Research Catalog

Title

SDN and NFV simplified : a visual guide to understanding software defined networks and network function virtualization / Jim Doherty.

Author

Doherty, Jim, 1968-

Publication

• [Upper Saddle River, N.J.] : Pearson Education, Inc., [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Description

xv, 299 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subject

Software-defined networking (Computer network technology)

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Introduction -- Part 1: Virtualization 101: The Basics of Virtualization -- 1. Primer on Virtualization -- Server Proliferation, Massive Power Bills, and Other IT Nightmares -- How Servers Work -- How VMs Fix the Underutilized Server Problem -- Enter the Hypervisor -- Why Are Virtual Machines Such a Big Deal? -- 2. Benefits of Virtual Machines -- Reduced Cost -- Less Space (Even More Cost Savings) -- Availability and Flexibility -- Faster Application Spin-Up and Provisioning -- Easier Access for Development -- Believe the Hype! -- 3. Hypervisors (VMWare, KVM, and Others) -- An Operating System for Operating Systems -- A Virtual Machine Monitor -- Types of Hypervisors -- Hypervisor Vendors -- Choosing a Hypervisor -- Summary -- 4. Managing Virtual Resources -- What Is a Workload? -- Managing Virtual Resources in the Hypervisor -- Virtual Resource Providers and Consumers -- So How Do You Manage Virtual Resources? -- Part 2: Virtualization 201: Virtualizing the Data Center (a.k.a. Clouds) -- 5. Virtualized Data Centers (Some Call Them Clouds) -- Benefits of Virtualizing the Data Center -- Is It a Cloud Yet? -- The Five Cloud Attributes -- Types of Clouds -- Software as a Service -- Infrastructure as a Service -- Platform as a Service -- Cloud Deployment Models -- 6. Virtual Machine Connectivity -- Networking in Traditional Data Centers -- Virtualized Data Center Design -- Addressing with Virtual Machines -- 7. Networking Gear in Virtualized Data Centers -- The Evolution of Data Center Switching -- Cloud and Data Center Layout and Architecture -- Virtualized Aware Network Switches -- 8. VMware, VSphere, VMotion, and VXLAN -- VMware Product Design -- vSphere -- VMotion -- VXLAN -- Summary -- 9. Multitenancy and the Problems of Communal Living -- SaaS Multitenancy -- IaaS Multitenancy -- Part 3: Network Functions Virtualized: Why Stop With Servers? -- 10. How Do You Virtualize a Network? -- Network Virtualization -- How Does This Fit with NFV and SDN? -- Virtualizing the Network -- 11. Virtualizing Appliances -- Layer 4 Through 7 Network Services -- Fighting Virtualization with Virtualization -- What's the "So What"? -- 12. Virtualizing Core Networking Functions -- Virtualization Recap -- Where Core Functions Are Being Virtualized -- 13. What About Scalability and Performance? -- Scalability Versus Performance -- Performance in Network Virtualization -- Scalability and Performance in Virtual Networks -- Scalability and Performance for Virtual Appliances -- Scalability and Performance of Virtualized Networks -- Summary -- Part 4: Modern Networking Approaches to Virtualization -- 14. From Consumers to Creators -- The Emergence of SaaS -- Cloud Business Consumer-Creators -- 15. OpenFlow -- OpenFlow History -- How OpenFlow Works -- 16. VMware Nicira -- VMware NSX -- Network Virtualization with NSX -- How VMware Leverages Nicira (NSX) -- 17. Cisco Insieme -- Cisco's Hybrid SDN Solution -- Cisco SDN and Insieme -- 18. OpenStack -- Applications on Modern Networks -- Part 5: Software Defined Networks: Virtualizing the Network -- 19. The Evolution of the Data Center Network -- Networks Worked Great, Until They Didn't -- Traditional Data Center Design Goals -- The Cost Model Explodes -- How We Got Here -- 20. What's Wrong With the Network We Have? -- A Brief Review of Networking -- Control Planes and Forwarding Planes -- The Cost of Complexity -- Decoupling Networking Applications from Networking Gear -- 21. How SDN Works -- Understanding SDN -- A Programmable Network -- So What's the "So What?" -- 22. The Economic Impact of SDN, NFV, and the Cloud -- Winners in SDN, NFV, and the Cloud -- How the "Little Guy" Wins -- How Large Enterprises Win with SDN, NFV, and the Cloud -- Losers in the Cloud -- The Economic Value of Increased Innovation -- Part 6: SDN Controllers -- 23. SDN Controllers -- Centralized Control -- Network Virtualization -- 24. The OpenDaylight Project -- 25. The Fight to Control Your Network -- Separation of Internal Controls -- You Can See It, But Who Controls It? -- 26. What's the Business Case for SDN? -- Part 7: Virtualized Networks: Connecting It All Together -- 27. Goodbye Truck Rolls -- Data Center Scale -- A New Maintenance Philosophy -- Summary -- 28. What If the Shoe Doesn't Fit? -- Where SDN Does Not Fit -- When Should You Adopt SDN? -- Stuck in the Middle -- 29. Service Chaining -- 30. NFV: What Happens to All the Network Appliances? -- How Network Appliances Are Different -- When Not to Get Rid of an Appliance -- Part 8: Security: The Security Thing -- 31. Where's My Data, Exactly? -- Storage Virtualization -- Storage-Area Networks -- Data Location and Security -- So What Are the Nontechnical Issues That We Need to Address? -- Summary -- 32. Preventing Data Leakage -- 33. Logging and Auditing -- 34. Encryption in Virtual Networks -- Data in Motion -- Data at Rest -- Key Management -- Best Practices -- 35. Everything Old Is Now New Again -- How We Got Here -- What We Have Learned -- Retro Security Considerations -- Recycled Ideas on Mobile and Web Apps -- Part 9: Visibility -- 36. Overlay Networks -- MPLS: The Original Virtual Network -- Virtual Layer 2 Designs -- Enter SDN -- Common Encapsulation Techniques -- 37. Network Management Tools -- What's in the Tool Bag? -- Tapping In -- Gaining Visibility -- 38. Quality of Experience -- 39. Monitoring Traffic Between Virtual Switches -- Getting VM Visibility -- Monitoring VM-to-VM traffic -- How VxLANs Work -- Creating a "Visibility Layer" -- Part 10: The Big Picture -- 40. Pulling It All Together -- Why the Network Had to Change -- How SDN and NFV Tie Together -- SDN's Downside: A Loss of Visibility -- SDN Orchestration -- 41. How SDN and NFV Will Affect You -- Operational Domains -- SDN Use Cases -- Embracing SDN and NFV -- 42. What's Next in Networking? -- Separate but Complementary -- Virtual Customer Premise Equipment -- Summary -- Index.

ISBN

• 9780134306407
• 0134306406

LCCN

2015956324

OCLC

• ocn946157560
• 946157560
• SCSB-9216101

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries