Toastmaster’s speech 1 – Virtual Networks

Speech contents are below:

 

Speech – Virtual Networks

1. What is Virtualization?

a. Benefits: Run multiple OS on single server (hardware consolidation – 80% greater utilization), power savings, rack space saving, efficiency in maintenance and deploying patches, HA

b. Savings - > $1500 per server virtualized.

c. Types – Server, Storage (VMFS datastore), Network

2. Software Defined Datacenters – caters to capacity elasticity, on-demand application provisioning, policy based provisioning and automated operations management.

3. Types of Hypervisors

a. Type 1- Bare metal (ESXi, Hyper-v, XenServer)

b. Type 2 – Hypervisor within OS (VMware Workstation, MS VirtualServer)

c. ESXi – 32 MB footprint.

4. Virtual Network Components:

a. vSS

b. vDS

c. Port/Port group – VM Kernel, VM Port group

d. VLAN

e. Trunk port

f. Access port

g. Network Interface card team

h. Virtual network adapters – vmxnet adapters 1Gbps – inside guest OS.

5. Virtual Switch functions –

a. VM to VM on same host

b. Vmknic for vMotion, iSCSI/NFS storage access etc

c. VM to VM on different hosts

d. VM to physical host

6. Similarities to a physical switch –

a. L2 switch

b. MAC table

c. Supports VLAN

d. Supports trunking

e. Fixed number of ports (as specified) - 8, 24 … 4088

7. Dissimilarities to a physical switch –

a. vSwitch cannot be connected to vSwitch – so no looping – so no need for STP

b. vSwitch knows the MACs of VMs connected – so no need to learn MACs.

c. vSwitch cannot route traffic from one NIC to another NIC.

d. No telnet service.

8. Port groups –

a. VM Kernel port – traffic from vmknics on host

b. VM Port groups – traffic of VMs

9. Uplinks –

a. Required to connect to physical switch.

b. vSwitch can have multiple uplinks.

c. No uplink can be shared by 2 vSwitches.

d. Max 32 uplinks on host

e. vSwitch without uplink – internal-only vSwitch

10. NIC Team – 2 or more uplinks on a vSwitch. Provides load balancing and failover (Active/passive)

11. VM Port group – multiple vNICs, does not have IP addresses.

12. VLAN – can reduce number of vSwitches and uplinks required. ID 0 – 4094.

13. Switch port connected to uplink using multiple VLANs must be trunk port.

14. Distributed vSwitches – spans hosts, config change on dvPort group will be pushed to all member hosts by vCenter.

15. Conclusion – Virtual networking aids server virtualization initiatives and thus contributes to the benefits incurred from adopting virtualization.

 

I was only able to cover up to 4.a and then 15 and that itself put me in red @ 6 min+.