OpenStack for NFV and SDN

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

OpenStack for NFV and SDN course details

Anyone wishing to implement NFV using OpenStack.

Introduction to Virtualization

3 day

NFV benefits, NFV market drivers. ETSI NFV
framework. ETSI documents, Architecture
overview, compute domain, hypervisor domain,
infrastructure network domain.

Virtual machines, clouds, management.
OpenStack architecture, OpenStack modules.
Why OpenStack for NFV?
Hands on OpenStack
installation.

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.

VM centric model, containers versus
hypervisors, FD.io.
Hands on OpenStack as the
VIM.

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.

Management and Orchestration. Where
OpenStack fits. MANO descriptors, Open
orchestration. OpenStack Tacker, Open MANO,
OpenBaton, other orchestrators.

Installation, getting started, configuration. SFC
and OpenStack.
Hands on Deploying a VNF.

What is OPNFV, Where OpenStack fits into
OPNFV.

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.

Deploying NFV, performance, testing. Futures