Course Overview
Aruba Fabric Composer allows a network administrator to orchestrate data center fabrics using a guided, step-by-step approach. Aruba Fabric Composer applies best practice configurations and ensures a fast and error-free deployment. This course will help a student understand and use Aruba Fabric Composer in a datacenter environment.
Who should attend
Network engineers with 2-3 years of experience that need to design, manage and troubleshoot data center networks.
Prerequisites
Aruba highly recommends learners have a networking knowledge equivalent to the Aruba Certified Switching Professional (ACSP) certification. Additionally, knowledge of VXLAN and MP-BGP technologies and configuration are recommended.
Course Objectives
After you successfully complete this course, expect to be able to:
- Describe Aruba Fabric Composer features and functions
- Install, operate and manage Aruba Fabric Composer
- Manage Switches with Aruba Fabric Composer
- Create AOS-CX VSX pairs and VSF stacks
- Create a layer 2 data center fabric
- Create a layer 3 / leaf-spine fabric with a VXLAN overlay and an EVPN control plane
- Integrate with Aruba NetEdit, HPE Servers using ILO Amplifier, and VMware vSphere
Course Content
Aruba Fabric Composer Introduction
- Data Center Network introduction
- Data Center design
- Aruba Fabric Composer (AFC) fabrics
- AFC integration with multiple platforms
Installing Aruba Fabric Composer
- Install options
- Hardware requirements
- AFC install using OVA
- AFC install using ISO
- Licenses
Operation and Administration
- Graphical user interface
- User creation
- LDAP integration
- Logs and troubleshooting
Switch Management
- Discovery
- Configuration
- Management
- Monitoring
- Upgrades
AOS-CX Virtualization and Stacking
- Virtualization technologies
- VSX
- VSF
Leaf-Spine Introduction
- L2 Leaf-Spine
- L3 Leaf-Spine
EVPN
- Underlay and overlay concepts
- Configure a data fabric with EVPN overlay
Integration with HPE Aruba
- Integrating AFC with HPE products
- Key advantages of watch integration
VMware Integration
- Integration with VMware products and solutions
- AFC integration benefits to VMware vSphere, SDDC and NSX-T
Nutanix Prism Integration
- Integrate AFC and Nutanix Prism and its benefits
Rest API
- Rest API operations and methods
- AFC API Explorer
- External resources for AFC automation
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