Prerequisites
Aruba highly recommends learners have a networking knowledge equivalent to the Aruba Certified
Switching Professional (ACSP) certification.
Additionally, knowledge of VXLAN and MP-BGP technologies and configuration are recommended.
What you’ll learn in this course
Aruba Fabric Composer allows a network administrator to orchestrate data center fabrics using a
guided, step-by-step approach. Aruba Fabric Composer applies best practice configurations and
ensures a fast and error-free deployment.
This course will help a student understand and use Aruba
Fabric Composer in a datacenter environment.
Course Objectives
After you successfully complete this course, expect to be able to:
• Describe Aruba Fabric Composer features and functions
• Install, operate and manage Aruba Fabric Composer
• Manage Switches with Aruba Fabric Composer
• Create AOS-CX VSX pairs and VSF stacks
• Create a layer 2 data center fabric
• Create a layer 3 / leaf-spine fabric with a VXLAN overlay and an EVPN control plane
• Integrate with Aruba NetEdit, HPE Servers using ILO Amplifier, and VMware vSphere
Course Outline
• Aruba Fabric Composer Introduction
o Data Center Network introduction
o Data Center design
o Aruba Fabric Composer (AFC) fabrics
o AFC integration with multiple platforms
• Installing Aruba Fabric Composer
o Install options
o Hardware requirements
o AFC install using OVA
o AFC install using ISO
o Licenses
Orchestrating Data Center Networks with Aruba Fabric
Composer (AR-ODCNAFC)
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• Operation and Administration
o Graphical user interface
o User creation
o LDAP integration
o Logs and troubleshooting
• Switch Management
o Discovery
o Configuration
o Management
o Monitoring
o Upgrades
• AOS-CX Virtualization and Stacking
o Virtualization technologies
o VSX
o VSF
• Leaf-Spine Introduction
o L2 Leaf-Spine
o L3 Leaf-Spine
• EVPN
o Underlay and overlay concepts
o Configure a data fabric with EVPN overlay
• Integration with HPE Aruba
o Integrating AFC with HPE products
o Key advantages of watch integration
• VMware Integration
o Integration with VMware products and solutions
o AFC integration benefits to VMware vSphere, SDDC and NSX-T
• Nutanix Prism Integration
o Integrate AFC and Nutanix Prism and its benefits
• Rest API
o Rest API operations and methods
o AFC API Explorer
o External resources for AFC automation
Further information
If you would like to know more about this course please contact us