Detailed Course Outline
Course Introduction
Mist Wired Assurance Overview
- Describe Mist overview
- Define the Wired Assurance solutions and supported devices
- Administer a Mist Account
Mist Wired Assurance, Day Zero—Provision
- Describe the integration workflow
- Explain greenfield provisioning and review the ZTP processes
- Explain brownfield provisioning
- Describe telemetry collection
- Lab 1: Onboarding Switches
Mist Wired Assurance—Virtual Chassis
- Describe the Virtual Chassis
- Describe forming a Virtual Chassis using Mist’s VC wizard
- Describe forming a Virtual Chassis manually
- Describe modifying a Virtual Chassis
- Describe monitoring a Virtual Chassis
Mist Wired Assurance, Day One—Deployment
- Describe the configuration options available from Mist to manage all, some, or single switches
- Lab 2: Managing Switches and Templates
Mist Wired Assurance, Day One—Configuration
- Define the Mist configuration and template options
Configuration Scalability Use Cases
- Describe the site variables use case
- Describe the dynamic port configuration use case
- Describe the select switches use case
- Describe the bulk upload of switch configurations
Mist Wired Assurance, Day Two—Operations
- Describe Wired Assurance SLEs and their classifiers
- Describe Alerts and Events
- Describe Switch Insights
- Describe Switch Utilities
- Lab 3: Mist Utilities
Wired Clients
- Explain the operation of Mist Wired Clients
- Discuss Wired Client Insights
Campus Fabric Architectures
- Describe a traditional Campus network design
- Explain the need for a new architectural design
- Describe Layer 3-based campus network designs
VXLAN Overview
- Describe Layer 2 tunneling
- Explain VXLAN functionality
- Describe VXLAN gateways
EVPN-VXLAN
- Describe EVPN features
- Explain EVPN operations
- Describe EVPN and VXLAN for data plane encapsulation
Mist Campus Fabric Deployment—EVPN Multihoming
- Describe the campus fabric deployments available in Mist
- Deploy an EVPN-multihoming fabric using Mist
- Lab 4: EVPN Multihoming Fabric
Mist Campus Fabric Deployment—Core Distribution
- Deploy a Mist campus fabric-core distribution
Group-Based Policy and Microsegmentation
- Explain network segmentation
- Explain GBP and Microsegmentation
- Configure GBP in Mist
Mist Campus Fabric Deployment–IP Clos
- Deploy a Mist campus fabric-IP Clos
- Lab 5: Campus Fabric IP Clos – 3-Stage