- Cloud Networking: Understanding Cloud-based Data Center Networks.
Gary Lee.
Morgan Kaufmann Pub, 2014
ISBN: 978-0128007280
| Lesson no. | Date | Slides / References | Topics |
| 1 | 12/03/2019 | Course introduction. Datacenter architecture and organization. Rack layout. Cabling. TIA-942 Standard. Air conditioning and cooling plant. Power. Energy efficiency of a datacenter. Power Usage Effectiveness. Datacenter Tiers (UpTime Institute classification). Modular datacenters. Small-scale sample datacenter layouts. |
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| 2 | 19/03/2019 | Ethernet switching basic concepts. Datacenter networking infrastructure. Access layer and aggregation layer. Access layer: ToR and EoR organizations. Bandwidth aggregation techniques. IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation. IEEE 802.1ax Link Aggregation Protocol LACP. |
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| 3 | 26/03/2019 |
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VLANs. VLAN trunking. Inter-VLAN routing. Multi-layer switches and Virtual Switch Interfaces. (see slides lesson no.2) Switching theory fundamentals. Head-of-Line blocking. Clos networks. Clos theorem. Loop management in Ethernet networks. STP protocol. Datacenter networks: aggregation layer. Datacenter network infrastructure evolution. |
| 4 | 02/04/2019 |
Fat-tree topology. Leaf-spine topology. Some examples of large scale datacenter networks. Fat-tree: a scalable, commodity data center network architecture. Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL) and its use in datacenter networks. Multiple path routing in datacenter networks. Equal cost multi-path (ECMP). Improving ECMP load balancing with Flowlets (FLARE). Virtualization technologies and their use in modern datacenters. A Linux-based hypervisor: KVM. |
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| IMPORTANT NOTICE | From next week on the course schedule will change!!! Lessons will be scheduled on Thursdays at 08:30-10:30 and will be held in room C5B at ground floor of building 5 in the via Claudio campus. |
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| 5 | 11/04/2019 |
Virtual switches in type-1 and type-2 hypervisors. VM networking in a Linux based host. Macvlan. Linux Bridge. Open vSwitch. Hardware support to virtualization in modern NICs: SR-IOV. Virtual networking in multitenant cloud datacenters. IEEE 802.1ad (Q-in-Q). MPLS. VXLAN. NVGRE. Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network (VXLAN): A Framework for Overlaying Virtualized Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 Networks. |
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| IMPORTANT NOTICE | In the next two weeks there will be no leassons of this course due to Easter Holidays. After the break the course schedule will change again!!! Lessons will be scheduled again on Tuesdays at 15:30-17:30 and will be held in room I5 in the via Claudio campus. |
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| 6 | 30/04/2019 |
Storage technologies for datacenters: DAS, NAS and SAN. Fibre Channel. Network convergence. iSCSI. Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). Cloud computing. Cloud service models: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS. An introduction to OpenStack. OpenStack core services. |
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| 07/05/2019 | NOTICE | Due to other official commitment, this lesson is canceled. | |
| 7 | 14/05/2019 | ||
| 8 | 16/05/2019 |
Guided tour of the SCoPE datacenter (Monte S.Angelo campus) We will meet at 09:30 at the SCoPE Control Room in Monte S. Angelo. |
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| 9 | 21/05/2019 | ||
| 10 | 28/05/2019 | ||
| 11 | 04/06/2019 |
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Last update: May 2, 2019