Network Virtualization

Network Virtualization

1. Cloud Computing

   • Cloud Overview
   • Cloud Services
     • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     • Platform as a Service (PaaS)
     • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
   • Cloud Models
     • Public clouds
     • Private clouds
     • Hybrid clouds
     • Community clouds
   • Cloud Computing versus Data Center
     • Data center:
     • Cloud computing

2. Virtualization

   • Cloud Computing and Virtualization
   • Dedicated Servers
     • Web Server
     • Email Server
     • SQL Server
     • File Server
     • DHCP Server
     • Active Directory Server AD
     • AAA Radius Server
     • NMS
   • Server Virtualization
     • Hypervisor OS Installation
   • Advantages of Virtualization
     • Less equipment is required
     • Less energy is consumed
     • Less space is required
   • Abstraction Layers
     • Services
     • OS
     • Firmware
     • Hardware
   • Type 2 Hypervisors

3. Virtual Network Infrastructure

   • Type 1 Hypervisors
   • Installing a VM on a Hypervisor
   • The Complexity of Network Virtualization

4. Software-Defined Networking

   • Control Plane and Data Plane
     • Layer 3 Switch and CEF
     • SDN and Central Controller
     • Management Plane
   • Network Virtualization Technologies
     • Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
     • Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
     • SDN
       • OpenFlow
       • OpenStack
       • Other components
   • Traditional and SDN Architectures

5. Controllers

   • SDN Controller and Operations
     • Flow Table
     • Group Table
     • Meter Table
   • Core Components of ACI
     • Application Network Profile (ANP)
     • Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC)
     • Cisco Nexus 9000 Series switches
   • Spine-Leaf Topology
   • SDN Types
     • Device-based SDN
     • Controller-based SDN
     • Policy-based SDN

6. APIC-EM Features

   • APIC-EM Path Trace