Cisco SD-WAN (Viptela) Training – Build Networking Career

Harness the vManage management plane to centralize configuration, monitoring, and orchestration with a graphical user interface. Create templates and push policies across devices while monitoring telemetry for proactive network performance.

Explore how the Cisco sd-wan control plane uses vsmart and vbond to securely authenticate devices, distribute routing and security policies via omp, and manage vpn access for edge devices.

Explore how the data plane in Cisco sd-wan forwards user traffic across sites using vEdge and cEdge devices, enforcing policies from Vsmart and Vmanage with tlocs and overlays.

Learn how the underlay provides basic ip connectivity for sd-wan, carries traffic between sites via mpls, broadband, or dedicated internet access, and why ip reachability enables reliable overlay performance.

Explore how the overlay network in SD-WAN securely connects sites over the underlay, distributes control, data, and service routes via OMP, and enforces policies across all sites.

Identify how tlocs define transport connections on edge routers and how overlays enable path selection based on latency, jitter, and packet loss for resilient SD-WAN traffic.

Explore how transport security protects SD-WAN traffic with IPsec tunnels, ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and edge device authentication through certificates and keys, while DTLS secures control plane signaling over UDP.

Discover how policy types and policy architecture govern traffic in Cisco SD-WAN, including centralized and localized policies, forwarding decisions based on SLA metrics, and service policies.

Identify application traffic with deep packet inspection and application lists, then apply policies and select the best path using latency, jitter, and bandwidth in Cisco SD-WAN (Viptela).

Learn how sd-wan service chaining directs traffic through firewalls, load balancers, and optimizers via on-premise and virtual appliance integration, cloud and edge deployments, guided by policy.

Onboard a new edge device by authenticating it with a CA-issued certificate, connecting via Vbond to Vmanage and Vsmart, then exchanging and validating certificates to push configuration templates and policies.

Define and apply SD-WAN templates to achieve consistent, modular device configurations, using feature templates for interface, routing, VPNs, and security, and inheritance to propagate changes across device templates.

Plan software and policy lifecycles with versioned images, staged rollouts, testing, and rollback plans, so policy changes are reviewed, tracked, and the network remains secure and auditable.

Authenticate every device and session, enforce centralized policies, and monitor for anomalies in a zero-trust sd-wan model with segmentation, end-to-end encryption, and secure overlays.

Integrate sd-wan with cloud security and sase to enable direct cloud access with low latency and consistent policy enforcement, while cloud on ramp optimizes connectivity to the cloud.

Analyze how devices generate logs and telemetry—syslog, events, and performance metrics—to support visibility, security, and compliance. Apply log management and data retention principles under GDPR, HIPAA, and related regulations.

Learn how vManage assurance collects device telemetry, analyzes health and service quality, and presents dashboards for per-path, per-site performance, alerts, and root-cause insights.

Troubleshoot sd-wan issues using a four-layer flow: underlay health first (reachability, latency, jitter, packet loss), then overlay tunnels and routing, then policy rules and conflicts, then application performance metrics.

Learn to interpret common SD‑WAN alerts, including control plane down, tloc flap, and high loss, and apply a correlated troubleshooting workflow to assess underlay, overlay, policies, and application impact.

Design branch networks by size, applying patterns for small, medium, and large sites to balance redundancy, edge device placement, and central versus local policies.

Explore data center and cloud connectivity patterns for sd-wan deployments, including hub and spoke, dual hub, direct cloud breakout, and cloud transit, with their latency, security, redundancy, and complexity tradeoffs.

Ensure high availability and scalability in sd-wan by deploying multiple vmanage, vsmart, and vbond instances and using active, active, and active standby patterns to prevent traffic loss.

Plan a phased migration from legacy WAN to SD-WAN with coexistence alongside MPLS, validating connectivity, security, and performance at checkpoints while gradually shifting traffic and reducing downtime.