Introduction to Web Switching & Load Balancing (ETH 202)
Prerequisites
To fully benefit from this course you should have a working knowledge of the listed technologies and the following personal hardware during the week of attendance.
- Working Knowledge Of
- Brocade Command Line Interface
- Brocade Router Interfaces addressing
- Domain Name Service (DNS)
- The OSI reference model
- The classification of TCP/UDP traffic based on port number
- The structure of a URL address (Prefix / Pattern / Suffix )
- Personal hardware
- Laptop Personal Computer with W95 or higher
- Ethernet NIC card
- CD Drive
- Serial Interface (with a DB9 Connector)
- TFTP application
Course Content
The ETH 202 course is a comprehensive study of the layer 4 through 7 features of Brocade ServerIron Products. The student gains hands on experience in configuration of typical installations with the ServerIron product. Lecture topics are supported with real world labs involving: Source NAT, Direct Server Return, Active-Active Server Load Balancing, Firewall Load Balancing (FWLB), Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB).
Course Objectives
After completing this course, the student will be able to:
- Identify where Brocade ServerIron Products are used in a Typical Data Network
- Configure ServerIrons in Layer 4 through 7 applications
- Incorporate fault tolerance and high availability at:
- The local level with multiple servers that failover
- The public address level with Multiple Virtual IP addresses (VIPs) that failover
- The global level with multiple business sites that failover.
- Redirect content to cache servers without configuring a browser proxy
- Configure Firewall Load Balancing (FWLB)
- Implement Policy Based Switching keying on SSL ID, cookie, or URL parsing
Course Outline
- Intro to ServerIron
- Overview of ServerIron Products
- Describe Layer 4 Switching
- Describe Server Load Balancing
- Describe Layer 4 Security Issues
- Configuring Server Load Balancing (SLB)
- Describe a Basic SLB Configuration
- Execute Show server commands
- Perform Basic SLB Lab
- Perform an Active Standby SLB Lab
- Describe Filters
- Perform Source NAT Lab
- Advanced Features of SLB
- Describe Switch Back (DSR)
- Perform a DSR Lab
- Describe Multiple Virtual IP addresses
- Perform Active-Active Lab
- Describe Remote Server Farms
- Sample Designs of SLB
- Transparent Cache Switching (TCS)
- Describe the Benefits of TCS
- Describe Web caching
- Describe TCS Applications
- Configuring (TCS)
- Basic TCS layout
- Define Output policies
- Define Cache Servers
- Define Cache Groups
- Define Cache Traffic Distribution
- Filtering Cache Traffic
- Firewall Load Balancing (FWLB)
- Describe the benefits of Firewall Load Balancing
- Describe Types of Firewalls
- Review a Basic FWLB example
- Describe Show FW commands
- Perform a Basic FWLB Lab
- Review Sample FWLB Designs
- Describe Stateful FWLB
- Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB)
- Describe GSLB
- Describe GSLB Benefits
- Describe GSLB Site Predictor Metric
- Describe a Configuration example
- Perform a GSLB Lab (3 Sites)
- Policy Based Switching
- Describe Cookie Based Switching
- Describe Cookie Based Hashing
- Describe SSL Session ID Switching
- Describe URL Switching
Who should attend
The Target Audience for this course is as follows:
- Customers or Resellers who are new to Brocade Products
- Network technicians new to Brocade Products and Services
- Network Administrators responsible for implementing and managing small to large business networks.
- Network support staff who will act as network device installers and first-line support for a local to global sized business environment.
- Foundry Networks Certified Network Engineer FNCNE Candidates