Brocade Virtual Application Delivery Essentials

Résumé

This instructor-led course with hands-on labs provides an introduction to the Brocade Virtual Application Delivery product family and supported Layer 4 through 7 features. Products covered in this training include Brocade Virtual Traffic Manager (vTM) with an overview of capabilities of Brocade Services Director (SD) and Brocade Virtual Web Application Firewall (vWAF). Other topics include, configuration of vTM installations, fail pools, clustering, SSL, and Global Load Balancing (GLB).

Objectifs

Upon successful completion of this course, the student should be able to:

Describe the Brocade Virtual Application Delivery software models
Describe the purpose of a Layer 4-7 switch
Explain end-to-end packet flow
Define the network architecture for Brocade Virtual Traffic Manager deployments
Describe Traffic IPs, Traffic IP groups, and clustered Traffic Managers
Describe fail pools, priority groups and available health monitors
Explain the user management and authentication options
Explain the session persistence configuration options
Describe the available SSL encryption and decryption features
Explain the web content and caching features
Define the rate shaping and bandwidth management features
Describe the GLB feature
Explain the RuleBuilder and TrafficScript functionality
Describe the Brocade Virtual Traffic Manager IPv6 support
Introduce the Brocade Services Director (SD) and Virtual Web Application Firewall (vWAF) products

Public

This course is designed for network administrators, system administrators, network architects, systems engineers, and technical support engineers that are involved with installation, configuration, maintenance, and basic troubleshooting of the Brocade Virtual Application Delivery product family.

Pré-requis

Before taking this course, students should have working knowledge of:
- Routing, NAT, DNS, and BIND
- Application Protocols
- VMware ESXi OVA Deployment
- HTML pages
- Linux CLI
- Understanding of programming languages and structure

Programme détaillé

Module 1 — Course Introduction
Module 2 — Load Balancing Overview
Module 3 — Deploying a Traffic Manager Instance
Lab 3-1: Lab environment overview
Lab 3-2: Server setup and vTM deployment
Module 4 — Traffic Manager Basic Concepts
Lab 4: New Service Wizard
Module 5 — Hosting Multiple Services
Lab 5-1: Traffic IP
Lab 5-2: Second Service (Staging Pool)
Module 6 — Clustering
Lab 6-1: Clustering
Module 7 — Layer 7 Protocols
Module 8 — TrafficScript
Lab 8: Production (Prod) Servers, RuleBuilder, Traffic Script
Module 9 — Monitoring
Lab 9 : Graphing and Zeusbench
Module 10 — Managing Nodes and Failover Features
Lab 10-1: Alerts
Lab 10-2: Failover Pools & Web site failure
Module 11 — Web Content Compression and Caching
Module 12 — Session Persistence and SSL Features
Lab 12: IP Session Persistence and SSL Decryption
Module 13 — User Management and Authentication
Module 14 — IPv6
Module 15 — Bandwidth Management and Service Features
Lab 15: Bandwidth Management, Service Protection & SLM
Module 16 — Global Load Balancing
Module 17 — Web Application Firewall
Module 18 — Services Director
Module 19 — Web Accelerator