The Fast-Track Guide to VXLAN BGP EVPN Fabrics

Chapter 1: Introduction to Spine and Leaf Topologies

Chapter Goal: Get the audience familiarized with the concepts and introduce them to the foundational aspects of software defined networking and BGP EVPN for the Data Center which drives today's major cloud computing environments.

No of pages: 30- 40 Pages

Sub -Topics

 1.   Spine and Leaf Topology Advantages.

 2.   Underlay Networking

 3.   Overlay Networking

 4.   Spine and Leaf Fabric Traffic flow

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Chapter 2:  Logical Components of Spine and Leaf Architecture

Chapter Goal: Review one by one each logical component and its role in the VXLAN BGP EVPN fabric

No of pages: 50 pages

Sub - Topics  

1.   Broadcast, Unknow Unicast and Multicast (BUM)

2.   OSPF Point-to-Point for underlay - Option 1

3.   IS-IS Point-to-Point for underlay - Option 2

4.   Multicast (PIM Sparse) and Rendezvous Points (RPs)

5.   BGP L2VPN EVPN Address Family

  Chapter 3:  Encapsulating Layer2 over Layer3 with VXLAN

Chapter Goal: Discuss the main aspect of VXLAN and how it solves the performance and scalability issues of STP

No of pages: 20 pages

Sub - Topics: 

1.   VTEP and VTEP (NVE) Interface

2.   EVPN Route-Target

3.   L2VNI and L3VNIs

      4.   VXLAN packet flow

   

 

  Chapter 4: VXLAN Fabric Features Chapter Goal: Review the available fabric features in VXLAN BGP EVPN which provides data center class virtualized switching and routing capabilities. No of pages: 20

Sub - Topics:

1.   Fabric Anycast Gateways  

2.   Multi-tenancy with VRF's.

3.   BGP IPv4 Unicast Address Family

4.   Route Leaking between VRF's.

 

 

Chapter 5: VXLAN Fabric to External Networks Chapter Goal: Discuss how we can integrate a VXLAN Spine and Leaf Fabric to an external network by designating border leaf's. No of pages: 20 pages

Sub - Topics:

1.    Route Redistribution from OSPF to BGP IPv4

2.    Route Redistribution from BGP IPv4 to OSPF

3.    Dynamic Routing protocols under VRFs (or VRF Lite).

4.    Default Route Advertisement.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 6: VXLAN Fabric Topology Designs

 Chapter Goal: Discuss the VXLAN Architecture design types available for each required case.

No of pages:  15 pages

Sub - Topics:

1.                VXLAN MultiPod

2.                VXLAN MultiSite and Border Gateway Leafs (BGW)

3.                VXLAN Ingress Replication (Head-End)

 

Chapter 7: VXlan Fabric Configuration Templates.

Chapter Goal: Sample configuration templates to deploy different VXLAN