Deploying VXLAN EVPN Fabrics with Nexus Dashboard 4.2

This is the second course in the Cisco Data Center series. The first one taught you to build a VXLAN EVPN fabric from a blank Nexus 9000 using underlay routing, MP-BGP EVPN, VNIs, VRFs, symmetric IRB, anycast gateway. This one takes that same fabric and shows you how it is actually operated in production: through a controller.

You will start by understanding why data centers move from box-by-box CLI to controller-based operations, and where Nexus Dashboard fits architecturally. From there you design and deploy a 3-node ND cluster, choosing between physical and virtual form factors, between L2 and L3 clustering, and working through persistent IPs. Then you use the Data Center VXLAN EVPN template to deploy a greenfield fabric, bring switches in via Bootstrap (POAP) and model external connectivity with edge routers, and the VRF-Lite using L3Out to join the fabric to the outside world. The course then walks through the brownfield workfl...