This four-day course provides students with detailed exposure to the Juniper Mist Wired Assurance solution. This includes the three stages associated with switch installations: Day Zero—Provisioning, Day One—Deployment, and Day Two—Operations. This course explores the supporting technologies, software, and hardware that make up traditional campus LANs and campus fabrics. This course has six modules discussing Day One configuration, wired clients, managing site variables and dynamic port configurations, deploying campus fabrics, and lastly, discussing and implementing group-based policies (GBPs) and microsegmentation.

Through demonstrations and hands-on labs, students will gain experience with provisioning, deploying, and managing Juniper EX Series and QFX Series switches. Students will also deploy switches to create an Ethernet VPN–Virtual Extensible LAN (EVPN-VXLAN) campus fabric. The students will complete all these tasks in a dedicated lab through the Juniper Mist portal. The course is based on the latest version of Mist prior to the course release. Mist is a SaaS that updates in a biweekly cadence. The labs are focused on implementing and managing switches using the Mist UI in both a traditional campus architecture and a modern Campus Fabric architecture.

• Describe the benefits of Juniper Mist Wired Assurance (switch installation and campus fabrics).
• Explain each of the three processes that make up switch installation.
• Summarize the management of standalone and Virtual Chassis switches in the Mist UI.
• Correlate switch configurations and template options available in the Mist UI.
• Explain traditional and modern campus architectures.
• Install a Juniper enterprise switch with the Mist UI.
• Deploy switches in a traditional campus LAN.
• Deploy an EVPN-multihomed campus fabric using Mist.
• Deploy a 3-stage IP Clos campus fabric using Mist.

DAY 1

1 Course Introduction

2 Mist Wired Assurance Overview

• Describe Mist overview
• Define the Wired Assurance solutions and supported devices
• Administer a Mist Account

3 Mist Wired Assurance, Day Zero—Provision

• Describe the integration workflow
• Explain greenfield provisioning and review the ZTP processes
• Explain brownfield provisioning
• Describe telemetry collection

Lab 1: Onboarding Switches

4 Mist Wired Assurance—Virtual Chassis

• Describe the Virtual Chassis
• Describe forming a Virtual Chassis using Mist’s VC wizard
• Describe forming a Virtual Chassis manually
• Describe modifying a Virtual Chassis
• Describe monitoring a Virtual Chassis

5 Mist Wired Assurance, Day One—Deployment

• Describe the configuration options available from Mist to manage all, some, or single switches

Lab 2: Managing Switches and Templates

DAY 2

6 Mist Wired Assurance, Day One—Configuration

Define the Mist configuration and template options

7 Configuration Scalability Use Cases

• Describe the site variables use case
• Describe the dynamic port configuration use case
• Describe the select switches use case
• Describe the bulk upload of switch configurations

8 Mist Wired Assurance, Day Two—Operations

• Describe Wired Assurance SLEs and their classifiers
• Describe Alerts and Events
• Describe Switch Insights
• Describe Switch Utilities

Lab 3: Mist Utilities

9 Wired Clients

• Explain the operation of Mist Wired Clients
• Discuss Wired Client Insights

DAY 3

10 Campus Fabric Architectures

• Describe a traditional Campus network design
• Explain the need for a new architectural design
• Describe Layer 3-based campus network designs

11 VXLAN Overview

• Describe Layer 2 tunneling
• Explain VXLAN functionality
• Describe VXLAN gateways

12 EVPN-VXLAN

• Describe EVPN features
• Explain EVPN operations
• Describe EVPN and VXLAN for data plane encapsulation

13 Mist Campus Fabric Deployment—EVPN Multihoming

• Describe the campus fabric deployments available in Mist
• Deploy an EVPN-multihoming fabric using Mist

Lab 4: EVPN Multihoming Fabric

DAY 4

14 Mist Campus Fabric Deployment—Core Distribution

• Deploy a Mist campus fabric-core distribution

15 Group-Based Policy and Microsegmentation

• Explain network segmentation
• Explain GBP and Microsegmentation
• Configure GBP in Mist

16 Mist Campus Fabric Deployment–IP Clos

• Deploy a Mist campus fabric-IP Clos

Lab 5: Campus Fabric IP Clos – 3-Stage

• Individuals who want an understanding of Juniper Mist Wired Assurance and Juniper switches
• Individuals who want to learn how to deploy campus networks using Mist
• Individuals who want an introduction to network fabrics and their application in a campus LAN environment.

• Completion of the Juniper Wireless Networks with Mist AI (JWMA) course or equivalent knowledge
• General understanding of campus and enterprise networks
• Advanced networking knowledge of routing and switching and supporting technologies
• Basic knowledge of Juniper switching devices
• Strong understanding of the BGP routing protocol