This course teaches you how to implement and operate enterprise-level Aruba campus switching solutions. Hand-on labs give you experience with ArubaOS-Switches, including securing access, redundancy technologies such as Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP), link aggregation techniques including Link Aggregation Protocol (LACP) and switch virtualization with HPE’s Virtual Switching Framework (VSF). You will also learn to configure dynamic routing with Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), network optimization via Quality of Service (QoS), IP multicast routing leveraging Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM), and protecting the network using Access Control Lists (ACLs). This course is approximately 30% lecture and 70% hands on lab exercises.
After you successfully complete this course, expect to be able to:
Implement spanning tree protocol and loop protections
Ensure redundancy for a network’s default gateway by configuring VRRP on Aruba switches
Implement and manage an VSF fabric
Deploy ArubaOS switches in single-area and multi-area OSPF systems
Use Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) to optimize forwarding of multicasts within VLANs
Implement PIM-DM to route multicast traffic
Establish and monitor BGP sessions between your routers and ISP routers
Define ACLs and identify the criteria by which ACLs select traffic
Configure ACLs on ArubaOS switches to select given traffic
Implement 802.1X on ArubaOS switch ports
Configure captive portal authentication on ArubaOS switches to integrate them with an Aruba ClearPass solution
Configure tunneled-node on ArubaOS switches
Configure ArubaOS switches to select traffic, apply the appropriate QoS marking, and place the traffic in the proper priority queues
Implement DHCP snooping and ARP protection to defend networks against DHCP exploits, ARP snooping, and ARP poisoning attacks
Implement the proper port security measures for various use cases
Implement connection rate filtering to provide a first layer of protection against viruses and worms
Target audience
Typical candidates for this course are IT Professionals who will deploy and manage networks based on HPE’s ArubaOS-Switches.
Prior knowledge
Configuring Aruba OS Switching Level 1
Detailed content
Introduction to Aruba Solutions
Describe market trends that are leading companies to implement a digital workplace
Describe how the Mobile First Network from Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, delivers the digital workplace
Data Link Layer Redundancy Technologies
Compare RPVST+ with RSTP and MSTP
Implement spanning tree protocol and loop protections
Describe how Unidirectional Link Detection (UDLD) and Device Link Detection Protocol (DLDP) detect and handle unidirectional links
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
Ensure redundancy for a network’s default gateway by configuring VRRP on Aruba switches
Establish load-balancing of active routing in several different ways
Use best practices for implementing VRRP with MSTP
Aruba Backplane Stacking and Advanced Virtual Switch Framework (VSF)
Describe the three topologies supported with backplane stacking and the roles members play in the stack
Explain how backplane stacking handles stack fragments
Implement and manage an VSF fabric
Describe what a split VSF stack is and configure the mechanisms designed to detect and remedy this problem
Advanced Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Deploy ArubaOS products in single-area and multi-area OSPF systems
Use area definitions and summaries to create efficient and scalable multiple area designs
Advertise routes to external networks in a variety of OSPF environments
Promote fast, effective convergence during a variety of failover situations
Use virtual links as required to establish non-direct connections to the backbone
Implement OSFP authentication
Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)
Use Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) to optimize forwarding of multicasts within VLANs
Describe the differences between IGMP and IGMP snooping