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Ubiquiti Enterprise Switch Configuration 

Build the switching layer that holds the entire data center together. Drop two Enterprise Campus Switches into the core and wires them up with Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation. Configure Spanning Tree the right way with one setting, segment traffic using both internal and external VLANs, and walk away with a switching infrastructure that is redundant, loop-free, and segmented.
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THE SKILLS YOU'LL GAIN:
• Configure Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation across two Enterprise Campus Switches for redundant, high-bandwidth uplinks
• Set the Spanning Tree root bridge correctly so traffic flows through your core, not your oldest closet switch
• Build internal VLANs with full routing, NAT, and DHCP managed by the EFG
• Create external VLANs that hand off routing to the colocation facility's own infrastructure
• Control trunk ports with tagged and untagged assignments, VLAN pruning, and per-port traffic isolation
Skills

1

Videos

4

Labs / Quizzes

0

Minutes

40

Course description

Wire the Switching Layer Everything Depends On

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Two Switches. One Brain. Zero Loops.
Pick up where the EFG firewall deployment left off and builds the collapsed core switching layer that connects firewalls to servers. Two Ubiquiti Enterprise Campus Switches go in as the aggregation tier, bonded together with Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation so they appear as a single device to every upstream connection. Walk through the configuration with a hand-drawn network diagram on screen the entire time, mapping every port number and every MC-LAG target device as you go.

Spanning Tree Protocol gets the attention it deserves here. By default, the root bridge role falls to whichever switch has the lowest MAC address, which is almost always the oldest and weakest device in your network. One priority value on your core switch fixes the entire forwarding topology. 

From there, build out both internal and external VLANs. Internal VLANs are managed end to end by Ubiquiti, with routing, NAT, and DHCP all handled by the EFG in a single screen. External VLANs pass a VLAN ID through to a third-party gateway, which is exactly what you need when the data center handles its own routing for hosted servers on the other side. Trunk port configuration, tagged versus untagged traffic, and VLAN pruning round out the skill so every link carries only the traffic it should.
Trainer

Jeremy Cioara

Hello! If we haven’t met before, my name is Jeremy Cioara. I stepped into the training world back in 1998, teaching a group of phone technicians at US West Communications about this new technology called DSL. I was 19 years old.

Things have come a long way since then… and yet some things never change: I’m still passionate about seeing others light up when what was once a confusing, discouraging topic suddenly clicks. What’s even more exciting these days is that I now bring the experience of building a company (Veeya) that actually does the stuff I teach! I’m stepping back into the virtual classroom with a renewed passion for bringing the real world into my training. Yes—there’s so much more to being successful in technology than… technology!

And yes, my friend, I still say, “I hope this has been informative for you, and I’d like to thank you for viewing.”
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