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.
