Arista Networking – Data Center Operations (DCOPS) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

CLOUDVISION OVERVIEW AND SETUP

CloudVision overview

  • Why CloudVision
  • Approaches to network automation
  • Introduction to CloudVision
  • Positioning CVP

CloudVision setup

  • CVP Clustering
  • CVP multi-node OVA installation
  • CVaaS initial onboarding
  • Upgrading
  • Backup and restore
  • Getting familiar with CVP interface
  • Profiles
  • Help center
  • License key management
  • LAB – Navigating CVP
CLOUDVISION PROVISIONING

Device registration

  • Connecting devices
  • Manual onboarding

Network provisioning

  • Containers
  • Configuration sources
  • Designed and running config
  • Configlets
  • Tasks and change control
  • Applying configlets to containers
  • Reconcile
  • LAB – Configlets
  • Snapshots and staging
  • Redesigned change control UI
  • Rollback
  • LAB – Snapshots
  • LAB – Change Control
  • Configlet builder
  • LAB – Configlet builder
  • Image repository

Zero touch provisioning

  • Zero touch provisioning (ZTP)
  • Deploying and onboarding vEOS to CVP using ZTP
  • Zero touch replacement (ZTR)
  • Replacing a device using ZTR
CLOUDVISION STUDIOS

Studios Overview

  • Introduction to Studios and tags
  • Workspaces
  • Studio deployment and execution
  • LAB – Using Studios
  • LAB – Clean up Studios

Studios in action

  • New Studios UI
  • Static configuration Studio
  • Management connectivity Studio
  • Software management Studio
  • Authentication Studio
  • Mirroring Studio
  • End to End provisioning with Studios
  • Provision new devices with ZTP and Studios
  • LAB – Static configuration Studio

Configuring L3LS DC Network with CVP Studios

  • Configuring L3LS using Studios
  • Configuring eVPN services, host interfaces and external networks using Studios
  • LAB – Building L3LS, eVPN and MLAG with Studios
  • LAB – Day 2 operations with Studios
MONITORING WITH CVP

Monitoring devices with CVP

  • Compliance overview
  • Device input power
  • CloudVision and DMF integration
  • 802.1x details in endpoint search

Dashboards

  • Dashboards Enhancements
  • Device connectivity health panel dashboard
  • Compliance counts dashboard
  • Syslog filters dashboard
  • Dashboard tabs layout
  • Exporting and importing dashboards

Events

  • Events & Event groups
  • Compliance events
  • Config sanity check events
  • PTP events
  • LAB – Dashboards and events
TOPOLOGY
  • Introduction to topology
  • Topology icons and settings
  • Custom topology hierarchies
  • User defined topology filters
  • PTP overlay in CVP topology
  • LAB – Topology
EOS OPERATIONS, UPGRADES, MONITORING AND TROUBLESHOOTING

EOS reloads and upgrades

  • Understanding EOS upgrades
  • Standard upgrade vs. smart system upgrade
  • Upgrading EOS with CLI
  • Upgrading EOS with CVP
  • MLAG ISSU upgrade and reload with CLI
  • Chassis upgrade and reload
  • MLAG upgrade and reload with CVP

EOS monitoring tools

  • SNMP
  • sFLOW
  • Watch and Diff commands
  • Latency Analyzer (LANZ)
  • Port mirroring
  • TapAgg

Advanced Event Management (AEM)

  • AEM – CLI scheduler
  • AEM – Event monitor
  • AEM – Event manager
  • LAB – AEM

Troubleshooting EOS hardware and software

  • System and software troubleshooting
  • SFP and physical errors
  • EOS health checks – CLI and CVP
  • Hardware troubleshooting
  • Memory and flash errors
  • Tcpdump and Iperf
  • Installing extensions
  • Recovery procedures