Lab Guides

Aruba will post lab guides as part of this message thread. These documents will guide you through some typical Aruba wired scenarios and technologies. Feel free to download them, implement them and then make changes, variations and improvements.

Objective: At the end of this workshop, you will be able to implement the fundamentals of deploying an OSPFv2 network based on Aruba CX Switches. A successful deployment will show IPv4 HostA and IPv4 HostB have connectivity over the OSPF fabric.

Materials: In the attachments you will find:

• Overview Video
• Lab Guide
• EVE-NG Lab Import File

aos-cx_simulator_-_deploying_ospf_eve-ng_lab.zip

aos-cx_simulator_-_deploying_ospf_lab_guide.pdf

Objective

At the end of this workshop, you will be able to implement the fundamentals of deploying an OSPFv2 network based on Aruba CX Switches. A successful deployment will show IPv4 HostA and IPv4 HostB have connectivity over the OSPF fabric.

Materials: In the attachments you will find:

• Overview Video
• Lab Guide
• EVE-NG Lab Import File

aos-cx_simulator_-_basic_bgp_eve-ng_lab.zip

aos-cx_simulator_-_basic_bgp_lab_guide.pdf

Lab Objective

This lab will enable the reader to gain hands-on experience with VRF and inter VRF route leaking (IVRL).

Materials: Attached you will find:

• Overview Video
• Lab Guide
• EVE-NG Lab (UNL ZIP File)

aos-cx_simulator_-_vrf_part_1_eve-ng_lab.zip

aos-cx_simulator_-_vrf_part_1_lab_guide.pdf

Objective

This lab will enable the reader to gain hands-on experience with VRF and Dynamic inter VRF route leaking (IVRL) with MP-BGP.

Materials: In the attachments you will find:

• Overview Video
• Lab Guide
• EVE-NG Lab Import File

aos-cx_simulator_lab_-_vrf_-_dynamic_ivrl_eve-ng_lab.zip

aos-cx_simulator_lab_-_vrf_-_dynamic_ivrl_lab_guide.pdf

Lab Objective

At the end of this workshop, you will be able to implement the fundamentals of deploying an OSPFv3 network based on Aruba CX Switches. A successful deployment will show IPv6 HostA and IPv6 HostB connectivity over the OSPFv3 fabric.

Materials: Attached you will find:

• Overview Video
• Lab Guide
• EVE-NG Lab (UNL ZIP File)

aos-cx_simulator_-_ospfv3_fundamentals_eve-ng_lab.zip

aos-cx_simulator_-_ospfv3_fundamentals_lab_guide.pdf

Lab Objective

At the end of this workshop, you will be able to implement the basic configuration to enable both OSPF and BGP. The main goal is to ensure a successful deployment of OSPF and BGP routes and route redistribution.

Materials: Attached you will find:

• Overview Video
• Lab Guide
• EVE-NG Lab Import File

aos-cx_switch_simulator_-_ospf-bgp_redistribution_eve-ng_lab.zip

aos-cx_switch_simulator_-_ospf-bgp_redistribution_lab_guide.pdf

Lab Objective

The OSPF (Open Shortest Path Protocol) is one of the most popular routing protocols for IP Networks. It uses a link state routing (LSR) algorithm which is performed by every switch router mode in the network. OSPF leverages areas and it is these area concepts that form the basis of the LAB which introduces the 'Backbone area', 'Regular Areas' including Stub areas and not so stubby areas.

This lab should be considered as a basic OSPFv2 lab as an introduction to the configuration and operation of OSPF on Aruba CX switches. At the end of this workshop you will be able to understand and configure ospf areas, understand basic ospf metric calculations of routes, simple route redistributions and the use of stub areas and NSSAs (Not so stubby areas).

Materials: Attached you will find:

• Overview Video
• Lab Guide
• EVE-NG Lab Import File

aos-cx_switch_simulator_-_ospfv2_areas_basics_eve-ng_lab.zip

aos-cx_switch_simulator_-_ospfv2_areas_basics_lab_guide.pdf

Lab Objective

The OSPF (Open Shortest Path Protocol) is one of the most popular routing protocols for IP Networks. It uses a link state routing (LSR) algorithm which is performed by every switch router mode in the network.

This lab should be considered as a basic OSPFv2 lab as an introduction to the configuration and operation of OSPF on Aruba CX switches.

This workshop introduces OSPF features relating to the use of virtual links and options for using encrypted password between OSPF neighbors for authentication. Other configurations involve the use of the 'passive interface ' command and the 'default-information originate' command.

The list of features presented in this lab is a very small snapshot of the OSPF features available within the CX software and a comprehensive view of all OSPF features available can be found in the documentation guides from the Aruba Support Portal.

Materials: Attached you will find:

• Overview Video
• Lab Guide
• EVE-NG Lab Import File

aos-cx_simulator_lab_-_ospfv2_features_basic_eve-ng_lab.zip

aos-cx_simulator_lab_-_ospfv2_features_basic_lab_guide.pdf

Lab Objective

This lab will enable the reader to gain hands on experience with OSPF troubleshooting. This lab is preconfigured with 2 problems, you will use the troubleshooting flowchart to perform verification steps to identify and fix the problems.

Materials: Attached you will find:

• Overview Video
• Lab Guide
• EVE-NG Lab Import File

Lab Objective

This lab will enable the reader to gain hands on experience with OSPFv3 troubleshooting. This lab as shown in Figure 1 is preconfigured with 2 problems, you will use the troubleshooting flowchart to perform verification steps to identify and fix the problems.

Materials In the attachments you will find:

• Overview Video
• Lab Guide
• EVE-NG Lab Import File

aos-cx_simulator_lab_-_ospfv3_troubleshooting_eve-ng_lab.zip

aos-cx_simulator_lab_-_ospfv3_troubleshooting_lab_guide.pdf

Lab Objective

This lab will provide hands on experience with IPv6 addressing, static routing and SLAAC. Loopback, link local, unique local, global unicast, documentation addressing examples and route summarization are included as part of this lab to help understand these basics.

Materials In the attachments you will find:

• Overview Video
• Lab Guide
• EVE-NG Lab Import File

aos-cx_switch_simulator_-_ipv6_basics_eve-ng_lab.zip

aos-cx_switch_simulator_-_ipv6_basics_lab_guide.pdf

Lab Objective

This lab will provide hands on experience with IPv6 addressing and RIPng routing.

RIPng is an alternative routing protocol to OSPFv3/BGP, it is suitable for smaller networks and does not require an IPv4 router-ID unlike OSPFv3/BGP.

In this lab, you will:

• Provide IPv6 connectivity between the 2 hosts across the IPv6 network.
• Implement RIPng with Equal Cost Multi Pathing (ECMP) to correctly provide network connectivity to the Loopbacks on Switch2 and Switch3 from the hosts.

Materials In the attachments you will find:

• Overview Video
• Lab Guide
• EVE-NG Lab Import File

aos-cx_switch_simulator_-_ripng_eve-ng_lab.zip

aos-cx_switch_simulator_-_ripng_lab_guide.pdf

Lab Objective

This lab is identical to the OSPFv2 basic areas lab but leverages the OSPFv3 routing protocol.

The OSPF (Open Shortest Path Protocol) is one of the most popular routing protocols for IP Networks. It uses a link state routing (LSR) algorithm which is performed by every switch router mode in the network. OSPF leverages areas and it is these area concepts that form the basis of the LAB which introduces the 'Backbone area', 'Regular Areas' including Stub areas and not so stubby areas.

This lab should be considered as a basic OSPFv3 lab as an introduction to the configuration and operation of OSPF on Aruba CX switches.

At the end of this workshop you will be able to understand and configure ospfv3 areas, understand basic ospf metric calculations of routes, simple route redistributions and the use of stub areas and NSSAs (Not so stubby areas) with OSPFv3.

Materials In the attachments you will find:

• Overview Video
• Lab Guide
• EVE-NG Lab Import File

aos-cx_switch_simulator_-_ospfv3_areas_eve-ng_lab.zip

aos-cx_switch_simulator_-_ospfv3_areas_lab_guide.pdf

Lab Objective

This lab will enable you to gain hands on experience with OSPFv3 and both IBGP/EBGP IPv6 and provide IPv6 connectivity for hosts on different subnets through 2 different BGP AS networks.

Materials In the attachments you will find:

• Overview Video
• Lab Guide
• EVE-NG Lab Import File

aos-cx_switch_simulator_-_bgp_ipv6_eve-ng_lab.zip

aos-cx_switch_simulator_-_bgp_ipv6_lab_guide.pdf

Lab Objective

This lab will enable the reader to gain hands-on experience with configuring BFD on BGP and testing associated benefits on the network high-availability.

Materials In the attachments you will find:

• Overview Video
• Lab Guide
• EVE-NG Lab Import File

aos-cx_switch_simulator_lab_-_bfd-lab1_eve-ng_lab.zip

aos-cx_switch_simulator_lab_-_bfd-lab1_lab_guide.pdf

Lab Objective

This lab guide explains how to set-up BGP session to receive the full internet routes on AOS-CX OVA. This allows to practice on BGP understand the sizing requirement for ISP peering.

Important In this lab you will use 1 switch and 1 Linux VM.

Both Virtual Machines are hosted on an ESXi Server. This server could also be Hyper-V or KVM as well. It is strongly recommended to use a server with a powerful CPU (for instance: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v3 @ 2.60GHz)

Materials In the attachments you will find:

• Overview Video
• Lab Guide

aos-cx_switch_simulator_-_bgp_internet_lab_guide.pdf

Lab Objective

This lab will enable the reader to gain hands-on experience with BGP attributes and routing engineering for a multi-path case study of Internet access using one border gateway.

Materials In the attachments you will find:

• Overview Video
• Lab Guide
• EVE-NG Lab Import File

aos-cx_simulator_lab_-_bgp_ebgp_lb_lab1_eve-ng_lab.zip

aos-cx_simulator_lab_-_bgp_ebgp_lb_lab1_lab_guide.pdf