Fast Track for Deploying HPE FlexFabric Comware Technologies

Prerequisites

• This course is recommended for students who need to deploy HPE FlexFabric technologies based on Comware. It does not require completion of any previous HPE networking courses
• Network experience is required

Audience

This course is intended for network or systems administrators, network engineers, and consultants who plan to deploy HPE Comware 7 switches into a new or existing network.

Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction-SME

• Welcome to Fast Track for Deploying HPE FlexNetworkc Comware Technologies!
• Course schedule
• Introductions

Module 2: Basic Setup-SME

• Accessing the console of an HPE Comware switch
• Levels of access and privilege levels
• CLI introduction and navigation
• Basic configuration
• Interface configuration
• Troubleshooting

Module 3: Protecting Management Access

• Applying password protection to local and remote authentication
• Associating user roles with password and scheme authentication
• Implementing remote management with telnet, SSH, web, and SNMP access

Module 4: Management of Software and Configuration Files

• Understanding the boot up process of the HPE switches
• Understanding how to use the flash file system on the HPE switches
• Upgrading the operating systems on the HPE switches
• Managing configuration files on the HPE switches

Module 5: VLANs

• Reviewing VLANs and the various types of VLAN
• Understanding when to use each of the three VLAN port types
• Configure VLANs and assign IP addresses to VLAN interfaces
• Implementing basic routing on directly connected VLANs
• Verify connectivity within and between VLANs

Module 6: IP Services

• Implementing DHCP server and DHCP relay on Comware switches
• Implementing secure NTP on Comware switches
• Understanding and configuring basic logging options
• Implementing DNS to resolve names to addresses

Module 7: Spanning Tree Protocol

• Overview of pre-2004 IEEE 802.1D standard
• Overview of RSTP
• Overview of PVST+
• Overview and configuration of MSTP on Comware switches
• Configuration of STP security features on Comware switches

Module 8: Link Aggregation

• Reviewing problems with STP and load sharing with STP
• Introducing link aggregation
• Comparing and contrasting the different link aggregation types
• Configuring and verifying link aggregation on Comware switches

Module 9: IP Routing

• VLANs and routing
• Static routing
• Dynamic routing with RIP
• Dynamic routing with OSPF
• Single area OSPF configuration

Module 10: Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF)

• Understanding the technologies and concepts involving IRF
• Understanding the advantages that IRF provides
• Describing a split stack and how the Multi-Active Detection (MAD) protocol deals with this problem
• Configuring a simple IRF topology
• Verifying and troubleshooting an IRF topology

Module 11: Introduction to Intelligent Management Center (IMC)

• Understand the components of IMC
• Understand how to install IMC
• Understand how to access IMC
• Implement a basic configuration using IMC

Module 12: Access Control Lists (ACLs)

• Define ACL and identify the criteria by which ACLs select traffic
• Configure ACLs on HPE Comware based switches to select given traffic
• Apply static ACLs to interfaces to meet the needs of a particular scenario
• Examine an ACL configuration and determine the action taken on specific packets

Module 13: Quality of Service

• Configure HPE switches to honor the appropriate QoS marks applied by other devices
• Create a QoS policy that assigns a specified class of traffic to a priority queue
• Select and implement an appropriate strategy for queue scheduling
• Implement traffic policing policies that enforce the negotiated committed information rate (CIR), committed burst size (CBS), peak information rate (PIR), and excessive burst size (EBS) for a specified class of traffic
• Respond to congestion in advance by applying the appropriate traffic shaping and Weighted Random
• Early Detection (WRED) policies
• Determine the QoS mark that an HPE switch will assign to specific outbound traffic and, if necessary, adjust the mark

Module 14: Advanced Open Shortest Path First

• Deploy HPE products in single-area and multiple-area OSPF systems
• Use area definitions and summaries to create efficient and scalable, multiple-area designs
• Advertise routes to external networks in a variety of OSPF environments
• Promote fast, effective convergence during a variety of failover situations
• Use virtual links as required to establish nondirect connections to the backbone
• Implement OSFP authentication

Module 15: Exterior Border Gateway Protocol

• Establish and monitor eBGP sessions between your routers and Internet Service Provider (ISP) routers
• Advertise an IP block to multiple ISP routers
• Filter BGP routes as required for a dual-homed ISP connection
• Configure a BGP router to advertise a default route in OSPF or to redistribute and aggregate BGP routes, as appropriate

Module 16: IP Multicast

• Route multicast traffic using Protocol Independent Multicast-Dense Mode (PIM-DM) or Protocol
• Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM)
• Select and configure rendezvous points (RPs) based on particular environmental needs such as redundancy and efficient operation
• Minimize unnecessary multicast flooding
• Apply advanced controls such as source-specific multicasting (SSM) and administrative scopes to a PIM-SM deployment

Appendix A: Converged Infrastructure

• FlexFabric
• FlexCampus
• FlexBranch
• FlexManagement
• Software-Defined Networks (SDN)

Appendix B: Basic Network Design Concept

• Understanding the differences between the access, distribution, and core layers
• Comparing and contrasting a two-tier versus three-tier design
• Choosing appropriate links for connections
• Implementing the appropriate redundant solution
• Understanding IP addressing special needs
• Understanding good practices in OSPF designs

Lab outline

Lab 1: Accessing HPE vLabs

• Task 1: Verify starting state of switches
• Task 2: Explore the CLI
• Task 3: Configuring IP Addressing and Verifying Connectivity

Lab 2: Basic Setup

• Task 1: Initialize the Lab Topology
• Task 2: Restrict Privileges on Comware
• Task 3: Set up Telnet and SSH Access for Comware

Lab 3: Protecting Management Access

• Task 1: Initialize the Lab Topology
• Task 2: Password Recovery on the Comware Switches
• Task 3: Manage Files on the Comware Switches

Lab 4: Management of Software and Configuration Files

• Task 1: Initialize the Lab Topology
• Task 2: Password Recovery on the Comware Switches
• Task 3: Manage Files on the Comware Switches

Lab 5: VLANs

• Task 1: Initialize the Lab Topology
• Task 2: Creating VLANs
• Task 3: Enabling Connectivity in VLAN 11
• Task 4: Enable connectivity in VLAN 12
• Task 5: Enable connectivity between VLANs 11 and 12

Lab 6: IP Services

• Task 1: Initialize the Lab Topology
• Task 2: Configure a Comware Switch as a DHCP Server
• Task 3: Implement DHCP Relay
• Task 4: Synchronize Time using NTP
• Task 5: Implement a Syslog Solution

Lab 7: Spanning Tree Protocol

• Task 1: Initialize the Lab Topology
• Task 2: Configure Single Instance STP
• Task 3: Configure Multiple Instance STP (Instance 0, 1, 2)
• Task 4: Examine MSTP Operation with Redundant Links

Lab 8: Link Aggregation

• Task 1: Initialize the Lab Topology
• Task 2: Configure and Verify Link Aggregation

Lab 9: IP Routing

• Task 1: Initialize the Lab Topology
• Task 2: Basic VLAN and IP Configuration
• Task 3: Configure and Verify Static Routing
• Task 4: Configure Loopback Interfaces
• Task 5: Configure OSPF in a Single Area
• Task 6: Configure Silent (Passive) Interfaces

Lab 10: Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF)

• Task 1: Initialize the Lab Topology
• Task 2: Prepare for IRF Lab
• Task 3: Establish an IRF Topology
• Task 4: Establish Distributed Link Aggregation
• Task 5: Restore your configurations from Lab 9

Lab 11: Introduction to Intelligent Management Center

• Task 1: Initialize the Lab Topology
• Task 2: Configure SNMP Settings on the HPE Devices
• Task 3: Discover Devices in IMC
• Task 4: IMC Management and Reports
• Task 5: Manage VLANs

Lab 12.1: Configure Basic ACLs

• Task 1: Establish VLAN 20
• Task 2: Add VLAN 20 to OSPF
• Task 3: Place the client in VLAN 20
• Task 4: Plan a basic ACL to protect the server VLAN
• Task 5: Create an ACL to protect the Server VLAN
• Task 6: Test the ACL
• Task 7: Remove the ACLs
• Task 8: Save configurations

Lab 12.2: Configure Advanced ACLs

• Task 1: Control all traffic routed out of the Users VLAN
• Task 2: Test the ACL
• Task 3: Control all traffic routed out of the Guest VLAN
• Task 4: Test the ACL
• Task 5: Remove the packet-filters and put the client back to vlan 12
• Task 6: Save configurations

Lab 13: Implement QoS

• Task 1: Establish a baseline of behavior
• Task 2: Generate congestion
• Task 3: Set a port priority for all traffic
• Task 4: Prioritize traffic by application
• Task 5: Test the policy

Lab 14.1: Implement OSPF

• Task 1: Build the topology
• Task 2: Configure OSPF with one area
• Task 3: Trace routes
• Task 4: Adjust costs to select new routes
• Task 5: Observe LSA propagation and SPF calculations
• Task 6: Disable the link between Comware-2 and Comware-3
• Task 7: Save configurations

Lab 14.2: Implement Multiple OSPF Areas

• Task 1: Divide the OSPF system into multiple areas
• Task 2: Explore the multi-area OSPF AS
• Task 3: Observe effects of area boundaries on LSA updates
• Task 4: Configure aggregated area summaries
• Task 5: Prohibit advertisements of area 0 routes in other areas
• Task 6: Observe effects of route aggregation on LSA updates
• Task 7: Save configurations

Lab 15.1: Establish an eBGP Session

• Task 1: Build the topology
• Task 2: Configure a BGP session to ISP1 on the company router
• Task 3: Configure BGP sessions on the ISP1 router (Comware-3)
• Task 4: Create a BGP connection that uses authentication
• Optional: Task 5: backup the configurations

Lab 15.2: Advertise and Receive Routes Using eBGP

• Task 1: Explore the BGP routing table
• Task 2: Advertise a route in BGP
• Inject a network into BGP using a null route (Comware-2)
• Inject a network into BGP using a null route (Comware-3)
• Task 3: Connect the company router to the OSPF AS
• Task 4: Advertise a default route in OSPF
• Task 5: Test the routing
• Task 6: Filter other ISP routes from BGP advertisements
• Observe the problem
• Solve the problem

Lab 16.1: Configuring PIM-DM

• Task 1: Restore your switch configuration
• Task 2: Verify the topology
• Task 3: Prepare the multicast sender and receiver
• Task 4: Enable IGMP on users’ default router (Comware-4)
• Task 5: Enable PIM-DM on routers between the receivers and source
• Task 6: Stream multicast traffic
• Task 7: Save configurations

Lab 16.2: Configuring PIM-SM

• Task 1: Restore your switch configurations
• Task 2: Prepare the multicast sender and receiver
• Task 3: Enable multicast routing and IGMP on receivers’ default
• Task 4: Enable PIM-SM on routers between the source and receivers
• Task 5: Configure a static RP
• Task 6: Stream multicast traffic
• Task 7: Configure dynamic RPs