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Course overview
During this 4-day instructor-led training course, students will use their existing theoretical WAN/LAN knowledge to complete hands-on activities. At the end of the course, student will possess the necessary skills to migrate from Cisco routing & switching environment to HP A-Series routing & switching environment and see the benefits of HP A-Series non-proprietary implementations.
Prerequisites
Basic fundamental LAN/WAN networking knowledge
Theoretical knowledge of the following WAN protocols & services:
Routing and Switching Fundamentals
PPP
RIP
OSPF
BGP
MPLS
QoS
ACLs
NAT
VRRP
IPv6
Audience
Cisco Certified Engineers (i.e., CCNAs, CCNPs,
CCIEs), Network and System Administrators
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Upon successful completion of this course, the students will have the demonstrated ability to migrate from Cisco routing/switching environment to HP A-Series routing/switching environment. Most particularly, they will master the deployment & configuration of the following protocols & services:
Configuring and designing HP A-Series LAN/WAN solutions
Differentiate the various routing/switching implementation between the two vendors
Realize the benefits of non-proprietary technologies
Troubleshooting
Benefits to you
This course supports the student's ability to:
Evaluate the student's theoretical as well as
practical LAN/WAN knowledge
Promotes student's ability in problem solving and
decision-making skills
Use a wide variety of skills that has been learned
throughout the course with a degree of accuracy to
properly design & deploy migration solutions from
Cisco to H3C/3Com
Interact with others in groups or teams in ways that
contribute to effective working relationships and
other achievement of goals
Course outline
Module 1: HP A-Series Routing & Switching Portfolio (Overview)
Describe the MSR Router Series models, capabilities, and flexible functionalities
Describe the key features of the HP A-Series Router Series
Describe the MSR Router Series models, capabilities, and flexible functionalities
Describe the key features of the MSR Router Series
Describe the MSR Router Series routers, including both LAN and WAN networking interfaces
Describe HP A-Series extensive switching portfolio
Describe the key features of the various switching products
Understand the wide variety of HP A-Series routing and switching portfolio
Differentiate the competitive advantages between HP A-Series & Cisco product line-up
Module 2: Basic Router Configuration
Describe the management interfaces in the MSR Series Router
Connect to a router using the console port
Explain the different views in the CLI
Save and delete working configurations
Use the history of previous commands
Understand the objectives of the lab that follows
Differentiate between 3Com & Cisco CLI command structure
Module 3: Introduction to Basic Switching
Understand how the following switching features are implemented in HP A-Series vs. Cisco:
Configure VLANs
VLAN Trunk Interface
Configure Aggregate Interface
Module 4: Advanced Switching
STP, RSTP and MSTP
Understand how the following advanced switching features are implemented in HP A-Series vs. Cisco o STP o RSTP o MSTP
Module 5: Routing Basics & RIP Overview
Understand how the following routing features are implemented in HP A-Series vs. Cisco:
Static Route
RIP Concepts
RIP configuration
Differentiate between 3Com & Cisco implementation
Module 6: OSPF Overview
Understand how basic OSPF routing protocol features are implemented in HP A-Series vs. Cisco:
Configure OSPF in single Area
List the display commands used for OSPF troubleshooting
Differentiate between 3Com implementation vs. Cisco
Module 7: Multi-Area OSPF & STUB Areas
Understand how advanced OSPF routing protocol features are implemented in HP A-Series vs. Cisco:
Multi Area OSPF
Configure OSPF in Multiple Areas Design
Configure Area type as Stub & NSSA
Verify OSPF Configurations
Module 8: Other Features, ACL, NAT, QoS & VRRP
Introduction to BGP and basic BGP implementation in HP A-Series vs. Cisco:
Differentiate between IGP & EGP
List the steps of BGP peering
Configure EBGP and IBGP
EBGP for Multihomed Customer
EBGP for Multihomed Customer
IBGP using loopback interfaces
Module 9: Border Gateway Protocol
Introduction to BGP and basic BGP implementation in HP A-Series vs. Cisco:
Differentiate between IGP & EGP
List the steps of BGP peering
Configure EBGP and IBGP
EBGP for Multihomed Customer
IBGP using loopback interfaces
Module 10: Basic Concepts of MPLS & L2VPN
Understand MPLS and how L2VPN is configured in HP A-Series as well as Cisco environment:
Introduction to MPLS
Benefits of MPLS
Terminology in MPLS
Forwarding Equivalence Class (FEC)
MPLS Label
MPLS Shim Header Structure
Label Switching Router (LSR)
Label Switched Path (LSP)
Structure of LSR, LIB and LFIB
Basic Concepts of MPLS Exchange of routing information
Basic Concepts of MPLS Exchange of Labels with Label Discovery Protocol (LDP)
MPLS Label Processing Example
MPLS Usage
Basic Concepts of MPLS L3 VPN Packet transmission through MPLS network of provider
Basic Concepts of MPLS L3 VPN Routes and Labels Exchanges -1
Basic Concepts of MPLS L3 VPN Routes and Labels Exchanges-2
Basic Concepts of MPLS L3 VPN Routes and Labels Exchanges-3
2547bis: Layer3 VPN
Layer 3 versus Layer 2
MPLS- Based Layer 2 VPNs
Martini Based – Layer2 VPN
P Router Configuration
PE-R2 Router Configuration
Verifying L2VPN
Cisco Configuration for L2VPN
Module 11: IPv6
Introduction to IPv6 and how the IPv4 to IPv6 migration is setup in HP A-Series vs. Cisco. The following ítems will be discussed:
