Storage and network virtualization
Learn about how storage and network resources can be virtualized to support software defined datacenters.
Learning objectives
In this module, you will:
- Recall the design considerations in datacenter networks and describe the need for virtualization to support multiple tenants
- Compare and contrast traditional datacenter networks and software-defined networking (SDN) for the purposes of multi-tenant networks
- List the various types of storage systems used in datacenters
- Compare and contrast traditional datacenter storage and software-defined storage (SDS) and list some of the benefits of SDS
In partnership with Dr. Majd Sakr and Carnegie Mellon University.
Prerequisites
- Understand what cloud computing is, including cloud service models, and common cloud providers
- Know the technologies that enable cloud computing
- Understand how cloud service providers pay for and bill for the cloud
- Know what datacenters are and why they exist
- Know how datacenters are set up, powered, and provisioned
- Understand how cloud resources are provisioned and metered
- Be familiar with the concept of virtualization
- Know what the different types of virtualization are
- Understand CPU virtualization
- Understand memory virtualization
- Understand I/O virtualization