Скачать или смотреть Tutorial: Building Virtual Labs for Design Validation, Technical Training, & Operational Migrations

Engineering Teams have always struggled to create meaningful hardware-based infrastructure lab environments for such tasks as mocking up networks and simulating design changes, practicing major migrations before touching production networks, or training new users with hands-on experiences that emulate their own networks. These hardware-based labs are expensive to build up and difficult to maintain. In addition, with a push for learning Network Automation and new Cloud-Based Management Solutions, a dev-ops environment to experiment with these tools against infrastructure is a must.

While simulated network tools have been around for quite some time, I'd like to share some my recent experience and success in utilizing an easy to implement and low-cost tool to provide a simulated sandbox environment for some of the above initiatives. Some of the referenced initiatives have been geared toward internal engineering teams, while others have been customer facing for training and Proof-of-Concept initiatives.

Michael Carey, a Senior Solutions Architect, will present on some of what has been learned along the way utilizing this tool, EVE-NG, to show how to easily get this tool up and running in various environments, provide some ideas for where to start with the vendor emulation environments, and discuss some of the benefits this environment can provide to your engineering staff and/or customers.

Michael Carey: Michael Carey is a Senior Solutions Architect within the Commercial East Sales Architecture team at ConvergeOne. His previous role as a Lead Solutions Architect at ConvergeOne and Integration Partners focused on multi-vendor Network Fabric architectures and designs, developing and utilizing Network Automation tools, and leading the Mid-Atlantic Post-Sales Engineering efforts. Prior to joining ConvergeOne, Michael held positions as the Lead Network Engineer and Director of Network Operations with the Keystone Initiative for Network Based Education & Research (KINBER) designing, building, and managing Pennsylvania's Research and Education Network (PennREN). Michael has previous Network Design, Implementation, and Network Management experience at UPS Logistics Group, Tidelands-Georgetown Hospital Systems, and Penn State University. Michael is a graduate of Penn State University and resides in State College, Pennsylvania.

Speaker: Michael Carey - Integration Partners