CCNA Lab Design

Starfish vLabs have created an LLD aligned to the blueprint of the CCNA Enterprise certification. We use this internally for exam preparation and for testing configurations. However, we would now like to share it with the wider Networking community.

In this case the lab has been designed to run in an EVE-NG environment, but it can easily be modified to run on other virtual environments or physical hardware. A follow-up blog will provide details of the configurations, which can be downloaded and edited to suit your own personal needs.

The LLD itself follows the standard Starfish format of Physical, Logical, Routing and Security. It provides mainly configuration variable information, rather than detailed narrative or explanations of the technology and protocols, which are best explained outside of an LLD. It does include various design schemes for dealing with Hostnames, Port Allocations, VLANs and IP Address Space.

To allow the flexibility to cover several CCNA Enterprise topics, multiple Spanning Tree and multiple routing protocols have been included, where in a real-world environment only one may be selected. The design has also been compiled to be extensible and allow for editing.

Within the design you will find four locations, a Headquarters and three Branch Offices. Across these locations there is a variety of devices including Cisco ASAv Firewalls, Cisco IOL (IOS Linux) Switches and a Wireless LAN Controller. I hope you will find this design useful. If you do, then please follow us on LinkedIn for more technical content.

Wiktor Fajfer