OpenStack for NFV and SDN

Description

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

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