High-Performance Networks for Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Design the network under a hyperconverged cluster: topology, SDN, NVMe-oF storage fabrics, NFV and high availability.
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Outcomes
- Design leaf-spine fabrics for hyperconverged clusters
- Plan NVMe over Fabrics and storage traffic separation
- Build redundancy and operations runbooks for HCI networks
The lessons
Every lesson in this curriculum, in the order we teach it.
- 1Hyperconverged architecture overview
- 2The central role of networking in hyperconverged systems
- 3Networking refresher
- 4Modern data-centre network topologies and their use in hyperconverged systems
- 5Hardware selection
- 6Network virtualisation technologies
- 7Software-defined networking (SDN) basics
- 8SDN in practice for hyperconverged systems
- 9RDMA in depth
- 10NVMe over Fabrics: protocol, and its use and setup in hyperconverged storage networks
- 11Network quality of service (QoS)
- 12NFV in hyperconverged architectures
- 13Network automation and orchestration
- 14Network monitoring and telemetry
- 15Network performance benchmarking
- 16Multi-tenancy and network isolation
- 17East-west traffic optimisation
- 18North-south traffic design
- 19Converged and dedicated network policies
- 20Network high availability and redundancy design
- 21IP address management (IPAM)
- 22Network security basics
- 23Network design for specific hyperconverged scenarios
- 24Hybrid-cloud network connectivity
- 25Network troubleshooting
- 26Energy-efficient network design
- 27Future networking: implications for hyperconverged architectures
- 28Network solutions from major hyperconverged vendors analysed
- 29From design to deployment: high-performance hyperconverged networking in practice
- 30Case study: the complete design process for a high-performance hyperconverged network
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