Objectives

• Describe the constitution and development of DCs.
• Describe the development phases of data center network definitions.
• Describe the key IT technologies of DCs.
• Illustrate the key network technologies of DCs.
• Describe the development trend and challenges of DCNs.
• Describe the architecture and core components of the CloudFabric Solution.
• Describe the application scenarios of the CloudFabric Solution.
• Describe typical functions and features of the CloudFabric Solution.
• Describe the network requirements of DCs and how VXLAN meets these requirements.
• Describe basic concepts of VXLAN.
• Describe fundamentals of VXLAN.
• Understand concepts and fundamentals of EVPN.
• Understand the combination of EVPN and VXLAN technologies.
• Describe fundamentals of multicast VXLAN.
• Describe the application of VXLAN in Data Center Interconnect (DCI).
• Describe the definition of microsegmentation.
• Distinguish between traditional network segmentation and microsegmentation.
• Describe the forwarding model of microsegmentation.
• Describe the working mechanism of microsegmentation.
• Understand the deployment of microsegmentation in typical scenarios.
• Describe the principles of SFC.
• Describe the background of server virtualization.
• Describe the applications of network virtualization in DCs.
• Describe the technical fundamentals of network virtualization in server virtualization.
• Describe the OpenStack architecture.
• Describe key components of OpenStack.
• Describe the functions and architecture of OpenStack Neutron.
• Describe OpenStack applications.
• Describe basic concepts of microservices.
• Describe the basic concepts of the Docker.
• Describe the K8s component architecture and three typical networking solutions.
• Know development trend of the computing industry and basic concepts of parallel computing.
• Know concepts, scenarios, cluster architecture, key components, and working principles of HPC.
• Know concepts and scenarios of AI and deep learning.
• Know basic process of distributed training.
• Understand development of storage technologies.
• Understand enterprise storage classification and product structure.
• Understand storage network protocols.
• Know storage media.
• Describe the development trend of intelligent and lossless network technologies.
• Describe the working principles of key technologies of the intelligent and lossless network.
• Describe the Typical Scenarios of Intelligent Lossless Networks.
• Distinguish the requirements and characteristics of the CloudFabric Solution in computing and hosting scenarios.
• Describe the architecture of the CloudFabric Solution in computing and hosting scenarios.
• Describe the service provisioning process of the CloudFabric Solution in computing and hosting scenarios.
• Describe the architecture, key components, and functions of the CloudFabric cloud-network integration solution.
• Describe the architecture, key components, and functions of the CloudFabric container network solution.
• Describe the service process for interconnection between the CloudFabric Solution and OpenStack cloud platform.
• Describe the service process for interconnection between the CloudFabric Solution and Kubernetes container platform.
• Describe the deployment process of the CloudFabric cloud-network integration solution in the OpenStack scenario.
• Describe the common service models of the CloudFabric cloud-network integration solution in the OpenStack scenario.
• Deploy tenant network services.
• Describe the working principle of secondary service restoration.
• Manage computing resources of a DC.
• Describe the application scenarios, networking solutions and principles of the Multi-PoD solution.
• Describe the application scenarios, networking solutions and principles of the Multi-Site solution.
• Describe the application scenarios, networking solutions and principles of the hybrid cloud solution.
• Describe the basic concepts, typical application scenarios, and network challenges of diversified computing.
• Select a proper lossless network solution based on the actual diversified computing scenario.
• Complete lossless network planning and design for supercomputing and AI computing centers based on actual requirements.
• Understand the development trend and classification of enterprise storage.
• Understand centralized storage and distributed storage architectures and their typical networks.
• Understand the CloudFabric intelligent and lossless storage network solution.
• Describe the architecture of the data center network (DCN) security solution.
• Describe the deployment architecture of value-added service (VAS) devices.
• Describe the VAS orchestration principle and traffic model.
• Be familiar with the architecture of Huawei's CloudFabric solution.
• Complete the underlay and overlay network design for a DCN based on actual requirements.
• Describe the multi-PoD and multi-site solutions of a DCN and their interconnection modes.
• Complete the high reliability, network security, and network management and O&M design for a DCN based on actual requirements.
• Describe how to apply for, plan, and allocate IPv6 addresses on DCNs.
• Describe the working principles of key IPv6 evolution technologies for DCNs.
• Describe the IPv6 evolution solution for DCNs.
• Describe the process and content of IPv6 service rollout on DCNs.
• Describe pain points of the traditional DCN O&M and the Reason Why Intelligent O&M Is Required.
• Describe O&M functions and features of iMaster NCE-Fabric.
• Describe application scenarios of iMaster NCE-FabricInsight.
• Describe main functions and features of iMaster NCE-FabricInsight.
• Describe typical O&M modes of a DCN.
• Describe the troubleshooting process of DCN faults.
• Describe the network service open programmability evolution, technologies, capabilities, features, and application scenarios.
• Describe the overall CloudFabric network service open programmability solution.
• Describe the open programmability of iMaster NCE-Fabric for northbound processes.
• Describe the open programmability of iMaster NCE-Fabric for heterogeneous network management and control.

Target Audience

• Personnel who wants to become data center network experts
• Personnel who wants to achieve HCIE-Data Center Network certification

Prerequisites

• Be familiar with common operations on Huawei network devices.
• Knowledge skills described in the HCIP-Datacom-Core Technology course.

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