Orchestrating Distributed Services with CX 10000 Series (ODSACX10KS) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

CX 10000 Product Overview

• Understanding the Challenge
• Identifying the Solution
• Three main components of CX 10000
• Physical Product Specifications
• Product Details
• Key Attributes

Installation and Setup of Aruba Fabric Composer and AMD Pensando PSM

• Hardware Requirements
• Supported Platforms
• Aruba Fabric Composer Licensing
• PSM Deployment
  • PSM User Authentication Policy
  • Create PSM Users with appropriate roles
  • DSS Configuration

Aruba Fabric Composer Overview and Navigation

• Data Center Networks Overview
• Aruba Fabric Composer key features and benefits
• CX Portfolio Orchestrated by Aruba Fabric Composer
• Understanding Fabrics
• Aruba Fabric Composer Navigation
  • Menu bar and Icons
  • Customizing Dashboard
  • Configuration, Maintenance and Visualization Menu
  • User Management, System Settings and Backup

Managing Network Services with Aruba Fabric Composer

• Switch Management
  • Switch Actions
  • Editing Switch Config
  • Switch Ports
  • Switch Upgrade
• NTP Configuration
• DNS Workflow and Configuration
• VSX Configuration
• Leaf & Spine
  • L2 Leaf-Spine Underlay
  • L3 Leaf-Spine Overlay
• Creating and Assigning VLANS
• Creating IP Interfaces
• Provisioning EVPNs

Managing Security with Aruba Fabric Composer

• Stateful versus Stateless Firewalls- What’s the difference?
• Building Policy
  • Policy Building Blocks (Service Qualifiers, Applications, Endpoint Groups and Rules)
  • Policy Direction
• 3rd Party Integrations
  • VMWare vSphere, Nutanix, HPE SimPlivity etc…
• Aruba Fabric Composer and Pensando PSM Integration
• Virtual Routing and Forward (VRF)
• PVLANs and Micro segmentation

AMD Pensando PSM Overview and Navigation

• PSM Key Terms
• PSM Object Model
• PSM Menus and Navigation
  • Dashboard
  • System menu navigation
  • Tenants menu navigation
  • Workload navigation
  • Monitoring menu navigation
  • Search function
• Server Certificate
• API Capture
• Configuration Snapshots

Managing Security with AMD Pensando PSM (Brownfield)

• Firewall Policy Functionality and Configuration
  • Firewall Profile
  • VSX and Firewall High Availability
  • Network Security Policy
  • Understanding Firewall Policy Scaling Profiles
  • Enable/ Disable Individual Firewalls
• Apps

Network Monitoring

• Aruba Fabric Composer
  • Visualization Hosts
  • Network
  • Statistics Visualization
  • Firewall Policy Logs
  • Firewall Profiles
• AMD Pensando PSM
  • Dashboard and DSS Health
  • Firewall Export Policies
  • Firewall Profiles
  • Firewall Logs
  • Alerts, Events and Audit Events
  • Metric Charts