Dell - PowerSwitch Data Center Implementation and Administration

About this course

Implement Dell PowerSwitch in the data centre. You will learn data centre networking and traffic flows, perform basic switch setup, and configure and troubleshoot VLANs, Spanning Tree Protocol, link aggregation groups and port channels.

What you'll learn

• Describe networking technologies and data flows found in the data center environment.
• Perform basic switch setup tasks.
• Describe, configure, and troubleshoot VLANs.
• Explain the importance of Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), and then configure, verify, and troubleshoot the feature.
• Describe static and dynamic Link Aggregation Groups (LAG).
• Configure and troubleshoot port channel configuration issues.
• Configure discovery protocols and interpret Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) output.
• Demonstrate familiarity with IP subnetting and configure static routes.
• Explain, Configure, and validate Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing.
• Explain, configure, and validate Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and Equal-cost multi-path routing (ECMP).
• Describe, configure, and validate Virtual Link Trunking (VLT).
• Configure and validate Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) and list use cases.
• Configure uplink failure detection and explain what it is used for.
• Implement Policy based routing (PBR).
• Configure and validate Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF).
• Describe and configure security features including Access Control List (ACL), Port Security, and Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA).
• Explain the need for Quality of Service (QoS) and configure for a data center environment.
• Configure a switch to function as a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server or relay agent.
• Differentiate between Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Protocol-Independent Multicast PIM and configure into an existing multicast environment.

Curriculum

Who it's for

Network engineers working with Dell data centre switching.

Before you start

• The pre-requisite for this course is that, the student must have completed the Associate course -Dell EMC PowerSwitch Concepts and Features.