HP Core/Distribution Network Technologies Using ProVision Software, Rev. 10.41 (4706)
In this course, you will gain the knowledge and skills necessary to configure HP E-Series switches supporting network redundancy at Layer 2 and Layer 3, networks supporting IPv4 and IPv6, OSPFv2 and OSPFv3, and IP multicast supported network systems. Through hands-on labs, you will learn to configure E-Series ProVision Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) switches.
Certification:
- HP ASE - Network Infrastructure [2011]
- HP ASE - Wireless Networks [2011]
Skills Gained
- E-Series ProVision ASIC networking products and technologies
- Providing redundant links and default gateways with MSTP/VRRP
- Designing and implementing IPv4 networks
- Designing and implementing OSPFv2 routing
- Designing and implementing Layer 2 and Layer 3 QoS
- Designing and implementing IGMP, PIM-Sparse, and PIM-Dense
- Designing and implementing QinQ
- Designing and implementing IPv6, OSPFv3, and DHCPv6
Who Can Benefit
IT professionals who design and deploy SMB and enterprise-edge solutions based on HP technologies, including HP reseller systems engineers, customer IT staff, HP system engineers, and HP services field and call center support engineers
Prerequisites
- HP Switching and Routing Technologies
Syllabus
1. The Resilient, Adaptive Network
- Convergence
- Benefits of the "triple playnetwork
- Convergence industry trends
- IP telephony goals and design options
- HP networking convergence strategy
- Adaptive EDGE architecture
- Intelligent convergence
- HP networking
- Convergence technologies
- E-Series ProVision ASIC Switches
- Convergence features
- HP networking drives key IP telephony standards
- Customer benefits of nonstop switching
2. Providing Redundant Links and Gateways
- VRRP
- Planning for redundant default gateways
- VRRP with Spanning Tree
- Ensure persistent path between master and backup
- MSTP/VRRP redundancy solution
- Configure and monitor MSTP
- Define VLANs and assign ports
- Troubleshoot MST configuration
- Configure and monitor VRRP
- Choose virtual router numbering scheme
- Configure VRRP backup router
3. Designing and Configuring IP Networks
- Organizing users into VLANs
- Planning for the core-oriented solution
- Issues with the core-oriented strategy
- Implementing "control to the edge"
- IP routing review
- Edge routing
- Determine total number of required VLANs
- Assign user VLAN IDs
- Defining loopback interfaces
- Implementing edge routing
- Configuring loopback interfaces
- Enabling IP routing on the E3500
- Routing switches and broadcast domains
- Spanning tree and routed links
- Overlapping broadcast domains
- Impact of STP blocked links on IP routing
4. OSPF Routing in the Adaptive Network
- OSPF routing protocol
- Identifying and troubleshooting adjacency failure
- Multiple OSPF areas
- Area border routers (ABRs)
- Defining range summaries
- Providing additional resilience
- OSPF external routes
- OSPF area types
- Concurrent support for OSPF, RIP, and static routes
5. Delivering Quality of Service (QoS)
- Converged network requirements and challenges
- Impact of congestion on data traffic
- Prioritization techniques
- E-Series ProVision ASIC default QoS support
- Class of Service (CoS)
- Layer 2 marking: IEEE 802.1p priority field
- Queue scheduling
- Traffic marking by an end station
- Retaining priority between VLANs
- Configurable QoS policies
- QoS and the Adaptive EDGE architecture
- Layer 3 marking
- DiffServ compatibility with IP Precedence
- DSCP, traffic class, and queue mapping
- Prioritization over a WAN link
- Classification, marking, and scheduling
- Rate limiting on the ProVision ASIC switches
- QoS policies and untrusted domains
- Define policies and configure queues
- Enabling rate limiting
- Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
- Mandatory and optional TLVs
- IP telephony solution: 802.1X, LLDP, and LLDP-MED
- Configure multi-user 802.1X
6. Supporting IP Multicast
- Video bandwidth and compression
- Communication modes for video traffic
- Multiple unicast streams
- A single broadcast stream
- A single multicast stream
- IP multicast protocols
- Example using a single router
- Multicast addresses
- IGMP message types
- Multicast distribution tree
- Comparing PIM dense and sparse modes
- PIM sparse overview
- Enable IP multicast routing and PIM sparse
7. QinQ or Provider Bridging
- IEEE 802.1Q limitations
- QinQ (IEEE 802.1ad)
- QinQ VLAN types
- S-VLAN operation and configuration
- Configuring a provider switch for S-VLAN operation
- Mixed VLAN operation and configuration
- Configuring a provider switch for mixed VLAN operation
8. IPv6, OSPFv3, and DHCPv6
- IPv6 deployment
- ICMPv6 and neighbor discovery
- IPv6 autoconfiguration of addresses
- IPv6 security
- IPv6 QoS
- HP and IPv6
- IPv6 address basics
- IPv4 and IPv6
- IPv6 notation
- Interface ID
- Hierarchical addressing
- Simplified routing tables
- IPv6 address types
- Next-hop determination
- Router advertisement
- Address resolution
- IPv6 autoconfiguration
- IPv6 manual address configuration
- Disabling IPv6 on a VLAN
- IPv6 routing
- OSPFv3
- OSPFv2 vs. OSPFv3
- OSPFv3 interface numbering
- OSPFv2 and v3 packet headers
- Configuring OSPFv3 routing
- Configuring OSPFv3 on a routing switch
- OSPFv3 routing configuration
- OSPFv3 route display
- OSPFv3 interfaces
- OSPFv3 neighbors
- DHCPv6
- DHCPv4 and DHCPv6
- DHCPv6 header format and message types
- DHCPv6 and RA configuration flag settings
- DHCPv6 message exchange
- IPv6 address renewal
- DHCPv6 server-initiated configuration
- DHCPv6 client configuration
- DHCPv6 relay configuration
- IPv6 MLD snooping
- IPv6 transition mechanisms
- IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels
- ISATAP routing
- Teredo routing
