Software Defined Networking (SDN) Workshop

Dates: 25-28 Oct 2021
Location: Baga Toiruu-20, Ulaanbaatar 14200
Venue: Information Technology Park, #211 Room

Synopsis

• The emergence of SDN is having a disruptive influence on the world of data networking and is leading to a fundamental re-think of how networks are architected.
• This workshop will provide an understanding of the key technology elements of SDN via a combination of lectures and hands-on exercises.

Target Audience

• Anyone currently operating an IP and/or MPLS network who is interesting in understanding the impact of SDN with a view to implementing elements of it in the near future.

Pre-requisites

• This workshop is not an introduction.
• It is assumed that the workshop participants have working knowledge of IP routing, MPLS protocols and traffic-engineering, along with know how to use a router command line interface.
• The lab exercises use IOS-XR (XRv) CLI and Ubuntu VMs

We recommend the following Academy courses be completed before the start of the tutorial:

• Routing Fundamentals: https://academy.apnic.net/en/course/routing-fundamentals-course/
• Introduction to Multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) - https://academy.apnic.net/en/webinar-courses/introduction-to-mpls-and-mpls-layer3-vpn/
• Virtual lab for MPLS LDP and MPLS Layer3 VPN (Cisco IOS) - https://academy.apnic.net/en/virtual-labs/?labId=83872

Workshop topics

• History
• Motivation for control and data plane separation
• Architectural frameworks
• OpenFlow
• Topology discovery and management
• Segment routing
• OpenDayLight

Other requirements Other requirements

• Participants are advised to bring their own laptop computers with high-speed Wi-Fi (802.11a/g/n/ac) and administrative access to system. It is also recommended that laptops have Intel i5 or i7 processor, >=8GB of RAM and 30GB of free hard disk space.
• Software: SSH Client, Telnet Client, VirtualBox/VMware
• Confirm Secure SHell (SSH) is allowed from the office or home network to access the lab infrastructure? Test ssh connectivity, try to connect to route-views.routeviews.org. For example from the CLI type: ssh rviews@route-views.routeviews.org

Workshop Items

• Agenda (includes links to presentations and schedule)
• Instructors: Warren Finch (APNIC), Dave Phelan (APNIC), Tashi Phuntsho (APNIC)

Tashi Phuntsho

Warren Finch

Dave Phelan

Virtualisation Workshop

Dates: 25-28 Oct 2021
Location: Baga Toiruu-20, Ulaanbaatar 14200
Venue: Information Technology Park, #301 Room

Workshop Topics

• Welcome, Introduction
• Virtualisation overview
• Desktop Virtualisation (VirtualBox)
• KVM and libvirt
• lvm and scripted install
• Migration and shared storage
• Ganeti
• Instance creation using ISO images
• Live migration
• Instance creation using VMDK images
• Ganeti settings
• Automated Instance creation
• Networks and VLANs
• Failure handling
• Cloud computing

Target Audience

Engineers who desire or require an in-depth knowledge of building and maintaining virtual environments.

Workshop Prerequisites

• Medium to good knowledge of the UNIX/Linux command line environment is an absolute requirement
• Basic understanding of L2/L3 technologies and TCP/IP networking and VLANs
• Participants are required to bring a laptop - (Windows/Linux/OSX) with wireless, 1GB+ RAM, and 5GB+ free disk space

Objectives

At the end of the workshop students will be able to:

• Explain concepts of Virtualisation as it relates to modern computer systems
• Explain and demonstrate Desktop Virtualisation using VirtualBox
• Explain and demonstrate System Virtualisation using KVM and libvirt
• Explain and demonstrate Migration and shared storage
• Explain and configure a Linux system to use Ganeti
• Demonstrate how to create an instance using ISO images
• Demonstrate live migration with Ganeti instances
• Demonstrate how to create an instance using VMDK images
• Explain and configure various Ganeti advanced settings
• Demonstrate how to create automated Ganeti instances using synnefo
• Explain and configure virtualisation networks and VLANs to provide networks to customer VMs
• Explain and demonstrate techniques for dealing with Ganeti failure handling
• Explain some basic concepts relating to Cloud computingFULL DETAILS: https://nsrc.org/workshops/2021/mnnog3/agenda.html

Hervey Allen

Md. Abdul Awal

Hans Kuhn

Phil Regnauld

Philip Smith