EVPN Technical Deep Dive
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Ethernet Virtual Private Networks (EVPN) technology has emerged as the unifying control plane used to implement layer-2 and layer-3 VPNs in data center and service provider networks. It’s been implemented by major router and data center switching vendors and is widely used to build scalable overlay virtual networks.
This webinar will help you grasp the EVPN fundamentals, potential use cases, and its benefits and drawbacks. The deep dive part of the webinar discusses the technical details that will enable you to deploy and troubleshoot EVPN in multi-vendor environments. The advanced parts of the webinar also cover MLAG integration, EVPN multihoming and service insertion.
Contents Overview
Introduction to EVPN
- What is EVPN
- Comparing EVPN to L3VPN (MPLS/VPN)
- Going beyond MPLS transport
- Typical data center and WAN use cases
Bridging with EVPN
- Using EVPN with VXLAN encapsulation
- MAC learning and BUM flooding
- Dual-attached hosts
- ARP suppression
- Step-by-step packet forwarding
- Running EVPN on Linux
- Configuration examples
Routing with EVPN
- Centralized and anycast ingress routing models
- Symmetric and asymmetric Integrated Routing and Bridging (IRB)
- Step-by-step packet forwarding
- Control plane support for EVPN routing models
- Route summarization and external routing
- Multicast routing
- Configuration examples
EVPN Multihoming
- Multihoming taxonomy and overview
- EVPN multihoming deep dive
- Using MLAG in EVPN/VXLAN environments
- Cisco vPC Fabric Peering details
Service Insertion in EVPN Networks
Layer4-7 Services insertion is an eminent requirement within Data Center. With the evolution of Fabric deployments, the environment change from previous centralized functions to more distributed ones.
The VXLAN BGP EVPN fabric does support the well-known use-cases of Firewall and Load Balancer insertion, more commonly referred to as Layer-4 to Layer-7 Network Services, and we'll cover the concepts around Tenant Edge, Intra Tenant and the combination of both.
Further, we will discuss how to attach network services devices in a single-homed or multi-homed VTEP scenario. Last but not least, we will look at how we could integrate load balancers and what options exist in creating a “simple” Service Chain. There will also be goodies for fans of selective traffic redirection and friends of Virtual Network Functions.
Running EVPN and VXLAN on Hosts
The advent of network disaggregation has brought forth the availability of sophisticated and robust open-source routing suites running on Linux or OpenBSD. This opens up many possibilities, including running a routing suite on an end host, resulting in a standards-based solution devoid of any vendor lock-in. Not surprisingly, some operators have already started doing this to support their OpenStack or Kubernetes deployments.
In this part of the EVPN webinar Dinesh Dutt explains what it means to run EVPN on hosts, what are the benefits, and how it works... including a working demo of the concept.
MPLS-Based EVPN in Service Provider Networks
Krzysztof Szarkowicz will explain how EVPN works with MPLS transport and how service providers use EVPN with MPLS to build next-generation L2VPN and L3VPN networks.
Multi-Vendor EVPN Deployments
A cursory look at the recommended solution by any of the popular data center switching vendors leads you to think that there's no common way to do EVPN across all the vendors. This section evaluates different EVPN implementations by the most popular vendors in the data center space, starting with vendor configs, show commands and their outputs etc.
Knowledge of these details is useful as you navigate the EVPN waters across different networks over the course of your career, and for a deeper understanding of EVPN. We'll use this lens to also examine the model that works best across all vendors, and so is a safe bet to deploy when you're in doubt.
Happy Campers
About the webinar
- perfect. unfortunately i missed the beginning part but will review recordings. thanks a lot!
- Boris Khasanov
- I thought the presentation was excellent, and Dinesh did a really good job of explaining the technology. I do think some more diagrams would have been helpful in Dinesh's presentation though. The one slide he had up that did have a diagram made things easier to ingest where I found my mind working quite a bit harder, and not catching everything, in absence of a good visual.
- Steven Simonds
- I'm assuming the plan is to continue where we left off with Dinesh on the next April session? I'm really interested in what was coming next in the slide deck. I work at a company that deployed BGP EVPN with Cisco 9Ks, so all of this content is very relevant and interesting. I can't wait to hear more!
- William Parsley
- I enjoyed the session. Dinesh's sound quality was pretty terrible, but I suspect it will be resolved on the recorded video since he was recording locally.
- Andrey Khomyakov
- while learning it is great to see the packet walk, we skipped past what BGP EVPN NLRI looks like for different Route Type 2,3,5
we didn't touch RT 1,4 - Mark Horsfield
- Presenter was clear, precise and concise.
Host always on top.
Great to see I followed the right direction for my company - Antonio Boj
- Everything was just great
- Boris Khasanov
- Good session but pretty fringe topic. Something to put in my nack pocket for the future so glad I attended.
- Andrew
- Covering not only technical details but use cases and assets connected to EVPN networks. Very good webinar - thanks.
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SÅawek - Slawomir Janukowicz
- Will be great to have Deep Dive EVPN session, as a lot of topics were left behind the scene.
- Andrei Cebotareanu
- Thank you for the professionalism and expertise.
- James Hamilton
- Learn from the Industry veterans as nothing compares to the experience shared by the Maestros.
- shuja naqvi
- This is a wealth of information from one of the leading sources of knowledge on EVPN/VXLAN. Well worth the time, and was a great way for me to shore up the parts of EVPN/VXLAN that I was unsure of.
- Chris Cummings
- Outstanding instructors. Both of them areo different but both of the excellent.
- Unknown User
- This Webinar is what I was looking for, the way how it was explain is clear and easy to follow and get a good understanding of the technology.
- Juan Larriega
About the instructor
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- Richard Seepaul
- Both Ivan and Dinesh were fantastic. I can't wait for the next session.
- William Parsley
- I want to see more sessions related to the topic was presented from him.
- Antonio Boj
- Dinesh do not need adfitional comments :)
- Boris Khasanov
About the materials
- Please ask Dinesh to present more frequently :)
- Boris Khasanov
- Thank you so much for the time put into this, this was extremely helpful!
- Chris Cummings
- I would like to see videos on nexus dashboard NDFC with vxlan and nexus insights for vxlan EVPN fabric.. these are trending dc Technology and I hope Ivan will consider adding such technical videos on migration design and integrations
- pramod kg
- Keep the good work
- Juan Larriega
The Authors
Dinesh Dutt has been in the networking industry for the past 20 years, most of it at Cisco Systems. Most recently, he was the Chief Scientist at Cumulus Networks, working on simplifying configuration and operations with inventions such as BGP Unnumbered and NetQ. Before Cumulus, he was a Fellow at Cisco Systems. He has been involved in enterprise and data center networking technologies, including the design of many of the ASICs that powered Cisco's mega-switches such as Cat6K and the Nexus family of switches. He also has experience in storage networking from his days at Andiamo Systems and in the design of FCoE. He is a co-author of TRILL and VxLAN and has filed for over 40 patents.
Ivan Pepelnjak, CCIE#1354 Emeritus, is an independent network architect, book author, blogger and regular speaker at industry events like Interop, RIPE and regional NOG meetings. He has been designing and implementing large-scale service provider and enterprise networks since 1990, and is currently using his expertise to help multinational enterprises and large cloud- and service providers design next-generation data center and cloud infrastructure using Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) approaches and technologies.
Ivan is the author of several books covering data center technologies, highly praised webinars, and dozens of data center and cloud-related technical articles published on his blog.
Lukas Krattiger, CCIE No. 21921 (Routing and Switching/Data Center), is a Principal Technical Marketing Engineer (PTME) with more than 18 years of experience in Data Center-, Internet- and Application-Networks. Within the Cisco Enterprise Infrastructure and Solutions Group (EISG), he specializes in Data Center switching architectures and solutions across platforms. Lukas is a double-CCIE (R&S, Data Center) with several other industry certifications and has participated in various technology leadership and advisory groups.
Krzysztof Grzegorz Szarkowicz (CCIE SP #14550 Emeritus and JNCIE SP #400 Emeritus) is a Technical Marketing Engineer (TME) with over 20 years experience in designing service provider and, as well as large enterprise networks. Krzysztof currently works for Juniper Service Provider business unit looking primarily for large metro-aggregation and mobile transport designs, including IP/MPLS transport, L2/L3 (EVPN) services, as well as timing and synchronization.
Krzysztof is the author of the O'Reilly book "MPLS in the SDN Era", with an in-depth discussion of MPLS transport and services technology, backed by interoperable Cisco + Juniper network design examples.
Technical Advisor
Nicola Modena (CCIE #19119 and JNCIE-SP #986) has been working for over 20 years as a Network and Security Architect for Service Provider and large enterprise.
He loves the simplicity and elegance of the solutions and he is satisfied only when he removed every unnecessary item or performed an hit-less migration. His particular fields of interest are MPLS, any forms of BGP, Enterprise Wan, interoperability, and networks architecture in general. Lately he's using his extensive knowledge of BGP to design and deploy EVPN-based data center fabrics.