This lab is intended to give you an overview of HPE Private Cloud AI, HPE's turnkey solution for on-prem AI workloads. HPE has paired with NVIDIA's AI Enterprise software giving customers a scalable on-prem solution that can handle multiple different AI workloads from Inference, RAG, model fine-tuning, and model training.

This lab will enable a student to build a basic Multi-Site fabric using Apstra for complete end-to-end connectivity.

This Lab guide is intended for administrators who are responsible for deploying and configuring AOS 8 solutions. Participants should have at least a basic understanding of WLAN concepts. It is assumed that participants have at least a working understanding of fundamental wireless concepts as well as Aruba technology.

The Juniper SSR SD-WAN Foundations Lab is a capability of the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) designed to showcase the concept of a Juniper Session Smart Network and demonstrates how it functions in a real-world scenario. The environment that supports the lab is completely virtual, removing any hardware dependencies associated with physical infrastructure.

The Juniper Mist Foundations Lab is designed to provide an environment to gain hands-on experience with the features of the Mist Management Portal, Mist AP's and the Juniper EX Switch line.

In this lab you will interact with HPE VM Essentials. You will be able to log into a running VME cluster, deploy VME Manager, and get a look and feel for the virtualization software that helps deliver HPE Private Cloud AI.

Service providers and other large organizations rely on MPLS quite often on multiple platforms to deliver mission critical applications and services. Segment Routing is the next generation technology that replaces MPLS, and here we look at implementing L3VPN's with Segmenting Routing on both Cisco and Juniper Routers.

In this lab a customer will deploy the Patch & Vulnerability Prioritization Agent on the HPE Private Cloud AI instance in the ATC. This Assistant is built on top of the NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit and leverages Open AI OSS NIMs under the hood. Leveraging representative data from an IT Service Management Platform, the Patch & Vulnerability Prioritization Agent

In this lab, customers will deploy the Intelligent Resource Optimizer on the HPE Private Cloud AI instance in the ATC. Built using the NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit and powered by Open AI OSS NIMs, this solution moves beyond static analysis to proactive infrastructure management. By integrating a specialized Time Series model, the Intelligent Resource Optimizer analyzes historical system utilization to accurately forecast future resource demands. This allows IT Operations teams to receive data-driven recommendations for scaling and optimization, ensuring peak performance and cost-efficiency across the environment.

This Lab will focus on the Aruba ECS (SilverPeak) appliance, which is a solution designed to enhance advanced SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Network) functionality. These appliances optimize and secure enterprise WAN traffic, delivering improved connectivity, streamlined management, and enhanced performance across distributed networks.

This Lab will focus on Aruba CX Switching. The Aruba CX switch series is built on a modern, fully programmable AOS-CX operating system. Core Switch configuration with OSPF, VSX and Access Switch configuration with OSPF. The Lab will also feature Aruba Central which is Aruba's cloud-based network management platform designed to simplify the deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting of wireless, wired, and SD-WAN networks. There will also be a focus on Aruba WLAN configuration in Central which is the process of setting up and managing Wi-Fi networks Aruba APs. Aruba Central provides a cloud-based interface for easily configuring WLANs, applying security policies, and optimizing performance across multiple locations.

The Mist Access Assurance lab is a capability of the ATC designed to provide an environment to gain experience with the features of the Mist Access Assurance solution. Juniper delivers NAC as a microservices-based solution that integrates directly into the Mist platform. This simplifies configuration, improves visibility, and enables AI-driven troubleshooting.