The Fast Track Guide to VXLAN BGP EVPN Fabrics

<p>Master the day-to-day administration and maintenance procedures for existing VXLAN fabrics. In this book you''ll discuss common issues and troubleshooting steps to help you keep your environment in stable operation. <i>The Fast-Track Guide to VXLAN BGP EVPN Fabrics</i> is a guide for network engineers and architects who can''t spend too much time learning everything about VXLAN. It has been created with the end goal of providing you with a straightforward approach to understand, implement, administer, and maintain VXLAN BGP EVPN-based data center networks. </p><p>Using this book, you will understand Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) as a technology that combines network virtualization and service provider class network attributes to solve the performance and scalability limitations in a three-tier design. You will learn to combine multiple links and provide equal-cost multipathing to effortlessly scale speed requirements without being worried about potential loops. </p><p>You will learn VXLAN BGP EVPN configuration procedures with graphical step-by-step examples. You will be introduced to foundational concepts in VXLAN without the need to go over hundreds of documentation pages. This book is a clear and precise guide to implementing a spine and leaf architecture running with VXLAN. It explains how to perform day-to-day maintenance and administration tasks after implementing your first VXLAN fabric. It also explains how to integrate external devices such as firewalls, routers, and load balancers to VXLAN; how to leverage your VXLAN fabric; and how to create multiple tenant networks to secure your critical infrastructure. </p><p><b>What You Will Learn </b></p><p></p><ul><li>Discover the advantages of a VXLAN spine and leaf fabric over a traditional three-tier network design</li><li>Work with the BGP L2VPN EVPN control plane VXLAN</li><li>Examine the purpose of underlay and overlay in VXLAN</li><li>Use multitenancy and tenant anycast gateways</li><li>Connect your VXLAN fabric to external networks</li></ul><p></p><p><b>Who This Book Is For</b></p><p>Senior network engineers, solutions architects, and data center engineers.</p><br><p></p>