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Aruba OS-CX Switching Fundamentals 

Networking

HPE Networking

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

<ul><li>What is a network?</li><li>What is a Protocol?</li><li>OSI Reference Model</li><li>Encapsulation, frames, packets, segments</li><li>Layer 2 to Layer 7 headers</li><li>Media, cabling, Ethernet/wifi headers</li><li>Binary/Hex/Decimal theory and conversion</li><li>TCP/IP Stack (IP addressing &amp; Transport Protocols TCP/UDP)</li><li>Types of traffic: Unicast, Broadcast, Multicast</li></ul>

Network Fundamentals

<ul><li>Overview</li><li>Ethernet frames</li><li>IPv4 Header</li><li>TCP Header – Three-way Handshake</li><li>TCP Header – Sequence Numbers</li><li>TCP Header – Port Numbers</li><li>TCP Header</li><li>UPD Header</li></ul>

TCP/IP Stack

<ul><li>Networking devices: Switches, Routers, Multilayer Switches, APs, Mobility Controllers, Firewalls, Servers (HTTP, DHCP, DNS, Telnet, FTP)</li><li>2-Tier vs 3-Tier hierarchy</li><li>Switching Portfolio (AOS switches &amp; AOS-CX switches) is this introducing both portfolio on a couple of slide and few slides on AOS-CX hardware architecture, software architecture and intro to NAE high level.</li><li>Introduction to AOS-CX and feature set</li><li>Port numbering</li><li>Accessing Aruba OS-CX CLI</li><li>Prompt modes/levels and navigation</li><li>Context sensitive help</li><li>Show logs, configuration, interfaces, transceivers, flash, version</li><li>Hostname/interface name, enabling interfaces</li><li>Link Layer Discovery Protocol</li><li>ICMP and reachability testing tools: Ping and Traceroute</li><li>PoE (standards one slide and what we support and one or two slide on configuration and verifications.)</li></ul>

Basic Networking with Aruba Solutions

<ul><li>Broadcast/collision domains</li><li>VLAN benefits</li><li>VLAN creation</li><li>DHCP server configuration in switches (optional)</li><li>802.1Q tagging</li><li>Switchports vs. Routed ports</li><li>MAC address table</li><li>ARP table</li><li>Packet Delivery part 1</li></ul>

VLANs

<ul><li>Redundant network</li><li>L2 loops</li><li>802.1D</li><li>Common Spanning Tree</li><li>802.1s</li><li>802.1w overview</li><li>802.1w load balancing</li><li>802.1w region configuration</li></ul>

Spanning Tree Protocol

<ul><li>Static Aggregation</li><li>LACP</li><li>Load Balancing</li></ul>

Link Aggregation

<ul><li>Default Gateway</li><li>DHCP IP Helper Address</li><li>IP Routing Service</li><li>Inter-VLAN routing</li><li>Packet Delivery Part 2</li><li>Need for layer 3 redundancy</li><li>Introduction to VRF</li></ul>

IP Routing - Part 1

<ul><li>VRRP overview</li><li>VRRP basic operation</li><li>VRRP failover and preempt</li><li>VRRP and MSTP coordination</li></ul>

VRRP

<ul><li>Subnetting</li><li>CIDR</li><li>Static routes</li><li>Administrative Distance</li><li>Floating routes</li><li>Scalability issues</li></ul>

IP Routing - Part 2

<ul><li>IGP vs EGP</li><li>Distance Vector vs Link State</li><li>OSPF Router-ID and Hello Messages</li><li>Passive interfaces</li><li>States</li><li>DR and BDR</li><li>LSDB: LSA 1 and 2</li><li>Path selection and convergence</li><li>Using cost to manipulate routes</li></ul>

IP Routing - Part 3

<ul><li>Control Plane, Management Plane, and Data Plane</li><li>Introduction to Stacking technologies</li><li>Stacking Benefits</li><li>Centralized control and management plane</li><li>Distributed Data Plane and Distributed Link Aggregation</li><li>VSF</li><li>VSF requirements</li><li>VSF Link and member roles</li><li>VSF member IDs and port numbers</li><li>VSF Configuration</li><li>VSF Provisioning use cases</li><li>Tracing Layer 2 traffic: Unicast</li><li>Tracing Layer 2 traffic: Broadcast, Multicast, and Unknown Unicast</li><li>VSF Failover and OSFP Graceful-Restart</li><li>VSF Link failure without MAD</li><li>MAD</li><li>VSX Introduction</li></ul>

Stacking

<ul><li>OOBM port</li><li>Management VRF</li><li>Secure Management Protocols: AAA, SSH, HTTPS, RBAC</li><li>Radius-based management auth (VSA)</li><li>SNMP</li><li>Web interface</li><li>Configuration file management (Backup, restore, checkpoint and roll back)</li><li>Operating System image management (backup and restore)</li><li>Factory default/password recovery</li></ul>

Secure Management and Maintenance

<ul><li>Intro to NetEdit</li><li>NetEdit installation</li><li>Basic monitoring with NetEdit</li><li>AOS-CX Mobile App</li></ul>

AOS-CX Management tools

Microsoft Dynamics 365

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Explain Networking Fundamentals, describe & review the Aruba Switching portfolio with customers, describe & configure VLANs, explain IP Subnetting.