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This course is all about Datacenter Networking specially from the viewpoint of switching. The ultimate goal is to design datacenter networks using BGP EVPN and VXLAN. This requires solid understanding of switching and multicast. Hence this course is divided in to three separate courses of 12 hours. This is the Part-1 of the course and below is the high level agenda of the course.
1. What is a datacenter network? History and how it has evolved.
2. Datacenter network switching vs Campus Network Switching.
3. Switching Fundamentals. Layer-2 vs Multilayer Switching
4. ARP and its associated problems in Datacenter Networks
5. VLAN's stretching issues. Concept of Trunking.
6. SVI's and CEF
7. Why behind Spanning Tree. Is is still relevant in DC networks?
8. Can Spine and Leave topology eliminate STP
9. Gateway Redundancy (HSRP). Why behind Anycast Gateway?
10. Why behind Etherchannel.
11. Why behind Virtual Port Channel (VPC)
12. How physical and virtual servers connect to datacenter switches.
13. Nexus switching philosophy
14. Silent Hosts. What is that?