Learn to deploy Juniper Data Centers with EVPN VXLAN and master the only intent-based multivendor solution for deploying and monitoring EVPN-based VXLAN fabrics!

Deploying Juniper Data Centers with EVPN VXLAN is designed for engineers and architects designing, deploying, and/or maintaining small to large data centers. This book will increase productivity and streamline processing and communication by helping you understand BGP EVPN–based VXLAN, data center design and deployment using Junos, and interconnecting multiple data centers for various deployment applications. Aninda Chatterjee’s straightforward prose and industry experience also gives you the foundational knowledge necessary for Juniper Data Center certification from the JNCIA-DC to the JNCIE-DC.

The book’s structure is unique in its chapter-by-chapter approach with one-pager quick reference guides at the end of the book. The author also puts theory to practice using a combination of packet captures and packet walks.

• Learn to design, deploy, and maintain a data center using Junos OS and Junos Evolved.
• Understand how to troubleshoot BGP EVPN-based VXLAN.
• Maximize learning with with packet captures and packet walks.
• Build foundational knowledge for Juniper Data Center certification.
• Gain a deep understanding of data center design.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introducing the Juniper Ecosystem

Chapter 2 Overview of Data Center Architecture

Chapter 3 BGP for the Data Center

Chapter 4 VXLAN as a Network Virtualization Overlay

Chapter 5 Bridged Overlay in an EVPN VXLAN Fabric

Chapter 6 MAC-VRFs

Chapter 7 Centrally Routed Bridging

Chapter 8 Edge-Routed Bridging

Chapter 9 Routed Overlay and Host-Routed Bridging

Chapter 10 DHCP in EVPN VXLAN Fabrics

Chapter 11 Data Center Interconnect

Chapter 12 Building Data Centers with Juniper Apstra, Part 1-Apstra Foundation

Chapter 13 Building Data Centers with Juniper Apstra, Part I I- Advanced Apstra Deployments

Chapter 14 Building Virtual Fabrics with vJunos, Containerlab, and Juniper Apstra

Chapter 15 Large-Scale Fabrics, lnter-VRF Routing, and Security Policies in Apstra

About the Author

Aninda Chatterjee holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Information Science. His networking career started at AT&T, troubleshooting Layer 1 circuit issues, eventually transitioning to customer support at Cisco TAC, specializing in Layer 2. After his stint at Cisco TAC, he has held several roles across different organizations, with functions including escalation support for enterprise and data center engineering, designing, implementing, and troubleshooting enterprise and data center networks, and technical marketing for Cisco Software Defined Access (SDA).

In his current role as a senior technical marketing engineer at Juniper Networks, Aninda specializes in data center networks with EVPN VXLAN, while also focusing on the high demand of networking infrastructure for high-performance computing and AI/ML clusters.