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A broad overview of modern data center architectures and technologies covering server and LAN virtualization, LAN reference architectures and emerging fabric architectures, storage area networks and basics of data center interconnects.

Last modified on 2023-12-07 (release notes)

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Data Center Infrastructure for Networking Engineers

22:23 Data Center Concepts

Read-Me-First and Errata 156K 2013-05-02
Introduction 9:22 2011-04-06
Application Concepts 5:51 2011-04-06
Firewalls 7:10 2011-04-06

2:06:12 Load Balancing and Scale-Out Architectures

Load Balancing and Scale-Out Application Architectures 3.9M 2013-04-19
Introduction to Scalability and Load Balancing 9:28 2014-05-17
Single Server Solutions 12:30 2014-05-17
Scale-Out Application Architectures 21:07 2014-05-17
Scaling Database Servers 11:16 2014-05-17
DNS and Anycast Load Balancing 7:53 2014-05-17
Load Balancers 101 9:50 2014-05-17
Common Load Balancer Features 13:57 2014-05-17
Advanced Load Balancer Features 11:24 2014-05-17
Server-Based Load Balancing 11:19 2014-05-17
Global Load Balancing 12:35 2014-05-17
Scalability and Load Balancing - Conclusions 4:53 2014-05-17

More Information

Introduction to modern network load balancing and proxying

4:26:49 Data Center Networking

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1:06:27 Transparent Bridging or IP Routing?

Recap: Transparent Bridging Fundamentals 20:47 2020-11-20
Recap: IP Routing Fundamentals 9:50 2020-11-20
Comparing Transparent Bridging and IP Routing 17:55 2020-11-20
Typical Large-Scale Bridging Use Cases 17:55 2020-11-20

50:37 Physical Network Virtualization

Network Virtualization with VLANs 18:27 2022-11-25
Advanced VLAN Topics 18:43 2022-11-25
VRFs and VDCs 13:27 2022-11-25

1:55:39 Data Center Network Reference Architecture

Evolution of Data Center Switching 18:19 2022-11-25
Data Center Fabric Design Challenges 15:18 2022-11-25
Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation 16:21 2022-11-25
Typical MLAG Implementations 22:12 2022-12-12
Fabric Extenders 11:36 2022-12-12
Large-Scale Bridging Solutions 12:05 2022-12-12
Routing on Layer-2 19:48 2022-12-12

34:06 From the ipSpace.net Design Clinic

Multi-Homed Servers 34:06 2022-01-18

51:19 Storage Protocols

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Storage Protocols 101 11:12 2011-04-06
Fibre Channel over Ethernet 14:10 2011-04-06
iSCSI 6:26 2011-04-06
Long-Distance Storage 3:06 2011-04-06
Storage Myths 4:27 2011-04-06
Storage Q&A 11:58 2011-04-06

2:20:17 Server Virtualization

Basics of Compute Virtualization 14:51 2017-04-25
Virtual Machines and Hypervisors 23:09 2017-04-25
VM Access to External Networks 16:52 2017-04-25
Hypervisor LAN Connectivity 8:21 2017-04-25
VM Access to Storage 13:29 2017-04-25
High Availability and Live VM Mobility 18:15 2017-04-25
Operating System Level Virtualization 10:17 2017-04-25
Linux Network Namespaces 12:35 2017-04-25
Linux Containers and Docker 9:46 2017-04-25
Blade Servers 12:42 2017-04-25

Data Center Interconnects

This section has been replaced by the Data Center Interconnects webinar

10:24 Conclusions and Questions

Conclusions and Questions 10:24 2011-04-06

Supplementary Materials

Original slide deck 5.8M 2011-12-12
Data Center Network Reference Architecture 3.0M 2022-10-11
Server Virtualization Overview 3.6M 2017-04-23
Frequenty-asked questions 111K 2013-05-02

10:42 Public Videos

Microsoft Network Load Balancing 5:24 2012-02-13
Direct Server Return 5:18 2014-05-14
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