
Introduction & VXLAN
01 Course Introduction
02 VxLan Overview
03 VxLan encapsulation
Basic Configuration
04 Topology & Underlay Configuration
05 Scenario 1. Establish iBGP Peer between Spine and Leaf Switches
06 Scenario 2. Configuring Multicast to Support BUM in VXLAN Fabric
VXLAN & EVPN
07 Scenario 3. Configuring VXLAN Fabric part 01
08 Scenario 3. Configuring VXLAN Fabric part 02
09 Scenario 4. Configuring BGP EVPN Control Plane
EVPN & Verification
10 Scenario 5. Verify VXLAN EVPN Control Plane Update
11 Scenario 6. Configure Border Leaf to External Entity
12 Final Verification
this lecture offers a vxlan overview, detailing underlay and overlay concepts, tunnel endpoints and udp encapsulation, and how evpn and ecmp scale leaf-spine data centers.
Understand vxlan terminology and how the mp-bgp evpn control plane coordinates endpoints and the overlay and the underlay, enabling multi-tenant isolation and cross data center connectivity.
Explore vxlan encapsulation, detailing inner and outer headers, the 24-bit vni enabling 16 million segments, and udp source and destination ports used in the control plane.
Learn the VxLAN traffic types—unicast, multicast, and anycast—and compare flood-and-learn with MP-BGP EVPN control plane learning for efficient data-center overlay.
Illustrates topology and underlay configuration for a spine-and-leaf network, detailing lookback and point-to-point IP schemes, IBGP sessions, and script-driven validation of routing information.
Learn to establish iBGP peering between spine and leaf switches in a vxlan mp-bgp evpn control plane, configure templates and neighbors for unicast, and verify full IGP relationships.
Configure multicast for BUM traffic in the vxlan fabric by enabling PIM, setting lookback interfaces and a rendezvous point on spines, while ARP is not supported on leaf switches.
Configure a VXLAN fabric with MP-BGP EVPN control plane, enable overlay, create VLFs, and map L3 and multicast across leaf switches.
Configure a vxlan fabric with mp-bgp evpn, create the nve interface across leaves, use a script for automated deployment, and verify bgp mappings and multicast group reachability.
Configure the BGP EVPN control plane for vxlan by enabling vpn/evpn on spine and leaf devices, applying templates, defining route targets, and configuring import/export and community settings.
verify vxlan evpn control plane update using mp-bgp; configure leaf and servers, set ip addresses, verify neighbor sessions, end-to-end ping, and confirm routes, mac IP, and encapsulation.
Configure the border leaf to an external entity, connect the van router and servers, assign IPs, verify connectivity with ping, and prepare redistribution for end-to-end VxLAN reachability.
Demonstrate final verification by redistributing BGP to OSPF, creating and applying route maps, and validating end-to-end reachability across a VxLAN MP-BGP EVPN control plane.
Virtual Extensible Local Area Network (VXLAN) is an L2 overlay scheme on top of an L3 network, also described as an L2 in L3 tunnel. It runs over the existing networks and provides the means to stretch the L2 network. As a standardized overlay technology, multiple vendors have adopted VXLAN as a datacenter solution to provide scalability and allow layer 2 across IP network. MP-BPG EVPN as the VXLAN control plane protocol provides a robust scalable solution to overcome the limitation in VXLAN flood and learn mode. Only VMs within the same VXLAN segment can communicate with each other. Each VXLAN segment is identified by a 24 bit segment ID called VXLAN Network Identifier (VNI). This helps to overcome the 4094 VLAN scale limitation and enables extension to 224 segments. VXLAN uses BGP as its control plane for Overlay. It makes its forwarding decisions at VTEPs (Virtual tunnel end points) for L2 and L3. Forwarding happens based on MAC or IP learned via the control plane (MP-BGP EVPN) . VXLAN uses IGP, PIM and BGP as its underlay in the fabric.
This lab introduces students to the industry standard MP-BGP EVPN and Cisco implementation of VXLAN on NXOSv. Student will use virtual Nexus switches to implement MP-BGP EVPN VXLAN control plane. Upon completion of this lab, users will able to
• Manually configure BGP EVPN in a standard Spine-Leaf topology
• Use command line to verify VXLAN/BGP EVPN.