Cloud, NFV and SDN

The course is designed to let the student acquire knowledge on architecture, hardware, software, services and development of Cloud Computing technologies.

Virtual Classroom Training

€ 1870*

Classroom Training

€ 1870*

eLearning

€ 595*

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This course lets the student acquire knowledge on architecture, hardware, software, services and development of Cloud Computing technologies.

The course analyzes hypervisor virtualization and container technology, and explains the difference between the cloud execution environment and cloud management. Telco cloud is discussed in the context of the ETSI NFV standard. The course also covers Software-Defined Networking and describes how NFV and SDN intersects and work together.

NOTE: This course is not delivered with the FoldOut methodology.

Course outline

Introduction
  • What is the cloud?
  • Essential cloud characteristics
  • As-a-Service models
  • Examples of Cloud Services
  • Aspects of Cloud Services
  • Private/Public/Hybrid/Multi-Cloud
Virtualization
  • Virtualization and Cloud
  • Virtualization benefits
  • Distribution of Resources
  • Single/Multi-tenancy
  • Live Migration
Hypervisor Solutions
  • Type 1 and Type 2 hypervisors
  • Desktop vs server Virtualization
  • Hardware Assist
Containers
  • Linux Containers (LXC)
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes/Redshift
  • The Cloud Native approach
Acceleration Technologies
  • SR-IOV
  • DPDK
  • Acceleration in VMs and Containers
OpenStack
  • Introduction and background
  • Components/ProjectsMain Openstack Architecture
  • Compute/Storage/Networking with Openstack
  • OpenStack in Practice
  • Bare metal deployment
  • VMWare + Openstack
Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
  • The Telco Cloud
  • ETSI NFV Standards
  • NFV main architecture
  • Official NFV Use cases
  • NFV Concerns
  • Proofs-of-Concept
  • Open Source NFV
  • VMware and Openstack in NFV
Software Defined Networking (SDN)
  • Why SDN?
  • SDN in Datacenters
  • Three variations on SDN
    • OpenFlow-Based
    • Control Plane Extensions
    • Overlay Abstraction
  • Network Operating Systems
    • OpenDayLight
    • OpenFlow
    • VxLAN
  • Example SDN service providers
  • The Bigger SDN Picture

Prerequisites

Working knowledge of computer and telecommunications systems.