The Fast-Track Guide to VXLAN BGP EVPN Fabrics

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. The Fast-Track Guide to VXLAN BGP EVPN Fabrics 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.

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.

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.

What You Will Learn

• Discover the advantages of a VXLAN spine and leaf fabric over a traditional three-tier network design
• Work with the BGP L2VPN EVPN control plane VXLAN
• Examine the purpose of underlay and overlay in VXLAN
• Use multitenancy and tenant anycast gateways
• Connect your VXLAN fabric to external networks

Who This Book Is For

Senior network engineers, solutions architects, and data center engineers.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction to Spine-and-Leaf Topologies

Chapter 2: Logical Components of a VXLAN BGP EVPN Spine-and-Leaf Architecture

Chapter 3: Encapsulating Layer 2 over Layer 3 with VXLAN

Chapter 4: VXLAN Fabric Features and Functionalities

Chapter 5: VXLAN Fabric to External Network Connectivity

Chapter 6: VXLAN Fabric Topology Designs

Chapter 7: VXLAN BGP EVPN Fabric Configuration Templates

About the Author

Rene Cardona, CCIEx2 – PCNSE is a truly passionate and dedicated IT professional with a major focus in the network security and datacenter realm. His experience is vastly diverse, from working with SMBs to performing large-scale datacenter infrastructure architecture designs for major corporations in the public and private sector. He has a pronounced emphasis on detail. You will not see him spending time with people that don’t truly appreciate and have a passion for technology and are not willing to spend nights and weekends devoted to learning and working with it.