CCNP Data Center -350-601 DCCOR Implementing and Operating

Explore the basics of OSPFv2 and OSPFv3, compare IPv4 and IPv6 routing, and learn core configuration and verification tasks to build confidence in inter-domain routing.

Explore ospf area types, and how summary and external LSAs propagate. Learn to originate and force a default route with default-information originate.

Configure ospf on a Nexus switch with process id 100, make vlan ten and twenty passive, enable ospf on uplink interfaces and loopback, verify neighbors and routes in area zero.

Perform a lab on OSPFv3 part 02 with five routers, verify IPv6 interfaces, enable IPv6 unicast routing, examine area zero topology, and validate prefixes and routing information across devices.

Perform a hands-on BGP basic lab establishing iBGP and eBGP relationships per the diagram. Configure neighbors and loopback-based sessions, then verify with debug ip bgp.

Explore protocol independent multicast (pim) concepts, including dense and sparse modes, rendezvous point, and flag and prune for bandwidth-efficient multicast.

Configure HSRP on spine switches by creating vlan interfaces, assigning ip addresses, and setting group IDs, preemption, and priorities to designate a primary and secondary spine.

Bundle ports to form a port channel and achieve higher throughput, with per-application load balancing, while configuring LCP/LACP dynamically or manually and ensuring matching speed and duplex.

Configure a layer 2 EtherChannel lab with LACP, set spanning tree priorities for VLAN 10 and 20, create port channels 100 and 200, and configure trunk links with management IP routes.

Understand how VPC creates a dual-device, straight-line topology to prevent Spanning Tree blocking and maximize bandwidth in data center networks, including VPC domain, peers, member ports, and peer links.

Explain vxlan encapsulation, wrapping an inner payload with vxlan, udp, and outer headers. Note the vni enables 16 million segments and the udp destination port is 4789.

Configure a vxlan tunnel inside an overlay, set up l2 and l3 vni, and define vxlan tunnel endpoints using loopback1, with bgp for host reachability and verification across leaf devices.

Configure EVPN and SVI across leaf and border leaf switches, including VPN route distinguishers, route targets, and route maps for direct routes with anycast gateway fabric forwarding.

Configure host and access interfaces for VPC and VPC peer link, enabling port channels 101 and 100, setting VLAN 101 and 102, and validating connectivity across leaves and keepalive.

Configure external BGP between the border leaf and the outside router, establishing the BGP relationship. Define AS 65002 on the border leaf, advertise 3.0 network, and verify IPv4 unicast sessions.

Verify full connectivity with a ping test between servers, then confirm BGP prefix filtering on the leaf switch and demonstrate basic access control via the border leaf switch.

Analyze packet flow for unicast, multicast, and broadcast, and understand the ACA forwarding component and related protocols. Review ACA endpoint, overlays, and a consolidated two-hour video covering the section.

Define the ACI endpoint as a Mac with zero or more IPs, including Mac plus IP. Explain local versus remote endpoints and how leaf learning and destination queries support communication.

Understand endpoint learning for local and remote endpoints, including how MAC and IP addresses are learned, stored, and how L2 bridging vs L3 routing influence lookups and cache entries.

Adapt projects through iterative analyze, plan, design, build, test, and operate cycles, ensuring designs accommodate changing customer requirements, growth, and technology innovations in cloud-scale data center contexts.

Explore infrastructure as a service, where providers manage virtualization, servers, storage, and networking while you run applications; learn AWS regions, availability zones, and core IaaS services like EC2 and S3.

Explore public, private, and hybrid cloud concepts, including Cisco cloud services, and analyze risks like data loss and data breach, plus control challenges and cost implications.

Explore Cisco intercloud connections and the cloud fabric platform uniting private and public clouds with secure channels. Learn BYOD, IoT, and big data management in this framework.

Explore how the cloud meter in a cloud software stack receives notifications from the cloud orchestra, measures resource usage, and supports chargeback reports and billing plans.

Explore OpenStack, the open source cloud platform for public and private clouds, and learn core services like identity, networking, compute, storage, web-based dashboard, and orchestration.

Explore hardware upgrades in data center networks with EPLD, covering downtime planning, upgrade steps, line card and supervisor upgrades, fabric and power supply considerations, and lifecycle approvals.

Configure syslog in the lab by creating log sources, definition groups, and destinations, then enable smart call home and set severity levels to collect and route alerts.

Demonstrates configuring SNMP for out of band management in a data center fabric, including creating filters, contracts, and an SNMP policy and profile in a lab.

Add a remote location, configure a configuration export policy, enable encryption, and verify backups and export history in the lab setup.

Explore infrastructure monitoring protocols in section 1.9, including Night Fluence fan, via five upcoming videos covering configuration, flexible neck floor, ban or suspension, and related lab work in module one.

Learn to configure flexible netflow by setting the exporter version, creating a flow record with match and application options, collecting data, and applying a monitor on interfaces.

Capture data plane traffic with span, rspan, and erspan to copy packets to a destination for analysis in Wireshark; configure source, destination, and remote or encapsulated span.