Introduction to Web Switching & Load Balancing

Course Code:TRNG-0202
Course Duration: Two days


Schedule and Registration

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:

• Foundry Networks Command Line Interface
  
• Foundry 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 )

Course Contents

• The TRNG-202 course is a comprehensive study of the layer 4 through 7 features of Foundry Networks 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 Foundry 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
Introduction 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 Foundry Networks Products
  
• Network technicians new to Foundry 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