Dell EMC PowerSwitch Campus Implementation and Administration (PSCIA) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Campus Networking Overview

  • Define Campus Networking
  • Campus Networking Technologies
  • Campus Topologies

Campus Networking Overview

  • Boot Process
  • Mgmt IP and Firmware
  • Standalone vs stack

Virtual LAN (VLAN)

  • VLAN Overview
  • VLAN Tagging, Switchport modes, Switch Tag Filtering
  • Default VLAN, VLAN Database, VLAN Interfaces and
  • Configurable VLAN Range
  • Configuration Validation and Troubleshooting VLANs
  • Private VLANs
  • Use cases
  • Routed VLANs

Spanning-Tree Protocol

  • STP Basics
  • RSTP protocol
  • MSTP protocol
  • RSTP-PV Protocol
  • STP Protection
  • Troubleshooting

Link Aggregation Groups (LAGs)

  • Overview
  • Operation of LAGs
  • Static LAG
  • Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
  • Interaction with STP
  • Switch to Server LAG

MLAG (Multi-chassis Link Aggregation)

  • Overview
  • Components
  • Peer Link and Peers
  • Limitations of MLAG
  • Firmware Updates
  • Configuration, Validation and Troubleshooting

Discovery Protocols

  • Discover Protocols Overview
  • Packet info (text fields in the frame), with visual examples
  • ISDP, CDP and LLDP
  • N-Series run ISDP

Security

  • Access Control Lists
  • Port Security
  • AAA Security

Power Over Ethernet (PoE)

  • Overview
  • Example POE devices
  • Power Standards, Class of device and power requirements
  • Static vs Dynamic power budget
  • PoE Limits per switch model and port number
  • Configuring PoE on Campus Switches
  • Validation using show commands
  • Determine the cause for an IP Phone not powering on
  • Measure the power output for a given interface and/or the entire switch

Quality of Service (QoS)

  • QoS Overview
  • Classification
  • Queuing
  • Shaping
  • Policing
  • Congestion
  • Protocols

Voice Over IP (VOIP)

  • VOIP Overview
  • N-Series predefined policy
  • VLAN support
  • LLDP-MED
  • dotp and diffserv
  • ISDP/CDP in Cisco phone configs

DHCP

  • DHCP Overview
  • DHCP protocol
  • DHCP Server Options (supported and not supported)
  • DHCP Server
  • DHCP Helper
  • DHCP L2 relay, snooping

VRRP

  • VRRP Overview
  • Priority
  • Master vs slave
  • Staggering per VLAN
  • Object tracking
  • Addresses and uses (multicast, VIP)
  • Pre-empt vs no pre-empt

Routing

  • Route Basics
  • Static Routing
  • OSPF
  • BGP

Policy based routing (PBR)

  • Overview of PBR
  • Working of `PBR
  • Examples for Traffic Isolation, Server Priority and VLAN
  • Redirection
  • Configuring, Validation and Troubleshooting PBR

Multicast

  • Overview
  • IGMP Query/Snooping (within network)
  • PIM (routing multicast)

IPv6

  • IPv6 Addressing
  • Scopes
  • ICMP

Stacking

  • Need for stacking
  • Topology options (cascade vs ring)
  • Roles (Master, Standby, Member)
  • Hardware used for connectivity between chassis
  • Setting member priority
  • General Stacking guidelines
  • User port vs. stack modules