Orchestrating Distributed Services with the Aruba CX 10000 Switch (ODSACX10KS) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

CX 10000 Product Overview
  • Understanding the Challenge
  • Identifying the Solution
  • Three main components of CX 10000
  • Physical Product Specifications
  • Product Details
  • Key Attributes
Installation and Setup of Aruba Fabric Composer and AMD Pensando PSM
  • Hardware Requirements
  • Supported Platforms
  • Aruba Fabric Composer Licensing
  • PSM Deployment
    • PSM User Authentication Policy
    • Create PSM Users with appropriate roles
    • DSS Configuration
Aruba Fabric Composer Overview and Navigation
  • Data Center Networks Overview
  • Aruba Fabric Composer key features and benefits
  • CX Portfolio Orchestrated by Aruba Fabric Composer
  • Understanding Fabrics
  • Aruba Fabric Composer Navigation
    • Menu bar and Icons
    • Customizing Dashboard
    • Configuration, Maintenance and Visualization Menu
    • User Management, System Settings and Backup
Managing Network Services with Aruba Fabric Composer
  • Switch Management
    • Switch Actions
    • Editing Switch Config
    • Switch Ports
    • Switch Upgrade
  • NTP Configuration
  • DNS Workflow and Configuration
  • VSX Configuration
  • Leaf & Spine
    • L2 Leaf-Spine Underlay
    • L3 Leaf-Spine Overlay
  • Creating and Assigning VLANS
  • Creating IP Interfaces
  • Provisioning EVPNs
Managing Security with Aruba Fabric Composer
  • Stateful versus Stateless Firewalls- What’s the difference?
  • Building Policy
    • Policy Building Blocks (Service Qualifiers, Applications, Endpoint Groups and Rules)
    • Policy Direction
  • 3rd Party Integrations
    • VMWare vSphere, Nutanix, HPE SimPlivity etc…
  • Aruba Fabric Composer and Pensando PSM Integration
  • Virtual Routing and Forward (VRF)
  • PVLANs and Micro segmentation
AMD Pensando PSM Overview and Navigation
  • PSM Key Terms
  • PSM Object Model
  • PSM Menus and Navigation
    • Dashboard
    • System menu navigation
    • Tenants menu navigation
    • Workload navigation
    • Monitoring menu navigation
    • Search function
  • Server Certificate
  • API Capture
  • Configuration Snapshots
Managing Security with AMD Pensando PSM (Brownfield)
  • Firewall Policy Functionality and Configuration
    • Firewall Profile
    • VSX and Firewall High Availability
    • Network Security Policy
    • Understanding Firewall Policy Scaling Profiles
    • Enable/ Disable Individual Firewalls
  • Apps
Network Monitoring
  • Aruba Fabric Composer
    • Visualization Hosts
    • Network
    • Statistics Visualization
    • Firewall Policy Logs
    • Firewall Profiles
  • AMD Pensando PSM
    • Dashboard and DSS Health
    • Firewall Export Policies
    • Firewall Profiles
    • Firewall Logs
    • Alerts, Events and Audit Events
    • Metric Charts