EVE-NG ROCKS!! Network Emulator for CCNA | CCNP | DevNet

I am totally obsessed with even G and in this video I'm gonna show you how I'm using it my own virtual lab environment as I studied for the CCIE I don't know why it took me so long to dig into even G and test it out but I'm so glad I did before I jump into even G if this is your first time visiting my channel and you'd like to grow your IT skills in your IT career I'd love to encourage you to click that little subscribe button and the bell so you get notified when new content comes available all right network simulation and emulation tools they've been around for a while we've all grown up so to speak with packet tracer and gns3 or maybe you're new to the networking space and you're kind of exploring all this stuff for the first time well even GE has been around for a little while too and I always heard about it but I was happy with gns3 viral and packet tracer those aren't good tools after all but recently this weekend I decided to give even G another look because as I dug into it more and more and more I found out that it basically supports like every platform as long as you can get an image legitimately you can add it to even G and the next thing you know you may be able to lab SD win or Palo Alto or firepower for security on top of the classic things like iOS devices CS are 1,000 bees and Nexus devices and ASA's so for me as I'm going for the Encore first because that counts as the written portion of the CCIE and then the CCIE lab it was important to me to have a great emulation and simulation tool so that I can lab up some really cool stuff beyond that I love that it has the ability to bridge out to my network so that I can use my network automation tools like ansible to connect into all these devices and get them up and running quickly let me show you we're testing out this video in beautiful 4k today guys let me know what you think about 4k or if I should just stick to the 1080 and 60 frames a second as I get signed into Eve's you can see I've got even G Pro up and running here I've got this little hello world lab this is a pretty cool landing page first of all because this is a beautiful GUI where you can manage all of your labs and maybe you've got multiple users here and they have their own labs you can organize your different labs based on what you're trying to perform there's also the traditional management and system stuff that you can do all at the top beyond this this is just running on Ubuntu Linux so you can SSH into this device and run sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade and so on if fact when you do even she Pro if you want to use docker containers within your environment you do need to actually SSH you in and perform those operations another thing I'll say about even G is you see I've got switches and routers here and there's also nexus images and aasa images here's the thing even G doesn't come with any of these images by default you have to download them yourself probably from viral if you've already purchased viral and then walk through a process to add them it is a little heavy lifting David bumble does a great video on how to get these added as well as the even G documentation will walk you through all those steps to so we can see I've got this environment here full of routers and switches if I hold control I can click on multiple groups of them say I'm clicking on all these routers and switches and then I can right-click on one of them and choose start selected and that'll boot up each one of these devices on their own now we'll take about three or four minutes for these to boot up and while these are booting up let me tell you about the environment this is running on you see when you download Eve in G you have the option of downloading an OVF or an ISO and a lot of walkthrough guides say download the OVF and then you can use VMware Workstation an app that you install on your laptop or desktop to import the OVF what an OVF is is an exported virtual machine somebody spun this up in a VMware environment and then exported everything out for you so that you could just import it into your environment but see me I'm running ESXi version 6.0 update 3 and that came with some issues for me I couldn't just import the OVF file straight here because the OVF was exported from a newer version of ESXi so if you're gonna try and run this on an ESXi host you'll probably have to download the ISO and walk through the traditional installation process yourself worth pointing out the network - there's only one NIC that's required to make this thing running and you can bridge your nodes that are running in even G out to that network so make sure it's on there so make sure your VM is connected to the right port group so that all of your nodes are bridged out to the correct VLAN I can bring up the console of one of these devices we can see how everything is going so far it looks like they're all up and running but these just have a basse config at this point they don't have much going on because all I've done is given them connectivity out to the management network what I need to do now is I need to run my ansible playbook that stands up all of their base configs in my lab so that I could take it a step further since I'm a Windows I'll run windows subsystem for Linux did you check out my recent video on how to keep going with windows subsystem for Linux an on windows subsystem for Linux I already have ansible installed so I'll change directories into the folder where I have my ansible playbook and I'll run ansible playbook base config dot you know I forgot to start two important nodes that are run in that playbook r7 and r8 and now that our seven or eight are up and running our for real run this playbook [Music] and just like that my lab is stood up now in r1 if I run say show IP interface brief look at that there's all my addressing created a loopback everything is stood up if I say to you show IP ospf interface brief I can see I've got my interfaces participating in OSPF they're still forming the adjacencies and there we have it now I'm ready to start digging into things like bgp MPLS layer 3 VPN and so on but beyond that I can do things like adding new nodes like the docker node or a Linux VM this even supports Windows Server nodes so you could add say an active directory server or DNS server or a certificate server other cool things that you can do is you can simulate LAN links for instance if I right click on this link here I can choose any quality and down here I can choose to add delay jitter loss even throttle the bandwidth you can even make them look pretty by just editing the style here and say choosing a different color or choosing a different line style which is pretty fantastic there's a lot of other options you could do to make your lab really your own lab over here like building based startup configs in case you ever have to wipe the configs out on machines you can restore a lot of what you've done and it's also where you can add external networks like bridging out to your LAN or even to a different cloud or a different VLANs small things like even changing between light mode and dark mode are possible so yeah I really love even G I'm having a blast with it now I haven't done too much with Cisco modeling labs the new viral 2.0 but it seems to be very comparable to even G and capabilities and everything like that keith is actually live streaming his take on Cisco modeling labs and demoing a lot of the capabilities there so I'd encourage you guys to jump over to Keith Barker's channel and check out what he has to say there but that's my take on even G and that's how I'm using to get started as I prepare for CCI 8 thanks for stopping by oh let's see in the next one

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Id: QCrB2021nCk

Length: 7min 23sec (443 seconds)

Published: Wed May 13 2020