12 Openstack courses in Liverpool

OPENSTACK FOR NFV AND SDN COURSE DESCRIPTION OpenStack is predominately a cloud management technology. This course looks at how OpenStack can be used in a NFV and SDN environment. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Describe the architecture of NFV. * Explain the relationship between NFV and SDN. * Implement NFV VIM using OpenStack. * Explain how OpenStack as VNFM and orchestrator works. OPENSTACK FOR NFV AND SDN COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Anyone wishing to implement NFV using OpenStack. * Prerequisites: Introduction to Virtualization * Duration 3 day OPENSTACK FOR NFV AND SDN COURSE CONTENT * What is NFV? * What is NFV? What are network Functions? NFV benefits, NFV market drivers. ETSI NFV framework. ETSI documents, Architecture overview, compute domain, hypervisor domain, infrastructure network domain. * What is OpenStack? Virtual machines, clouds, management. OpenStack architecture, OpenStack modules. Why OpenStack for NFV? Hands on OpenStack installation. * OpenStack Virtualization and NFV Server, storage and network virtualization and NFV. Where OpenStack fits in the ETSI framework. Virtual machines, containers and docker. Data centres, clouds, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS. Hands on OpenStack Iaas, OpenStack Nova. * The virtualization layer VM centric model, containers versus hypervisors, FD.io. Hands on OpenStack as the VIM. * OpenStack Neutron VXLAN, Networks, subnets, ports. Security groups. Routers. Service and component hierarchy. Hands on Implementing a virtual network with OpenStack Neutron. Virtualization of Network Functions Network virtualization versus Network Function virtualization. * NFV MANO Management and Orchestration. Where OpenStack fits. MANO descriptors, Open orchestration. OpenStack Tacker, Open MANO, OpenBaton, other orchestrators. * OpenStack Tacker Installation, getting started, configuration. SFC and OpenStack. Hands on Deploying a VNF. * OPNFV What is OPNFV, Where OpenStack fits into OPNFV. * SDN What is SDN? Control and data planes. SDN controllers. Classic SDN versus real SDN. Hybrid SDN, network automation, SDN with overlays. Northbound, southbound, SDN protocols, OpenFlow, OpenDaylight, ONOS, SDN with NFV. SDN and OpenStack. * Summary Deploying NFV, performance, testing. Futures

INTRO TO CONTAINERS TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION This course looks at the technologies of containers and microservices. The course starts with a look at what containers are, moving onto working with containers. Networking containers and container orchestration is then studied. The course finishes with monitoring containers with Prometheus and other systems. Hands on sessions are used to reinforce the theory rather than teach specific products, although Docker and Kubernetes are used. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Use containers. * Build containers. * Orchestrate containers. * Evaluate container technologies. INTRO TO CONTAINERS TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Those wishing to work with containers. * Prerequisites: Introduction to virtualization. * Duration 2 days INTRO TO CONTAINERS TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * What are containers? Virtualization, VMs, What are containers? What are microservices? Machine containers, application containers. Benefits. * Container runtime tools Docker, LXC, Windows containers. Architecture, components. Hands on Installing Docker client and server. * Working with containers Docker workflow, Docker images, Docker containers, Dockerfile, Building, running, storing images. Creating containers. Starting, stopping and controlling containers. Public repositories, private registries. Hands on Exploring containers. * Microservices What are microservices? Modular architecture, IPC. Hands on Persistence and containers. * Networking containers Linking, no networking, host, bridge. The container Network Interface. Hands on Container networking * Container orchestration engines Docker swarm: Nodes, services, tasks. Apache Mesos: Mesos master, agents, frameworks. Kubernetes: Kubectl, master node, worker nodes. Openstack: Architecture, containers in OpenStack. Amazon ECS: Architecture, how it works. Hands on Setup and access a Kubernetes cluster. * Managing containers Monitoring, logging, collecting metrics, cluster monitoring tools: Heapster. Hands on Using Prometheus with Kubernetes.

NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION This course covers network virtualization. It has been designed to enable network engineers to recognise and handle the requirements of networking Virtual Machines. Both internal and external network virtualization is covered along with the technologies used to map overlay networks on to the physical infrastructure. Hands on sessions are used to reinforce the theory rather than teach specific manufacturer implementations. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Evaluate network virtualization implementations and technologies. * Connect Virtual Machines with virtual switches. * Explain how overlay networks operate. * Describe the technologies in overlay networks. NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Engineers networking virtual machines. * Prerequisites: Introduction to virtualization. * Duration 2 days NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * Virtualization review Hypervisors, VMs, containers, migration issues, Data Centre network design. TOR and spine switches. VM IP addressing and MAC addresses. Hands on VM network configuration * Network virtualization What is network virtualization, internal virtual networks, external virtual networks. Wireless network virtualization: spectrum, infrastructure, air interface. Implementations: Open vSwitch, NSX, Cisco, others. Hands on VM communication over the network. * Single host network virtualization NICs, vNICs, resource allocation, vSwitches, tables, packet walks. vRouters. Hands on vSwitch configuration, MAC and ARP tables. * Container networks Single host, network modes: Bridge, host, container, none. Hands on Docker networking. * Multi host network virtualization Access control, path isolation, controllers, overlay networks. L2 extensions. NSX manager. OpenStack neutron. Packet walks. Distributed logical firewalls. Load balancing. Hands on Creating, configuring and using a distributed vSwitch. * Mapping virtual to physical networks VXLAN, VTEP, VXLAN encapsulation, controllers, multicasts and VXLAN. VRF lite, GRE, MPLS VPN, 802.1x. Hands on VXLAN configuration. * Orchestration vCenter, vagrant, OpenStack, Kubernetes, scheduling, service discovery, load balancing, plugins, CNI, Kubernetes architecture. Hands on Kubernetes networking. * Summary Performance, NFV, automation. Monitoring in virtual networks.

ESSENTIAL SDN TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION Software Defined Networking (SDN) has become one of the industries most talked technologies. This training course cuts through the hype and looks at the technology, architecture and products available for SDN along with looking at the impact it may have on your network. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Explain how SDN works. * Describe the architecture of SDN. * Explain the relationship between SDN and OpenFlow. * Recognise the impact SDN will have on existing networks. ESSENTIAL SDN TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Anyone wishing to know more about SDN. * Prerequisites: None. * Duration 2 days ESSENTIAL SDN TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * Introduction What is SDN? What is OpenFlow? SDN benefits. The SDN stack and architecture. * SDN architecture SDN applications, SDN switches, SDN controllers, Network Operating Systems. Control plane, data plane. Control to Data Plane Interface (CDPI), Northbound interfaces. SDN components, control and data plane abstractions. * Network Operating Systems Finding the topology, Global view, control program, configuration based on views, graph algorithm. * OpenFlow Just one part of SDN. Open Networking Foundation, OpenFlow ports, Flow tables, OpenFlow Channels. The OpenFlow protocol, OpenFlow header, OpenFlow operations. OpenFlow versus OpFlex. * SDN and open source OpenDaylight, OpenVSwitch, Open Networking Forum, Open Network Operating System. OpenStack Neutron. * SDN implications Separation of control and data plane, NOS running on servers, Emphasis on edge complexity, core simplicity, OpenvSwitch, Incremental migration, importance of software. SDN vs NVF.

NFV TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) brings many benefits, this training course cuts through the hype and looks at the technology, architecture and products available for NFV. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Explain how NFV works. * Describe the architecture of NFV. * Explain the relationship between NFV and SDN. * Recognise the impact NFV will have on existing networks. NFV TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Anyone wishing to know more about NFV. * Prerequisites: Introduction to Virtualization. * Duration 2 days NFV TRAINING COURSE CONTENT * Introduction What is NfV? What are network Functions? NfV benefits, NfV market drivers. ETSI NfV framework. * Virtualization review Server, storage and network virtualization and NfV. Virtual machines, containers and docker. Data centres, clouds, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS. * Virtualization of Network Functions Network virtualization versus Network Function virtualization. * ETSI NfV architecture ETSI documents, Architecture overview, compute domain, hypervisor domain, infrastructure network domain. * IETF and NfV Creating services, Service Functions, Service Function Chaining. SPRING and source packet routing. YANG and NetConf. RESTCONF. VLANs, VPNs, VXLAN. * MANO Management and Orchestration. OpenStack, OpenDaylight PaaS and NfV. The VNF domain. Service graphs, MANO descriptors, Open orchestration. * The virtualization layer VM centric model, containers versus hypervisors, FD.io. * Summary Deploying NfV, performance, testing. Futures.

HP IMC FOR ENGINEERS TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION A hands on course focusing on network management using HP iMC on Microsoft Windows or UNIX. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Describe the network management architecture. * Use HP NNMi. * Diagnose faults using HP iMC. * Recognise the MIB structure. HP IMC FOR ENGINEERS TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Network administrators. Network operators Those wishing to find out more about how their NMS works Anyone wishing to implement NFV using OpenStack. * Prerequisites: Introduction to Virtualization * Duration 2 day HP IMC FOR ENGINEERS TRAINING COURSE CONTENT * Network management What is network management? Benefits, issues. * Getting started with HP iMC Starting HP iMC, IP discovery, IP monitoring, controlling IP discovery. Hands on Initial HP iMC configuration. * Using HP iMC Viewing devices, Device view, IP view, network view, polling. Hands on Using HP iMC. * Agents Configuring Cisco devices for SNMP support, communities, traps, syslog. Hands on Configuring network devices for HP iMC. * Parts of SNMP SNMP architecture, MIBs, The protocol. HP iMC SNMP configuration. Hands on HP iMC SNMP configuration. * MIBs The MIB2 groups, additional MIBs, MIB compilers, vendor MIBs. HP iMC MIB loader and browser. Hands on MIB browsing. * Monitoring devices Polling, obtaining MIB information. Hands on HP iMC performance management. * Configuration and change management Configuration templates, software library, configuration compare, configuration audit and reports. Hands on Using the configuration center. * Reports Report templates, Real time reports, scheduling reports. Hands on Using real time reports. * HP iMC fault management Alarms, polling, fault management, setting thresholds and configuring traps. Syslog. Hands on Working with alarms. Security alarms.

UNIX VIRTUALIZATION AND HIGH AVAILABILITY COURSE DESCRIPTION This course covers administering UNIX enterprise-wide with an emphasis on virtualization and high availability. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Manage Virtual Machines. * Manage containers. * Manage HA clusters. * Manage HA cluster storage. UNIX VIRTUALIZATION AND HIGH AVAILABILITY COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Enterprise-level UNIX professional. UNIX professionals working with virtualization and/or High availability. * Prerequisites: Linux network administration 2 (LPIC-2) * Duration 5 days UNIX VIRTUALIZATION AND HIGH AVAILABILITY COURSE CONTENTS * VIRTUALIZATION * Virtualization concepts and theory Terminology, Pros and Cons of virtualization, variations of Virtual Machine monitors, migration of physical to VMs, migration of VMs between host systems, cloud computing. * Xen Xen architecture, networking and storage, Xen configuration, Xen utilities, troubleshooting Xen installations, XAPI, XenStore, Xen Boot Parameters, the xm utility. * KVM KVM architecture, networking and storage, KVM configuration, KVM utilities, troubleshooting KVM installations. * Other virtualization solutions OpenVZ and LXC, other virtualization technologies, virtualization provisioning tools. * Libvirt and Related Tools libvirt architecture, networking and storage, basic technical knowledge of libvirt and virsh, oVirt. * Cloud Management Tools Basic feature knowledge of OpenStack and CloudStack, awareness of Eucalyptus and OpenNebula. * Containers Containers versus VMs, Docker, Kubernetes. * Load balanced clusters of LVS/IPVS, VRRP, configuration of keepalived, configuration of ldirectord, backend server network configuration. HAProxy, configuration of HAProxy. * Failover clusters Pacemaker architecture and components (CIB, CRMd, PEngine, LRMd, DC, STONITHd), Pacemaker cluster configuration, Resource classes (OCF, LSB, Systemd, Upstart, Service, STONITH, Nagios), Resource rules and constraints (location, order, colocation), Advanced resource features (templates, groups, clone resources, multi-state resources), Pacemaker management using pcs, Pacemaker management using crmsh, configuration and management of corosync in conjunction with Pacemaker, other cluster engines (OpenAIS, Heartbeat, CMAN). * HIGH AVAILABILITY CLUSTER STORAGE * DRBD/cLVM DRBD resources, states and replication modes, configuration of DRBD resources, networking, disks and devices, configuration of DRBD automatic recovery and error handling, management of DRBD using drbdadm. drbdsetup and drbdmeta, Integration of DRBD with Pacemaker, cLVM, integration of cLVM with Pacemaker. * Clustered File Systems Principles of cluster file systems. Create, maintain and troubleshoot GFS2 file systems in a cluster, create, maintain and troubleshoot OCFS2 file systems in a cluster, Integration of GFS2 and OCFS2 with Pacemaker, the O2CB cluster stack, other commonly used clustered file systems.

LINUX VIRTUALIZATION AND HA TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION The LPIC-3 certification is the culmination of LPI's multi -level professional certification program. LPIC-3 is designed for the enterprise-level Linux professional and represents the highest level of professional, distribution neutral Linux certification within the industry. LPIC-3 304 covers administering Linux enterprise-wide with an emphasis on virtualization and high availability. At SNT we have enhanced the contents of the course by covering containers. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Manage Virtual Machines. * Manage containers. * Manage HA clusters. * Manage HA cluster storage. LINUX VIRTUALIZATION AND HA TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Linux professionals working with virtualization and/or High availability. * Prerequisites: Linux network administration 2 (LPIC-2) * Duration 5 days LINUX VIRTUALIZATION AND HA TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * VIRTUALIZATION * Virtualization concepts and theory Terminology, Pros and Cons of virtualization, variations of Virtual Machine monitors, migration of physical to VMs, migration of VMs between host systems, cloud computing. * Xen Xen architecture, networking and storage, Xen configuration, Xen utilities, troubleshooting Xen installations, XAPI, XenStore, Xen Boot Parameters, the xm utility. * KVM KVM architecture, networking and storage, KVM configuration, KVM utilities, troubleshooting KVM installations. * Other virtualization solutions OpenVZ and LXC, other virtualization technologies, virtualization provisioning tools. * Libvirt and Related Tools libvirt architecture, networking and storage, basic technical knowledge of libvirt and virsh, oVirt. * Cloud Management Tools Basic feature knowledge of OpenStack and CloudStack, awareness of Eucalyptus and OpenNebula. * Containers Containers versus VMs, Docker, Kubernetes. * Load balanced clusters of LVS/IPVS, VRRP, configuration of keepalived, configuration of ldirectord, backend server network configuration. HAProxy, configuration of HAProxy. * Failover clusters Pacemaker architecture and components (CIB, CRMd, PEngine, LRMd, DC, STONITHd), Pacemaker cluster configuration, Resource classes (OCF, LSB, Systemd, Upstart, Service, STONITH, Nagios), Resource rules and constraints (location, order, colocation), Advanced resource features (templates, groups, clone resources, multi-state resources), Pacemaker management using pcs, Pacemaker management using crmsh, configuration and management of corosync in conjunction with Pacemaker, other cluster engines (OpenAIS, Heartbeat, CMAN). * HIGH AVAILABILITY CLUSTER STORAGE * DRBD/cLVM DRBD resources, states and replication modes, configuration of DRBD resources, networking, disks and devices, configuration of DRBD automatic recovery and error handling, management of DRBD using drbdadm. drbdsetup and drbdmeta, Integration of DRBD with Pacemaker, cLVM, integration of cLVM with Pacemaker. * Clustered File Systems Principles of cluster file systems. Create, maintain and troubleshoot GFS2 file systems in a cluster, create, maintain and troubleshoot OCFS2 file systems in a cluster, Integration of GFS2 and OCFS2 with Pacemaker, the O2CB cluster stack, other commonly used clustered file systems.

NETWORK AUTOMATION TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION This course concentrates on the technical side of tools and languages for network DevOps rather than the soft skills. These tools include Python, Ansible, Git and NAPALM By the end of the course delegates should be able to recognise the tools that they can use to automate their networks and be able to use the knowledge gained to feel confident approaching network automation. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Describe network DevOps. * Choose network automation tools. * Explain the role of various network automation technologies including: Python Ansible Git NAPALM NETWORK AUTOMATION TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Those wishing to learn about the tools of network automation. * Prerequisites: Introduction to data communications. * Duration 1 day NETWORK AUTOMATION TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * What is DevOps and network automation Programming and automating networks, networks and clouds, AWS, OpenStack, SDN, DevOps for network operations. Unit testing. Hype vs reality. Benefits and features. * Network monitoring and troubleshooting Traditional methods, SNMP. Netflow and xflow. Traditional automation. Streaming telemetry. Event driven automation. gRPC, Protocol buffers. * Configuration management Catch 22 and initial configuration. ZTP, POAP. Traditional automation. TFTP. Ansible vs the rest (chef, salt, puppet). Jinja2 and templating. How ansible works. * Network programmability Programming languages. Linux, shell scripting. Python vs the rest. Off box vs on box automation. * Python network libraries Sockets pysnmp, ncclient, paramiko, netmiko, pyez, NAPALM. * APIs Proprietary APIs, CLI, NETCONF, RETCONF. YANG, XML, YAML, JSON. * Other tools Git, GitHub, Jenkins, JIRA and others.

NETWORK DEVOPS COURSE DESCRIPTION This course is not a soft skills course covering the concepts of DevOps but instead concentrates on the technical side of tools and languages for network DevOps. Particular technologies focussed on are ansible, git and Python enabling delegates to leave the course ready to starting automating their network. Hands on sessions follow all major sections. More detailed courses on individual aspects of this course are available. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Evaluate network automation tools. * Automate tasks with ansible. * Use git for version control. * Use Python to manage network devices. * Use Python libraries for network devices. NETWORK DEVOPS COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Administrators automating tasks. * Prerequisites: TCP/IP Foundation * Duration 5 days NETWORK DEVOPS COURSE CONTENTS * What is DevOps Programming and automating networks, networks and clouds, AWS, OpenStack, SDN, DevOps for network operations. * Initial configuration Configuring SSH, ZTP, POAP. Hands on Initial lab configuration. * Getting started with ansible The language, the engine, the framework. Uses of ansible, orchestration. The architecture, Controlling machines, nodes, Agentless, SSH, modules. Configuration management, inventories, playbooks, modules, roles. Hands on Installing ansible, running ad hoc commands. * Ansible playbooks ansible-playbook, YAML, plays, tasks, handlers, modules. Playbook variables. Register module, debug module. Hands on Running playbooks. * Ansible Inventories /etc/ansible/hosts, hosts, groups, static inventories, dynamic inventories. Inventory variables, external variables. Limiting hosts. Hands on Static inventories, variables in inventory files. * Ansible modules for networking Built in modules, custom modules, return values. Core modules for network operations. Cisco and/or Juniper modules. ansible_connection. Ansible 2.6 CLI. Hands on Using modules. * Ansible templating and roles aConfiguration management, full configurations, partial configurations. The template module, the assemble module, connection: local, Jinja2 templates, variables, if, for, roles. Hands on Generating multiple configurations from a template. * Network programming and modules Why use Python? Why use ansible? alternatives, ansible tower, Linux network devices. * Programming with Python Python programming Functions. Classes, objects and instances, modules, libraries, packages. Python strings, Python file handling, pip list, pip instal. Hands on Python programming with pyping. * More Python programming Functions. Classes, objects and instances, modules, libraries, packages. Python strings, Python file handling, pip list, pip install. Hands on Python programming with pyping. * Git Distributed version control, repositories, Git and GitHub, Alternatives to GitHub, Installing git, git workflows, creating repositories, adding and editing files, branching and merging, merge conflicts. Hands on working with Git. * Python and networking APIs, Sockets, Telnetlib, pysnmp, ncclient, ciscoconfparse. * Paramiko SSH and Netmiko Integrating Python and network devices using SSH. Netmiko, Netmiko methods. Hands on Netmiko. * NAPALM What is NAPALM, NAPALM operations, getters, Replace, merge, compare, commit, discard. Hands on Configuration with NAPALM. Integrating ansible and NAPALM. * Python and REST REST APIs, enabling the REST API. Accessing the REST API with a browser, cURL, Python and REST, the request library. Hands on Using a REST API with network devices.