Tutorial on Protocols for Data Center Network Virtualization and Cloud Computing

This 3-hour tutorial covers the following topics:

1. Part I: Network Virtualization
• Virtualization
• 5 Reasons to Virtualize
• Advantages of Virtualization
• Virtualization in Computing
• Network Virtualization
• Levels of Network Virtualization
• Network Virtualization Techniques
• Names, IDs, Locators
• Interconnection Devices
• Fallacies Taught in Networking Classes
2. Part II: Data Center Bridging
• Residential vs. Data Center Ethernet
• Link Aggregation Control Protocol
• LACP
• Spanning Tree Algorithm
• Enhancements to STP
• MSTP
• Multiple Spanning Tree
• IS-IS Protocol
• Shortest Path Bridging
• Virtual LAN
• IEEE 802.1Q-2011 Tag
• Link Layer Discovery Protocol
• LLDP
• Data Center Bridging
• Ethernet Flow Control: Pause Frame
• Priority-based Flow Control
• PFC
• Enhanced Transmission Selection
• Quantized Congestion Notification
• QCN
• DCBX
3. Part III: Carrier Ethernet
• Ethernet Provider Bridge
• PB
• Provider Backbone Network
• PBB
• MAC-in-MAC Frame Format
• PBB Service Instance
• Connection Oriented Ethernet
• VLAN Cross-Connect
• PBB-TE
• Ethernet Tagged Frame Format Evolution
• Comparison of Technologies
4. Part IV:Virtual Bridging
• vSwitch
• Virtual Bridging
• Virtual Edge Bridge
• Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator
• VEPA
• PCIe
• Single Root I/O Virtualization
• SR-IOV
• Multi-Root IOV
• Combining Bridges
• Distributed Virtual Switch
• DVS
• Fabric Extenders
• Virtual Bridge Port Extension
• VBE
5. Part V: LAN Extension and Partitioning
• Challenges of LAN Extension
• TRILL
• GRE
• NVGRE
• VXLAN
• STT
• LSO and LRO
• STT Optimizations
• STT Frame Format
• TCP-Like Header in STT
6. Overall Summary
7. Acronyms

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