Learning Sd-WAN with Cisco: Transform Your Existing WAN Into a Cost-Effective Network

Chapter 1: An Introduction To SD-WAN

Chapter Goal: Explore how SD-WAN evolved and why we would use it.

No of pages 20

Sub -Topics

1. What is SD-WAN and what does it do for us?

2. Cisco Viptela

3. What comprises an SD-WAN

vBond
vManage

vSmart
vEdge

Chapter 2: Deployment Overview

Chapter Goal: How we are going to deploy our lab and what resources we need

No of pages: 15

Sub - Topics

1. EVE-NG - install and basic usage

2. Smart-Net account - creating and licensing

3. Downloading the components

4. Topology

Chapter 3: Deploying vManage

Chapter Goal: To deploy the vManage server, get familiar with it and perform some basic set up

No of pages: 20

Sub - Topics:

1. Installing vManage

2. Creating our Organization

3. Creating the certificates

4. Managing images in the software repository

5. Managing users

6. Single and multi-tenancy options

7. Clustering options

Chapter 4: Understanding The Overlay

Chapter Goal: To gain a deeper understanding of the overlay mechanisms that are used in SD-WAN

No of pages: 20

Sub - Topics:

1: The OMP routing protocol

2: BFD

3: TLOC

4: VPN0

5: VPN 512

Chapter 5: Deploying vBond

Chapter Goal: Deploy the vBond server and connect it to our network

No of pages: 10

Sub - Topics:

1. Configuring vBond

2. Adding vBond to the network

3. Other vBond deployment options:

a. ESXi

b. KVM

Chapter 6: Deploying vSmart

Chapter Goal: Deploy the vSmart controller and connect it to our network

No of pages: 10

Sub - Topics:

1. Configuring vSmart controller

2. Adding the vSmart controller to the network

3. Other vBond deployment options:

a. ESXi

b. KVM

Chapter 7: Deploying vEdge

Chapter Goal: Deploy the vEdge routers locally and on AWS

No of pages: 20

Sub - Topics:

1. Configuring our vEdge routers

2. Alternative deployment options

a. ESXi

b. KVM

3. Deploying vEdge on AWS

4. Preparing vEdge for ZTP

Chapter 8: Configuring Policies

Chapter Goal: To explore localized and centralized policies

No of pages: 8

Sub - Topics:

1. About Localized and Centralized policies

2. Configuring localized policies

3. Configuring centralized