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1. Understanding the Cloud Technologies
- • What is Cloud Computing?
- • Definition of Cloud Computing
- • Deployment models
- • Service models
- • Cloud service models in practice
- • Cloud adoption and migration is workload driven
- • Infrastructure as a Service
- • Example IaaS use case: Website publishing scenario
- • Platform as a Service
- • Software as a Service
- • Implications of Cloud Computing
- • Business benefits of Cloud Computing
- • Development benefits of Cloud Computing
- • Industry impact
- • IaaS: Common storage models
- • Overview of storage options
- • IaaS: SoftLayer public cloud
- • IaaS products and services overview (SoftLayer)
- • Key takeaways: Cloud Computing
Unit 2 Platform architecture for cloud computing
- • What an IaaS provider could offer
- • What an IaaS provider could offer
- • Location location location
- • SoftLayer presence
- • The datacenter
- • Network architecture
- • Triple network architecture
- • The Orchestration Management System
- • Sample IaaS datacenter
- • Management web interface capabilities
- • Monitor/control/change instances from the web interface
- • Account administration
- • Adding users to your account
- • Defining permissions for users
- • Default permission templates
- • Defining instance access
unit 3 Server offerings in cloud computing
- • Compute Nodes in IaaS Cloud
- • IaaS cloud server offerings (SoftLayer)
- • Virtual Servers - Public node
- • Virtual Servers - Private node
- • All virtual servers:
- • Bare metal servers
- • Provisioning server instances
- • Inspecting server details
- • Upgrading or downgrading server instances
- • Accessing server instances
- • Canceling server instances
Unit 4 Storage options in cloud computing
- • Introduction to storage: Storage types
- • iSCSI: Components
- • NFS components
- • SoftLayer storage offerings: DAS/san/BLOCK
Unit 5 Networking options in cloud computing
- • The network is critical to Cloud Computing
- • Networking had to change
- • Attributes of Cloud Networking
- • Example: Data center switch network architecture
- • Virtual Ethernet switch in a virtualized server environment
- • Learning about public networks
- • Understanding the primary features
- • Understanding bandwidth
- • Learning about private networks
- • Learning about management network
- • SoftLayer network architecture
- • Using SoftLayer Looking Glass, SoftLayer's IP backbone
- • Using networking tools with Cpanel
- • Managing VPN connections to SoftLayer
- • General concept of VPN
- • Managing VPN connections to SoftLayer
- • Direct Link use case
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Unit 6 managing a simple IaaS environment
- • Basics of cloud infrastructure and components
- • Cloud service model overview
- • Platform architecture
- • Locations of platform architecture
- • Types of servers
- • Server options
- • Storage types and protocols
- • Network types
- • Basics of cloud infrastructure and components
- • Conclusion of recap
- • Technologies enabling transformation of infrastructure
- • Virtualization
- • Hypervisor
- • Provisioning
- • Managing cloud infrastructure
- • Cloud infrastructure IaaS key points
- • Managing cloud infrastructure in IaaS
Unit 7 Server offerings in cloud computing: Advanced topics
- • Introducing the image template concept
- • Image template types in SoftLayer
- • Image template types in SoftLayer: Standard images
- • Sharing, finding, and deploying the image templates
- • Provisioning scripts
- • Usage scenarios in SoftLayer
Unit 8 Storage options in cloud computing: Advanced topics
- • Backup and recovery solutions in SoftLayer
- • Snapshots and replication of Endurance storage
- • Dedicated storage
Unit 9 Networking options in cloud computing: Advanced topics
- • SoftLayer network topology
- • IP addresses in SoftLayer
- • Five steps to start using IPv6 in SoftLayer
- • Separating devices and subnets with VLANs
- • VLAN spanning
- • Load balancing options in SoftLayer
- • SoftLayer Content Delivery Network
- • EdgeCast CDN locations
- • Example SoftLayer CDN users
- • SoftLayer Content Delivery Network use case
- • Vyatta appliance
- • Introduction to OSI model
- • Understanding TCP/IP addressing and sub-netting basics
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