WGU - Software Defined Networking - D415, NR 603
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Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Ans: Moved network functions
from stand-alone appliances to software running on any server, reducing
the time-to-market for products.
Software-Defined Networks (SDN) Ans: This architecture decouples the
network control and forwarding functions enabling the network control
to become directly programmable and the underlying infrastructure to be
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abstracted for applications and network services.
NFV Components Ans: Virtual Network Functions (VNFs)
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Network Functions Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVI)
NFV Management and Orchestration (NFV-MANO)
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NFV Management and Orchestration (NFV-MANO) Ans: Consists of all
functional blocks, data repositories, reference points, and interfaces that
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are used for managing and orchestrating VNFs and the NFVI.
Network Functions Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVI) Ans: Is the
entirety of the hardware and software components that build the
environment where VNFs are deployed.
Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) Ans: Are the software implementations
of network functions.
Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV) Ans: Created by the Linux Foundation in
2014 and is a collaborative open-source platform that seeks to develop
NFV and shape its evolution.
OpenStack Ans: An open-source cloud computing platform that has high
market penetration that includes a collection of interoperable modules
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that are used to orchestrate large pools of compute, storage, and
networking resources.
Nova Ans: OpenStack compute module, is used to create and delete
compute instances as required.
Glance Ans: OpenStack module that synchronizes and maintains VM
images across the com pute cluster.
Keystone Ans: Module that provides authentication for accessing all
OpenStack services.
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Cinder Ans: OpenStack module that provides block storage used as
storage volumes for VMs.
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Swift Ans: OpenStack module that provides object storage that is used to
store large amounts of static data in a cluster.
Neutron Ans: or networking, OpenStack module that allows the different
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compute instances and storage nodes to communicate with each other.
Horizon Ans: OpenStack module provides a GUI dashboard, and is by far
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the most widely deployed management module.
Heat Ans: OpenStack module that helps expedite orchestration of
applications across multiple compute instances by using templates.
Celiometer Ans: OpenStack module that monitors the NFVI and helps
identify bottlenecks and resource optimization opportunities.
Ironic Ans: OpenStack module that is a provisioning tool for baremetal
installation of compute capabilities instead of VMs in OpenStack.
Congress Ans: OpenStack module that is a policy management framework
for the OpenStack environment.
Designate Ans: OpenStack module that is used to point applications in
the OpenStack environment to a trusted DNS source.
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Barbican Ans: OpenStack module that works with Keystone
authentication to manage internal application security by behaving as a
key manager.
Murano Ans: OpenStack module that provides a white list repository of
applications.
Trove Ans: OpenStack module that provides a distributed database
service and enables users to deploy relational and non-relational
database engines.
Sahara Ans: OpenStack module formerly called Savanna, provides big
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data services by providing Elastic MapReduce and ability to provision
Hadoop.
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Manila Ans: Openstack module that provides Network Area Storage (NAS)
solutions for an OpenStack deployment.
Zaqar Ans: OpenStack module that provides a multi-tenant cloud
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messaging service.
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Magnum Ans: OpenStack module that is an umbrella project that
provides containerization assistance. This module is still in development.
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Ans: A network management
protocol used to dynamically assign an Internet Protocol (IP) address to
any device, or node, on a network so they can communicate using IP.
UDP port number 67 Ans: Destination port of a DHCP server
UDP port number 68 Ans: Destination port of a DHCP client
ioctl interface Ans: Linux Bridge Configuration offers an interface that
can be used to create and destroy bridges in the operating system, and it
can also add network interfaces and remove existing network interfaces
to / from the bridge.