Aruba Switching Fundamentals for Mobility
Course overview
This course teaches participants the fundamental skills necessary to configure and manage modern, open standards-based networking solutions. This course consists of approximately 20% lecture and 80% hands-on lab exercises to help participants learn how to implement and validate small to medium enterprise network solutions. In this course, participants learn about ArubaOS switch technologies including: VLANs, securing access, redundancy technologies such as MSTP, link aggregation techniques including LACP, and switch virtualization with Aruba’s Virtual Switching Framework (VSF).
Course Duration
3 Days
Cost
Audience
Ideal candidates are IT Professionals who deploy small-to- medium scale enterprise network solutions based on Aruba products and technologies.
Course Content
Introduction to Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company
- Describe market trends that are causing customers to transform in four key Transformation Areas
- Describe how Aruba delivers the digital workplace
Switch CLI (Command Line Interface) Navigation
- Describe out-of-band management
- Complete the initial setup on ArubaOS switches
- Verify configuration
Protecting Management Access
- Explanation of in-band management
- Protect in-band and out-of-band management access
- Confiure local authentication
- Control the privilege level allowed to managers
Management of Software and Configurations
- Overview of ArubaOS and file structures
- Different methods for setting the software from which to boot
- Software update
- Saving and restoring configurations
VLANS
- Explain use cases for VLANs
- Configure port-based VLANs on ArubaOS switches, using appropriate tagging
- Implement basic IP routing between directly connected VLANs or links
Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
- Differentiate between different types of link aggregation and understand the benefits of Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
- Configure and troubleshoot link aggregation on ArubaOS switches
IP Routing
- Configure static routes on HPE switches
- Interpret IP routing tables
- Configure a basic OSPF solution
Virtual Switching Framework (VSF)
- Understand how VSF works and the advantages that it provides
- Configure and verify a simple VSF fabric
Wireless for Small-to-Medium Businesses (SMBs)
- Understand the basics of wireless communications and 802.11 standards
- Define a WLAN and differentiate between wireless security options
- Configure basic settings on Aruba Instant Access Points (IAP)
- Form an Aruba Instant cluster
Aruba AirWave
- Configure AirWave management settings on an IAP cluster
- Configure SNMP v2c settings on ArubaOS switches
- Discover ArubaOS switches in AirWave and bring switches and IAPs under monitoring and management
- Implement zero touch provisioning (ZTP) for Aruba IAPs and ArubaOS switches