Description
Who should attend
The primary audience for this course is as follows:
- Systems engineers with a basic knowledge about Cisco SD-WAN solution willing to enhance their area of expertise.
Prerequisites
The knowledge and skills that a learner should have before attending this course are as follows:
- Knowledge about Cisco SD-WAN solution
- Training about SD-WAN solution
- Familiarity with WAN Networks
Course Objectives
Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives:
- Describe how to deploy SD-WAN
- Describe how SD-WAN orchestration works
- Configure SD-WAN environment
- Describe and deploy Zero-Touch Provisioning
- Describe and deploy service insertion in SD-WAN
- Describe and deploy Cloud On Ramp options
- Describe and deploy SD-WAN Multitenancy
- Describe Cisco SD-WAN vAnalytics uses and how it helps to improve the design or redesign process
- Discuss and apply greenfield and brownfield design best practices in several environments and with different technologies
- Describe Smart Licenses and their uses in SD-WAN
Outline: Cisco SD-WAN Design Clinic (SDWDES)
Module 1: Cisco SD-WAN Solution Review
- High-level Cisco SD-WAN Deployment models
- Cisco SD-WAN high availability solution
- Cisco SD-WAN Scalability
- Cisco SD-WAN Solution Benefits
Module 2: Cisco SD-WAN Orchestration and Operations Essentials
- Introduction
- vManage NMS
- vSmart Controller
- vBond Orchestrator
- Controller Resiliency Architecture
- Overlay Management Protocol (OMP)
- Cisco SD-WAN Circuit Aggregation Capabilities
- Secure Connectivity in Cisco SD-WAN
- Performance Tracking Mechanisms
- Application Discovery
- Dynamic Path Selection
- Performance Based Routing
- Dynamic Cloud Access
- Control Plane value
Module 3: Zero Touch Provisioning
- Overview
- User Input Required for the ZTP Automatic Authentication Process
- Authentication between the vBond Orchestrator and an Edge Router
- Authentication between the Edge Router and the vManage NMS
- Authentication between the vSmart Controller and the vEdge Router
Module 4: Cloud on Ramp
- Overview
- Deployment modes and requirements
- Cloud on Ramp configuration and monitoring
Module 5: Service Insertion
- Overview
- Service insertion configuration and monitoring
- Deploying SD-WAN Firewall Zone Based Firewall
- How to enable Zone Based Firewall
- How to protect your network using Zones and Policies
- Deploy ZBF through vManage GUI
- Allowing Different VPn’s to have communication
Module 6: Multi-Tenancy
- Multi-Tenant Mode
- Creating Tenants
- Adding Controller
- Adding Vedges
- RBAC
Module 7: Analytics and REST API
- Dashboard
- Data Analytics
- vManage REST API
- vAnalytics
- Importance and uses of monitoring data
- Benefits of Analytics in the design or redesign process
Module 8: Site Architecture and Deployment Models
- Site Capabilities
- Capacity Planning
- Scalability and High Availability considerations
- Application types and Topologies which support them
- vEdge Router / ISR SD-WAN Features and Capabilities
- vEdge form factors
- Greenfield and Brownfield projects
- Migration Considerations and Planning
- Control Plane value in deployment models
Module 9: Use Cases
- Guest Wi-Fi
- Bandwidth Augmentation
- CloudExpress
- Cloud on Ramp for IaaS and SaaS
- Critical Applications SLA
- Regional Secure Perimeter
- Direct Internet Access (DIA)
- Solution Redundancy
- IWAN with SD-WAN use cases
- Meraki with Cisco SD-WAN Viptela use cases
- Legacy technologies and SD-WAN
- Traditional transport technologies with SD-WAN solution integration
Module 10: Designing Cisco SD-WAN
- Design principles and Workflow
- Cisco Validated Models
- Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) and Cisco SD-WAN Deployment Guide
- SD-WAN: Cloud onRamp for SaaS Deployment Guide
- Capacity and Capabilities
- Deployment Scenarios
- Advanced features and license support
- Case Study analysis
- Design documentation
Module 11: Appendix: Smart Licensing Support
- Smart Licenses overview
- Account creation
- Account integration and synchronization with vManage
- License Downloading and installing
- ISR / SDWAN vEdge licensing options
- Demo
