Software-Defined Data Centers (SDDC)
Software-Defined Data Centers are products or solutions that allow their users to consume dynamic compute, storage and network resources controlled through an API-driven orchestration system. Well-known products in this category include OpenStack, VMware NSX and Cisco ACI.
ipSpace.net content will help you understand the networking-related SDDC technologies and architectures.
Webinar Roadmap
We would suggest you take this path through the SDDC webinars:
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These SDDC webinars are available to all paying ipSpace.net subscribers for the duration of their subscription:
Introduction to Software-Defined Data Centers (SDDC): This webinar describes the concepts of Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC) including software-defined storage, network connectivity and network services using VMware NSX/VSAN as a real-life example.
Technology track
Networking in Private and Public Clouds: This 5-hour webinar describes the networking requirements of various
cloud services (from infrastructure virtualization to
software-as-a-service solutions) and designs you can use to build
data center networks that support them.
The webinar focuses on IaaS networking scalability and helps you
select the most appropriate architecture for your environment based
on the number of physical servers and tenants you envision in
your environment.
Overlay Virtual Networking: This vendor-agnostic webinar briefly revisits the networking needs
of server virtualization and IaaS cloud computing and describes
the benefits and drawbacks of overlay virtual networks as compared
to traditional VLAN-based solutions.
The second half of the webinar dives deep into packet walks --
from simple layer-2 overlay networks to distributed layer-3 forwarding.
Virtual Firewalls: This webinar will walk you through the virtual firewalls taxonomy, describe the major architectural options, and illustrate typical use cases. The webinar assumes familiarity with virtual networking concepts and VMware networking solutions.
Products track
VMware NSX, Cisco ACI or Standard-Based EVPN: Are you building a new data center fabric? Trying to decide whether to use
VMware NSX or Cisco ACI? How about EVPN? This fast-paced webinar will help
you select the best option for your environment.
VMware NSX Technical Deep Dive: This webinar describes VMware NSX principles, architecture and components, including overlay virtual networking, physical-to-virtual gateways, network services and security.
Cisco ACI Introduction: This webinar describes Cisco ACI from multiple viewpoints, introduces the reasons
we migrated from STP/vPC to VXLAN and overlay networks, gives you an overview
of Cisco ACI architecture and its components, and introduces the challenges of
APIC controller resilience and scalability.
The second half of the webinar describes more complex Cisco ACI architectures,
from stretched fabrics to multi-site deployments.
Cisco ACI Deep Dive: This webinar covers advanced Cisco ACI topics from infrastructure components and protocols to managed objects, VMM integration, and automation... not from a merely theoretical point of view, but from a perspective of a networking engineer with hands-on ACI design, installation and deployment experience.
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Workshop Slide Decks
Standard ipSpace.net subscription includes access to slide decks of several SDDC-related workshop.
Free content
These Software-Defined Data Centers (SDDC) webinars include free content: