Hardware Offload and Virtualization
Decide what the card should do, and prove it was the right call.
4 courses16 labs
cloud, NFV, and security engineers who need line-rate performance in virtual environments.
What you will be able to do
- Choose between SR-IOV, passthrough, virtio, and offloaded vSwitches for a given workload.
- Offload encryption and virtual-switch work to a NIC or DPU and measure the gain.
- Configure IOMMU-protected device assignment safely.
Courses
OFL-01≈ 30 h
SmartNIC and DPU Acceleration
Decide what belongs on the card, program a SmartNIC or DPU, and deploy accelerated workloads on Kubernetes.
8 units4 labs
OFL-02≈ 30 h
Crypto NIC and TLS Offload
Offload TLS to hardware, configure real servers to use it, and prove the throughput and CPU gains.
9 units4 labs
OFL-03≈ 30 h
PCIe Passthrough and Virtual Network Performance
Choose between passthrough, SR-IOV, virtio, and accelerated vSwitches for a workload, and measure the difference.
10 units4 labs
OFL-04≈ 30 h
SR-IOV: Principles and Practice
Build an SR-IOV lab from scratch and run it in a VM, a container, and a cloud platform.
8 units4 labs