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Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Power Workshop (SDWAN-PW3)

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  • Content

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This SD-WAN Power Workshop is technical delivery with hand on labs that provides essential skills to personnel involved in deploying Cisco® Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) solution. It covers key Cisco SD-WAN components such as vManage, vSmart, vEdge and vBond.

In this training workshop you will learn how to deploy, manage, and operate a secure SD-WAN fabric using IOS XE Cisco SD-WAN products. The course also covers how to configure, operate, and monitor overlay routing across the Cisco SD-WAN network. 

How you’ll benefit
This class will help you learn to use Cisco SD-WAN to:

  • Establish transport-independent WAN for lower cost and higher diversity
  • Meet SLAs for business-critical and real-time applications
  • Provide end-to-end segmentation for protecting critical enterprise compute resources
  • Extend seamlessly into the public cloud
  • Optimize the user experience for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications

Who should enroll
Enterprise network system installers

  • System integrators
  • System administrators
  • Network administrators
  • Solutions designers

Course Objectives
After taking this course, you should be able to:

  • Identify the various network elements of the Cisco SD-WAN solution.
  • Deploy WAN Edge routers.
  • Create templates to aid in the deployment and operation of the Cisco SD-WAN network.
  • Configure and verify Cisco SD-WAN overlay routing.
  • Create simple policies to control traffic flow through the Cisco SD-WAN fabric.

Course Prerequisites
Before taking this course, you should have the following knowledge and skills:

  • Strong understanding of enterprise WAN design
  • Strong understanding of routing protocol operation, including interior and exterior routing protocol operation
  • Familiarity with Transport Layer Security (TLS) and IP Security (IPsec)

Duration

3 Days

Module 1: Cisco SD-WAN Introduction

  • Introduction and Background
  • SD-WAN Concepts
  • Solution Architecture Overview

Module 2: Cisco SD-WAN: Control Plane

  • Deploying SD-WAN Control Plane
  • SD-WAN Router Establishes Control Connection with vBond
  • Devices and Controllers Identities
  • Establishing the Control Plane
  • Cisco SD-WAN Control Plane Overlay Management Protocol (OMP)
  • Troubleshooting Control Connections

Module 3: Cisco SD-WAN: Data Plane

  • Establishing the Data Plane

Module 4: Templates

Module 5: Policy Framework

  • Control Policies
  • Building, Applying, and Processing Centralized Control Policies
  • Control, Data, Application Aware, VPN Membership, cFlowd, and Security Policies
  • Central and Local Control Policy
  • Central and Local Data Policy
  • Application Aware Policy
  • Creating a Centralized Policy
  • VPN Membership Policies
  • cFlowd Policy
  • Security Policies
  • Application Quality of Experience

 Lab Outline

  • Lab 0: Access the Lab Devices
  • Lab 1: Onboard vSmart Controller
  • Lab 2: Prepare a vEdge Router for Onboarding
  • Lab 3: Prepare a cEdge Router for Onboarding
  • Lab 4: Add vEdge to vManage Inventory
  • Lab 5: Configure and Deploy vEdge Router Control-Plane
  • Lab 6: Configure and Deploy cEdge Router Control-Plane
  • Lab 7: Decommission a cEdge from vManage Inventory
  • Lab 8: Adding a cEdge to vManage Inventory
  • Lab 9: Configure and Deploy an Overlay Network
  • Lab 10: Exploring vManage GUI
  • Lab 11: Provision and Deploy vManage Feature Templates
    • Task 1: Deploy Feature-Based Device Template
  • Lab 12: Provision and Deploy vManage CLI Templates
  • Lab 13: Provision and Deploy Policies (Part 1)
    • Task 1: Modify Controller Distribution Using a Control Policy
    • Task 2: Create a Hub and Spoke Control Policy
  • Lab 14: Provision and Deploy Policies (Part 2)
    • Task 1: Create an Application Aware Routing Policy
    • Task 2: Create a Service Chain Policy
    • Task 3: Create Localized QOS Policies Using Feature Templates