DNA hands on

[hishamabdelghanygami (Hisham G)]

Hello guys,

I understnad Rene has prepared some lessons under SD-WAN topic to prepare a lab with EVE, but I understand this is not possible with DNA, so my question is, how do you guys practice DNA ? I checked Cisco Sandbox and it doesn’t help much wit the provided use cases

Thanks

[lagapidis (Lazarus Agapidis)]

Hello Hisham

It is indeed true that DNA is a difficult topic to study for, when approaching the CCIE because of the fact that, as of today at least, it’s not available in any simulation. Here are a few of Rene’s answers that may help you out:

CCIE R&S Lab Equipment

Hi Robert, Once I have a list, I’ll make sure it’s easy to find. The R&S part is no problem with the CSR 1000v, IOSv, and IOSv2-L2 images. If you study on your own, I would create two topologies. You could do this in VIRL. A topology with 4 switches, two links between every switch. Connect 1-2 routers to each switch that you can use as a host. A topology with 8-10 routers, something like this: [image] Pre-configure these routers with IP addresses and multiple loopback interfaces. Yo…

HI I'm Henry from Hong Kong

Hello Henry, Welcome! 350-401 is a requirement yes. You can book the lab without passing 350-401, but you won’t get the CCIE certificate until you pass 350-401. I’m not sure what the best option will be to learn DNA Center. I did some research and found this article where someone got it running on ESXi. You need 56 CPU cores and 256 GB of RAM so that’s a lot. Cisco might release a virtual appliance someday. For now, the only way to play with DNA Center is through Devnet or Dcloud. Rene

I hope this has been helpful!

Laz