The Fast-Track Guide to VXLAN BGP EVPN Fabrics (eBook)

Master the day-to-day administration and maintenance procedures for existing VXLAN fabrics. In this book you'll discuss common issues and troubleshooting steps to help you keep your environment in stable operation. The Fast-Track Guide to VXLAN BGP EVPN Fabrics is a guide for network engineers and architects who can't spend too much time learning everything about VXLAN. It has been created with the end goal of providing you with a straightforward approach to understand, implement, administer, and maintain VXLAN BGP EVPN-based data center networks. 

Using this book, you will understand Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) as a technology that combines network virtualization and service provider class network attributes to solve the performance and scalability limitations in a three-tier design. You will learn to combine multiple links and provide equal-cost multipathing to effortlessly scale speed requirements without being worried about potential loops.

You will learn VXLAN BGP EVPN configuration procedures with graphical step-by-step examples. You will be introduced to foundational concepts in VXLAN without the need to go over hundreds of documentation pages. This book is a clear and precise guide to implementing a spine and leaf architecture running with VXLAN. It explains how to perform day-to-day maintenance and administration tasks after implementing your first VXLAN fabric. It also explains how to integrate external devices such as firewalls, routers, and load balancers to VXLAN; how to leverage your VXLAN fabric; and how to create multiple tenant networks to secure your critical infrastructure. 

What You Will Learn 

• Discover the advantages of a VXLAN spine and leaf fabric over a traditional three-tier network design
• Work with the BGP L2VPN EVPN control plane VXLAN
• Examine the purpose of underlay and overlay in VXLAN
• Use multitenancy and tenant anycast gateways
• Connect your VXLAN fabric to external networks

Who This Book Is For

Senior network engineers, solutions architects, and data center engineers.

Rene Cardona, CCIEx2 - PCNSE is a truly passionate and dedicated IT professional with a major focus in the network security and datacenter realm. His experience is vastly diverse, from working with SMBs to performing large-scale datacenter infrastructure architecture designs for major corporations in the public and private sector. He has a pronounced emphasis on detail. You will not see him spending time with people that don't truly appreciate and have a passion for technology and are not willing to spend nights and weekends devoted to learning and working with it.

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Master the day-to-day administration and maintenance procedures for existing VXLAN fabrics. In this book you'll discuss common issues and troubleshooting steps to help you keep your environment in stable operation. The Fast-Track Guide to VXLAN BGP EVPN Fabrics is a guide for network engineers and architects who can't spend too much time learning everything about VXLAN. It has been created with the end goal of providing you with a straightforward approach to understand, implement, administer, and maintain VXLAN BGP EVPN-based data center networks. Using this book, you will understand Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) as a technology that combines network virtualization and service provider class network attributes to solve the performance and scalability limitations in a three-tier design. You will learn to combine multiple links and provide equal-cost multipathing to effortlessly scale speed requirements without being worried about potential loops. You will learn VXLAN BGP EVPN configuration procedures with graphical step-by-step examples. You will be introduced to foundational concepts in VXLAN without the need to go over hundreds of documentation pages. This book is a clear and precise guide to implementing a spine and leaf architecture running with VXLAN. It explains how to perform day-to-day maintenance and administration tasks after implementing your first VXLAN fabric. It also explains how to integrate external devices such as firewalls, routers, and load balancers to VXLAN; how to leverage your VXLAN fabric; and how to create multiple tenant networks to secure your critical infrastructure. What You Will Learn Discover the advantages of a VXLAN spine and leaf fabric over a traditional three-tier network designWork with the BGP L2VPN EVPN control plane VXLANExamine the purpose of underlay and overlay in VXLANUse multitenancy and tenant anycast gatewaysConnect your VXLAN fabric to external networksWho This Book Is ForSenior network engineers, solutions architects, and data center engineers.