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Module 1: Introduction to High-Performance Storage Architectures - Evolution of storage from HDDs to NVMe
- Limitations of legacy protocols like SATA and SAS
- Why latency and IOPS matter in modern applications
- Understanding the storage stack in data centers
- Role of PCIe in high-speed communication
- Differences between direct-attached and networked storage
- Overview of enterprise storage challenges in cloud environments
- Key metrics for evaluating storage performance
- Introduction to queueing theory and its relevance
- How CPU overhead impacts storage efficiency
Module 2: Fundamentals of NVMe Protocol Architecture - What is NVMe and how it differs from AHCI
- NVMe specification overview and governing bodies
- NVMe namespace concepts and management
- Understanding submission and completion queues
- How NVMe uses PCIe lanes for communication
- I/O command structure and command sets
- NVMe Admin and I/O commands explained
- Host controller interface for NVMe devices
- Power management features in NVMe
- Error handling and log page mechanisms
- Temperature monitoring and thermal throttling
- Namespace management and formatting operations
- Firmware updates using NVMe commands
- Controller attributes and capabilities register
- Doorbell buffer mechanics and signaling
Module 3: NVMe Hardware and Device Integration - Physical NVMe form factors: M.2, U.2, EDSFF
- PCIe lane configurations and bandwidth calculation
- Host-side NVMe controller requirements
- Firmware layers in NVMe SSDs
- Flash translation layer and garbage collection
- Wear leveling and endurance metrics (TBW, DWPD)
- End-to-end data protection with T10 DIF
- NVMe device discovery process at boot
- Multi-path I/O with NVMe devices
- Hot-plug support and device removal handling
- Interrupt mechanisms: MSI vs MSI-X
- CPU core affinity and interrupt distribution
- Queue depth planning and resource allocation
- NUMA considerations for NVMe performance
- TRIM and Deallocate commands in NVMe
Module 4: Operating System and Driver Support - NVMe stack in Linux: kernel modules and drivers
- Windows NVMe driver model and optimization
- macOS NVMe compatibility and limitations
- BSD and other Unix variants support status
- Device enumeration in /dev and sysfs (Linux)
- Using nvme-cli for device management
- Common commands: list, id-ctrl, id-ns, get-features
- Setting queue count and interrupt moderation
- Monitoring health with smart-log
- Namespace attachment and detachment
- IOCTL interface for NVMe in user space
- Performance tuning via host parameters
- Impact of I/O schedulers on NVMe
- Setting affinity for I/O processing threads
- Disabling CPU frequency scaling for consistency
Module 5: NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-OF) Overview - Why move NVMe over the network
- Limitations of iSCSI and Fibre Channel
- Definition of NVMe-OF and its advantages
- Transport neutrality in NVMe-OF design
- RoCE, TCP, and FC-NVMe explained
- Discovery mechanisms in NVMe-OF
- Identifying controllers and endpoints
- Role of RDMA in low-latency fabrics
- Data integrity across networked storage
- Latency comparison: local vs remote access
- Scalability benefits of shared NVMe storage
- Use cases: cloud, AI/ML, virtualization
- Architecture of NVMe-OF endpoints
- Transport headers and encapsulation methods
- Session establishment and keep-alive
Module 6: Transport Protocols for NVMe-OF - NVMe/TCP: implementation and stack layers
- Kernel bypass techniques for TCP performance
- SO_REUSEPORT and multi-queue support
- Offload engines and hardware acceleration
- NVMe/RoCE: RDMA over Converged Ethernet
- PFC and ECN for lossless Ethernet
- RNIC and CQ management in RoCE
- Memory registration and zero-copy I/O
- NVMe/FC: Fibre Channel adaptation layer
- Zoning and LUN mapping in FC-NVMe
- FC-NVMe vs traditional FCP
- Transport latency benchmarks and comparisons
- Selecting the right transport for your environment
- Multipath support across transports
- Session failover and reconnect behavior
Module 7: NVMe-OF Discovery and Name Services - Discovery controllers and discovery logs
- Retrieving subsystem information via discovery
- Format of discovery log page entries
- Using discovery to find subsystems dynamically
- Static vs dynamic discovery methods
- Discovery over TCP and RDMA transports
- Port specification and addressing in discovery
- Subnqn and hostnqn naming conventions
- Authentication via NQN identifiers
- Configuring discovery clients
- Discovery retry and timeout settings
- Security considerations in discovery
- Discovery in multi-tenant environments
- Automating discovery with scripts
- Monitoring discovery session health
Module 8: Subsystem and Namespace Management - NVMe subsystem architecture and components
- NQN assignment and namespace export rules
- Creating and deleting namespaces on target
- Resizing namespaces dynamically
- Attaching and detaching namespaces
- Access control and access rights management
- Thin provisioning and over-subscription
- Persistent reservation and exclusive access
- Namespace sharing across multiple hosts
- Handling concurrent access safely
- Namespace tagging and metadata
- Performance isolation between namespaces
- Reservations for clustered applications
- Administrative command forwarding
- Monitoring namespace usage in real time
Module 9: Security and Authentication in NVMe-OF - Authentication models: pre-shared keys, certificates
- Role of TLS in NVMe/TCP security
- Data encryption in flight and at rest
- CHAP authentication for NVMe-OF
- One-way and mutual CHAP setup
- Secure discovery and connect processes
- Certificate-based identity validation
- Access control lists by NQN
- RBAC integration with identity providers
- Auditing and logging access attempts
- Session encryption strength and cipher suites
- Secure boot and firmware validation
- Trusted platform module integration
- Role of SPDK in secure deployment
- Best practices for hardening NVMe-OF
Module 10: Performance Tuning and Optimization - Queue depth and I/O size optimization
- Measuring throughput and latency accurately
- Using FIO for benchmarking NVMe devices
- Tuning FIO jobs for random vs sequential workloads
- Impact of block size on IOPS and bandwidth
- NUMA alignment for multi-socket systems
- CPU interrupt coalescing settings
- GPU-Direct Storage and its benefits
- Reducing context switches in high-load scenarios
- Tuning TCP window size for NVMe/TCP
- RoCE packet pacing and congestion control
- Enabling large receive offload (LRO)
- SR-IOV and passthrough for VMs
- Device queues and host queue pairing
- Monitoring with perf and bpftrace
Module 11: Monitoring and Observability - Smart log collection and interpretation
- Temperature, wear leveling, and availability
- Endurance estimation and life remaining
- Error logs and autonomous log pages
- Telemetry log pages and host-initiated capture
- Vendor-specific log page support
- Integrating NVMe logs into SIEM tools
- Prometheus exporters for NVMe metrics
- Grafana dashboards for real-time monitoring
- Alerting on threshold breaches
- End-to-end fabric latency tracing
- Correlating device health with application QoS
- Collecting and storing historical performance data
- Root cause analysis for performance drops
- Monitoring session stability in NVMe-OF
Module 12: High Availability and Failover - Active-active vs active-passive configurations
- Handling controller failure in NVMe storage
- Automatic failover and session recovery
- Persistent reservations for clustered access
- Multi-host access coordination
- Heartbeat and liveliness detection
- Distributed lock management
- Quorum mechanisms in shared storage
- Failover testing procedures
- Reconnection timeout tuning
- State synchronization between controllers
- Non-disruptive firmware updates
- Rolling upgrades in production clusters
- Redundant path management
- Validating failover success with scripts
Module 13: Scaling NVMe-OF in Data Centers - Designing scalable NVMe-OF topologies
- Spine-leaf architecture for storage fabrics
- Bandwidth oversubscription calculations
- Determining optimal target-to-host ratios
- Network interface card selection guide
- Load balancing across multiple paths
- Topology-aware scheduling in Kubernetes
- Integration with CNI plugins for containers
- Distributed metadata services
- Namespace placement strategies
- QoS policies for multi-tenant systems
- Rate limiting and bandwidth allocation
- Capacity planning for petabyte-scale systems
- Managing firmware and software lifecycle
- Automated provisioning with Ansible
Module 14: Integration with Virtualization and Cloud - VMware vSphere and NVMe-OF support
- Configuring VMs with NVMe virtual disks
- NVMe passthrough in ESXi
- Hyper-V and Windows Server integration
- KVM and QEMU NVMe backends
- SPDK as a virtual NVMe target
- OpenStack Cinder with NVMe-OF drivers
- Kubernetes CSI drivers for persistent storage
- Dynamic provisioning of NVMe volumes
- Storage classes and reclaim policies
- Cloud provider integration (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Using NVMe in serverless architectures
- Edge computing and low-latency requirements
- Backup and snapshot strategies
- Disaster recovery planning for NVMe systems
Module 15: Diagnostics and Troubleshooting - Systematic approach to NVMe issues
- Checking link training and PCIe status
- Verifying queue allocation and memory maps
- Interpreting dmesg and kernel logs
- Common connection errors in NVMe-OF
- Troubleshooting discovery failures
- Resolving transport-level timeouts
- Diagnosing RoCE packet loss
- Using tcpdump for NVMe/TCP analysis
- Parsing NVMe/TCP packet structures
- Verifying NQN consistency across host and target
- Testing path MTU and fragmentation
- Validating firewall rules for NVMe-OF
- Checking RDMA device status
- Using ibstat and rdma tooling
Module 16: Advanced Use Cases and Real-World Implementations - Real-time analytics with NVMe-OF storage
- HPC workloads and burst buffer design
- AI/ML training data pipelines
- In-memory database tiering with NVMe
- Financial trading systems and microsecond latency
- Media streaming and video editing workloads
- Gaming infrastructure with low-persistence storage
- Automotive simulation and testing environments
- Telecom edge caching with distributed NVMe
- Content delivery networks using NVMe-OF
- Stateful serverless functions with ephemeral NVMe
- CI/CD pipelines with fast artifact retrieval
- Database log storage on ultra-low latency drives
- Time-series data ingestion patterns
- Building a shared nothing architecture
Module 17: Building Your First NVMe-OF Environment - Selecting hardware for a proof-of-concept
- Setting up a Linux-based NVMe target
- Installing and configuring SPDK
- Creating a virtual NVMe controller
- Exporting a namespace over TCP
- Configuring RDMA capable hardware
- Setting up a RoCEv2 network
- Connecting a remote host using nvme connect
- Mounting and testing read/write performance
- Validating end-to-end connectivity
- Enabling multipath for redundancy
- Automating connection at boot
- Documenting configuration steps
- Creating a repeatable deployment script
- Benchmarking before and after optimization
Module 18: Certification and Career Advancement - Overview of the final assessment process
- Practice exercises to prepare for certification
- Hands-on project: design a secure NVMe-OF system
- Documenting architectural decisions
- Implementing access control and encryption
- Configuring monitoring and alerting
- Testing failover and recovery procedures
- Creating a performance optimization report
- Submitting your capstone project
- Review criteria and grading rubric
- Receiving feedback from subject matter experts
- Earning your Certificate of Completion
- How to showcase your credential on LinkedIn
- Updating your resume with verified skills
- Lifetime access to update your certification portfolio
Module 1: Introduction to High-Performance Storage Architectures - Evolution of storage from HDDs to NVMe
- Limitations of legacy protocols like SATA and SAS
- Why latency and IOPS matter in modern applications
- Understanding the storage stack in data centers
- Role of PCIe in high-speed communication
- Differences between direct-attached and networked storage
- Overview of enterprise storage challenges in cloud environments
- Key metrics for evaluating storage performance
- Introduction to queueing theory and its relevance
- How CPU overhead impacts storage efficiency
Module 2: Fundamentals of NVMe Protocol Architecture - What is NVMe and how it differs from AHCI
- NVMe specification overview and governing bodies
- NVMe namespace concepts and management
- Understanding submission and completion queues
- How NVMe uses PCIe lanes for communication
- I/O command structure and command sets
- NVMe Admin and I/O commands explained
- Host controller interface for NVMe devices
- Power management features in NVMe
- Error handling and log page mechanisms
- Temperature monitoring and thermal throttling
- Namespace management and formatting operations
- Firmware updates using NVMe commands
- Controller attributes and capabilities register
- Doorbell buffer mechanics and signaling
Module 3: NVMe Hardware and Device Integration - Physical NVMe form factors: M.2, U.2, EDSFF
- PCIe lane configurations and bandwidth calculation
- Host-side NVMe controller requirements
- Firmware layers in NVMe SSDs
- Flash translation layer and garbage collection
- Wear leveling and endurance metrics (TBW, DWPD)
- End-to-end data protection with T10 DIF
- NVMe device discovery process at boot
- Multi-path I/O with NVMe devices
- Hot-plug support and device removal handling
- Interrupt mechanisms: MSI vs MSI-X
- CPU core affinity and interrupt distribution
- Queue depth planning and resource allocation
- NUMA considerations for NVMe performance
- TRIM and Deallocate commands in NVMe
Module 4: Operating System and Driver Support - NVMe stack in Linux: kernel modules and drivers
- Windows NVMe driver model and optimization
- macOS NVMe compatibility and limitations
- BSD and other Unix variants support status
- Device enumeration in /dev and sysfs (Linux)
- Using nvme-cli for device management
- Common commands: list, id-ctrl, id-ns, get-features
- Setting queue count and interrupt moderation
- Monitoring health with smart-log
- Namespace attachment and detachment
- IOCTL interface for NVMe in user space
- Performance tuning via host parameters
- Impact of I/O schedulers on NVMe
- Setting affinity for I/O processing threads
- Disabling CPU frequency scaling for consistency
Module 5: NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-OF) Overview - Why move NVMe over the network
- Limitations of iSCSI and Fibre Channel
- Definition of NVMe-OF and its advantages
- Transport neutrality in NVMe-OF design
- RoCE, TCP, and FC-NVMe explained
- Discovery mechanisms in NVMe-OF
- Identifying controllers and endpoints
- Role of RDMA in low-latency fabrics
- Data integrity across networked storage
- Latency comparison: local vs remote access
- Scalability benefits of shared NVMe storage
- Use cases: cloud, AI/ML, virtualization
- Architecture of NVMe-OF endpoints
- Transport headers and encapsulation methods
- Session establishment and keep-alive
Module 6: Transport Protocols for NVMe-OF - NVMe/TCP: implementation and stack layers
- Kernel bypass techniques for TCP performance
- SO_REUSEPORT and multi-queue support
- Offload engines and hardware acceleration
- NVMe/RoCE: RDMA over Converged Ethernet
- PFC and ECN for lossless Ethernet
- RNIC and CQ management in RoCE
- Memory registration and zero-copy I/O
- NVMe/FC: Fibre Channel adaptation layer
- Zoning and LUN mapping in FC-NVMe
- FC-NVMe vs traditional FCP
- Transport latency benchmarks and comparisons
- Selecting the right transport for your environment
- Multipath support across transports
- Session failover and reconnect behavior
Module 7: NVMe-OF Discovery and Name Services - Discovery controllers and discovery logs
- Retrieving subsystem information via discovery
- Format of discovery log page entries
- Using discovery to find subsystems dynamically
- Static vs dynamic discovery methods
- Discovery over TCP and RDMA transports
- Port specification and addressing in discovery
- Subnqn and hostnqn naming conventions
- Authentication via NQN identifiers
- Configuring discovery clients
- Discovery retry and timeout settings
- Security considerations in discovery
- Discovery in multi-tenant environments
- Automating discovery with scripts
- Monitoring discovery session health
Module 8: Subsystem and Namespace Management - NVMe subsystem architecture and components
- NQN assignment and namespace export rules
- Creating and deleting namespaces on target
- Resizing namespaces dynamically
- Attaching and detaching namespaces
- Access control and access rights management
- Thin provisioning and over-subscription
- Persistent reservation and exclusive access
- Namespace sharing across multiple hosts
- Handling concurrent access safely
- Namespace tagging and metadata
- Performance isolation between namespaces
- Reservations for clustered applications
- Administrative command forwarding
- Monitoring namespace usage in real time
Module 9: Security and Authentication in NVMe-OF - Authentication models: pre-shared keys, certificates
- Role of TLS in NVMe/TCP security
- Data encryption in flight and at rest
- CHAP authentication for NVMe-OF
- One-way and mutual CHAP setup
- Secure discovery and connect processes
- Certificate-based identity validation
- Access control lists by NQN
- RBAC integration with identity providers
- Auditing and logging access attempts
- Session encryption strength and cipher suites
- Secure boot and firmware validation
- Trusted platform module integration
- Role of SPDK in secure deployment
- Best practices for hardening NVMe-OF
Module 10: Performance Tuning and Optimization - Queue depth and I/O size optimization
- Measuring throughput and latency accurately
- Using FIO for benchmarking NVMe devices
- Tuning FIO jobs for random vs sequential workloads
- Impact of block size on IOPS and bandwidth
- NUMA alignment for multi-socket systems
- CPU interrupt coalescing settings
- GPU-Direct Storage and its benefits
- Reducing context switches in high-load scenarios
- Tuning TCP window size for NVMe/TCP
- RoCE packet pacing and congestion control
- Enabling large receive offload (LRO)
- SR-IOV and passthrough for VMs
- Device queues and host queue pairing
- Monitoring with perf and bpftrace
Module 11: Monitoring and Observability - Smart log collection and interpretation
- Temperature, wear leveling, and availability
- Endurance estimation and life remaining
- Error logs and autonomous log pages
- Telemetry log pages and host-initiated capture
- Vendor-specific log page support
- Integrating NVMe logs into SIEM tools
- Prometheus exporters for NVMe metrics
- Grafana dashboards for real-time monitoring
- Alerting on threshold breaches
- End-to-end fabric latency tracing
- Correlating device health with application QoS
- Collecting and storing historical performance data
- Root cause analysis for performance drops
- Monitoring session stability in NVMe-OF
Module 12: High Availability and Failover - Active-active vs active-passive configurations
- Handling controller failure in NVMe storage
- Automatic failover and session recovery
- Persistent reservations for clustered access
- Multi-host access coordination
- Heartbeat and liveliness detection
- Distributed lock management
- Quorum mechanisms in shared storage
- Failover testing procedures
- Reconnection timeout tuning
- State synchronization between controllers
- Non-disruptive firmware updates
- Rolling upgrades in production clusters
- Redundant path management
- Validating failover success with scripts
Module 13: Scaling NVMe-OF in Data Centers - Designing scalable NVMe-OF topologies
- Spine-leaf architecture for storage fabrics
- Bandwidth oversubscription calculations
- Determining optimal target-to-host ratios
- Network interface card selection guide
- Load balancing across multiple paths
- Topology-aware scheduling in Kubernetes
- Integration with CNI plugins for containers
- Distributed metadata services
- Namespace placement strategies
- QoS policies for multi-tenant systems
- Rate limiting and bandwidth allocation
- Capacity planning for petabyte-scale systems
- Managing firmware and software lifecycle
- Automated provisioning with Ansible
Module 14: Integration with Virtualization and Cloud - VMware vSphere and NVMe-OF support
- Configuring VMs with NVMe virtual disks
- NVMe passthrough in ESXi
- Hyper-V and Windows Server integration
- KVM and QEMU NVMe backends
- SPDK as a virtual NVMe target
- OpenStack Cinder with NVMe-OF drivers
- Kubernetes CSI drivers for persistent storage
- Dynamic provisioning of NVMe volumes
- Storage classes and reclaim policies
- Cloud provider integration (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Using NVMe in serverless architectures
- Edge computing and low-latency requirements
- Backup and snapshot strategies
- Disaster recovery planning for NVMe systems
Module 15: Diagnostics and Troubleshooting - Systematic approach to NVMe issues
- Checking link training and PCIe status
- Verifying queue allocation and memory maps
- Interpreting dmesg and kernel logs
- Common connection errors in NVMe-OF
- Troubleshooting discovery failures
- Resolving transport-level timeouts
- Diagnosing RoCE packet loss
- Using tcpdump for NVMe/TCP analysis
- Parsing NVMe/TCP packet structures
- Verifying NQN consistency across host and target
- Testing path MTU and fragmentation
- Validating firewall rules for NVMe-OF
- Checking RDMA device status
- Using ibstat and rdma tooling
Module 16: Advanced Use Cases and Real-World Implementations - Real-time analytics with NVMe-OF storage
- HPC workloads and burst buffer design
- AI/ML training data pipelines
- In-memory database tiering with NVMe
- Financial trading systems and microsecond latency
- Media streaming and video editing workloads
- Gaming infrastructure with low-persistence storage
- Automotive simulation and testing environments
- Telecom edge caching with distributed NVMe
- Content delivery networks using NVMe-OF
- Stateful serverless functions with ephemeral NVMe
- CI/CD pipelines with fast artifact retrieval
- Database log storage on ultra-low latency drives
- Time-series data ingestion patterns
- Building a shared nothing architecture
Module 17: Building Your First NVMe-OF Environment - Selecting hardware for a proof-of-concept
- Setting up a Linux-based NVMe target
- Installing and configuring SPDK
- Creating a virtual NVMe controller
- Exporting a namespace over TCP
- Configuring RDMA capable hardware
- Setting up a RoCEv2 network
- Connecting a remote host using nvme connect
- Mounting and testing read/write performance
- Validating end-to-end connectivity
- Enabling multipath for redundancy
- Automating connection at boot
- Documenting configuration steps
- Creating a repeatable deployment script
- Benchmarking before and after optimization
Module 18: Certification and Career Advancement - Overview of the final assessment process
- Practice exercises to prepare for certification
- Hands-on project: design a secure NVMe-OF system
- Documenting architectural decisions
- Implementing access control and encryption
- Configuring monitoring and alerting
- Testing failover and recovery procedures
- Creating a performance optimization report
- Submitting your capstone project
- Review criteria and grading rubric
- Receiving feedback from subject matter experts
- Earning your Certificate of Completion
- How to showcase your credential on LinkedIn
- Updating your resume with verified skills
- Lifetime access to update your certification portfolio
- What is NVMe and how it differs from AHCI
- NVMe specification overview and governing bodies
- NVMe namespace concepts and management
- Understanding submission and completion queues
- How NVMe uses PCIe lanes for communication
- I/O command structure and command sets
- NVMe Admin and I/O commands explained
- Host controller interface for NVMe devices
- Power management features in NVMe
- Error handling and log page mechanisms
- Temperature monitoring and thermal throttling
- Namespace management and formatting operations
- Firmware updates using NVMe commands
- Controller attributes and capabilities register
- Doorbell buffer mechanics and signaling
Module 3: NVMe Hardware and Device Integration - Physical NVMe form factors: M.2, U.2, EDSFF
- PCIe lane configurations and bandwidth calculation
- Host-side NVMe controller requirements
- Firmware layers in NVMe SSDs
- Flash translation layer and garbage collection
- Wear leveling and endurance metrics (TBW, DWPD)
- End-to-end data protection with T10 DIF
- NVMe device discovery process at boot
- Multi-path I/O with NVMe devices
- Hot-plug support and device removal handling
- Interrupt mechanisms: MSI vs MSI-X
- CPU core affinity and interrupt distribution
- Queue depth planning and resource allocation
- NUMA considerations for NVMe performance
- TRIM and Deallocate commands in NVMe
Module 4: Operating System and Driver Support - NVMe stack in Linux: kernel modules and drivers
- Windows NVMe driver model and optimization
- macOS NVMe compatibility and limitations
- BSD and other Unix variants support status
- Device enumeration in /dev and sysfs (Linux)
- Using nvme-cli for device management
- Common commands: list, id-ctrl, id-ns, get-features
- Setting queue count and interrupt moderation
- Monitoring health with smart-log
- Namespace attachment and detachment
- IOCTL interface for NVMe in user space
- Performance tuning via host parameters
- Impact of I/O schedulers on NVMe
- Setting affinity for I/O processing threads
- Disabling CPU frequency scaling for consistency
Module 5: NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-OF) Overview - Why move NVMe over the network
- Limitations of iSCSI and Fibre Channel
- Definition of NVMe-OF and its advantages
- Transport neutrality in NVMe-OF design
- RoCE, TCP, and FC-NVMe explained
- Discovery mechanisms in NVMe-OF
- Identifying controllers and endpoints
- Role of RDMA in low-latency fabrics
- Data integrity across networked storage
- Latency comparison: local vs remote access
- Scalability benefits of shared NVMe storage
- Use cases: cloud, AI/ML, virtualization
- Architecture of NVMe-OF endpoints
- Transport headers and encapsulation methods
- Session establishment and keep-alive
Module 6: Transport Protocols for NVMe-OF - NVMe/TCP: implementation and stack layers
- Kernel bypass techniques for TCP performance
- SO_REUSEPORT and multi-queue support
- Offload engines and hardware acceleration
- NVMe/RoCE: RDMA over Converged Ethernet
- PFC and ECN for lossless Ethernet
- RNIC and CQ management in RoCE
- Memory registration and zero-copy I/O
- NVMe/FC: Fibre Channel adaptation layer
- Zoning and LUN mapping in FC-NVMe
- FC-NVMe vs traditional FCP
- Transport latency benchmarks and comparisons
- Selecting the right transport for your environment
- Multipath support across transports
- Session failover and reconnect behavior
Module 7: NVMe-OF Discovery and Name Services - Discovery controllers and discovery logs
- Retrieving subsystem information via discovery
- Format of discovery log page entries
- Using discovery to find subsystems dynamically
- Static vs dynamic discovery methods
- Discovery over TCP and RDMA transports
- Port specification and addressing in discovery
- Subnqn and hostnqn naming conventions
- Authentication via NQN identifiers
- Configuring discovery clients
- Discovery retry and timeout settings
- Security considerations in discovery
- Discovery in multi-tenant environments
- Automating discovery with scripts
- Monitoring discovery session health
Module 8: Subsystem and Namespace Management - NVMe subsystem architecture and components
- NQN assignment and namespace export rules
- Creating and deleting namespaces on target
- Resizing namespaces dynamically
- Attaching and detaching namespaces
- Access control and access rights management
- Thin provisioning and over-subscription
- Persistent reservation and exclusive access
- Namespace sharing across multiple hosts
- Handling concurrent access safely
- Namespace tagging and metadata
- Performance isolation between namespaces
- Reservations for clustered applications
- Administrative command forwarding
- Monitoring namespace usage in real time
Module 9: Security and Authentication in NVMe-OF - Authentication models: pre-shared keys, certificates
- Role of TLS in NVMe/TCP security
- Data encryption in flight and at rest
- CHAP authentication for NVMe-OF
- One-way and mutual CHAP setup
- Secure discovery and connect processes
- Certificate-based identity validation
- Access control lists by NQN
- RBAC integration with identity providers
- Auditing and logging access attempts
- Session encryption strength and cipher suites
- Secure boot and firmware validation
- Trusted platform module integration
- Role of SPDK in secure deployment
- Best practices for hardening NVMe-OF
Module 10: Performance Tuning and Optimization - Queue depth and I/O size optimization
- Measuring throughput and latency accurately
- Using FIO for benchmarking NVMe devices
- Tuning FIO jobs for random vs sequential workloads
- Impact of block size on IOPS and bandwidth
- NUMA alignment for multi-socket systems
- CPU interrupt coalescing settings
- GPU-Direct Storage and its benefits
- Reducing context switches in high-load scenarios
- Tuning TCP window size for NVMe/TCP
- RoCE packet pacing and congestion control
- Enabling large receive offload (LRO)
- SR-IOV and passthrough for VMs
- Device queues and host queue pairing
- Monitoring with perf and bpftrace
Module 11: Monitoring and Observability - Smart log collection and interpretation
- Temperature, wear leveling, and availability
- Endurance estimation and life remaining
- Error logs and autonomous log pages
- Telemetry log pages and host-initiated capture
- Vendor-specific log page support
- Integrating NVMe logs into SIEM tools
- Prometheus exporters for NVMe metrics
- Grafana dashboards for real-time monitoring
- Alerting on threshold breaches
- End-to-end fabric latency tracing
- Correlating device health with application QoS
- Collecting and storing historical performance data
- Root cause analysis for performance drops
- Monitoring session stability in NVMe-OF
Module 12: High Availability and Failover - Active-active vs active-passive configurations
- Handling controller failure in NVMe storage
- Automatic failover and session recovery
- Persistent reservations for clustered access
- Multi-host access coordination
- Heartbeat and liveliness detection
- Distributed lock management
- Quorum mechanisms in shared storage
- Failover testing procedures
- Reconnection timeout tuning
- State synchronization between controllers
- Non-disruptive firmware updates
- Rolling upgrades in production clusters
- Redundant path management
- Validating failover success with scripts
Module 13: Scaling NVMe-OF in Data Centers - Designing scalable NVMe-OF topologies
- Spine-leaf architecture for storage fabrics
- Bandwidth oversubscription calculations
- Determining optimal target-to-host ratios
- Network interface card selection guide
- Load balancing across multiple paths
- Topology-aware scheduling in Kubernetes
- Integration with CNI plugins for containers
- Distributed metadata services
- Namespace placement strategies
- QoS policies for multi-tenant systems
- Rate limiting and bandwidth allocation
- Capacity planning for petabyte-scale systems
- Managing firmware and software lifecycle
- Automated provisioning with Ansible
Module 14: Integration with Virtualization and Cloud - VMware vSphere and NVMe-OF support
- Configuring VMs with NVMe virtual disks
- NVMe passthrough in ESXi
- Hyper-V and Windows Server integration
- KVM and QEMU NVMe backends
- SPDK as a virtual NVMe target
- OpenStack Cinder with NVMe-OF drivers
- Kubernetes CSI drivers for persistent storage
- Dynamic provisioning of NVMe volumes
- Storage classes and reclaim policies
- Cloud provider integration (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Using NVMe in serverless architectures
- Edge computing and low-latency requirements
- Backup and snapshot strategies
- Disaster recovery planning for NVMe systems
Module 15: Diagnostics and Troubleshooting - Systematic approach to NVMe issues
- Checking link training and PCIe status
- Verifying queue allocation and memory maps
- Interpreting dmesg and kernel logs
- Common connection errors in NVMe-OF
- Troubleshooting discovery failures
- Resolving transport-level timeouts
- Diagnosing RoCE packet loss
- Using tcpdump for NVMe/TCP analysis
- Parsing NVMe/TCP packet structures
- Verifying NQN consistency across host and target
- Testing path MTU and fragmentation
- Validating firewall rules for NVMe-OF
- Checking RDMA device status
- Using ibstat and rdma tooling
Module 16: Advanced Use Cases and Real-World Implementations - Real-time analytics with NVMe-OF storage
- HPC workloads and burst buffer design
- AI/ML training data pipelines
- In-memory database tiering with NVMe
- Financial trading systems and microsecond latency
- Media streaming and video editing workloads
- Gaming infrastructure with low-persistence storage
- Automotive simulation and testing environments
- Telecom edge caching with distributed NVMe
- Content delivery networks using NVMe-OF
- Stateful serverless functions with ephemeral NVMe
- CI/CD pipelines with fast artifact retrieval
- Database log storage on ultra-low latency drives
- Time-series data ingestion patterns
- Building a shared nothing architecture
Module 17: Building Your First NVMe-OF Environment - Selecting hardware for a proof-of-concept
- Setting up a Linux-based NVMe target
- Installing and configuring SPDK
- Creating a virtual NVMe controller
- Exporting a namespace over TCP
- Configuring RDMA capable hardware
- Setting up a RoCEv2 network
- Connecting a remote host using nvme connect
- Mounting and testing read/write performance
- Validating end-to-end connectivity
- Enabling multipath for redundancy
- Automating connection at boot
- Documenting configuration steps
- Creating a repeatable deployment script
- Benchmarking before and after optimization
Module 18: Certification and Career Advancement - Overview of the final assessment process
- Practice exercises to prepare for certification
- Hands-on project: design a secure NVMe-OF system
- Documenting architectural decisions
- Implementing access control and encryption
- Configuring monitoring and alerting
- Testing failover and recovery procedures
- Creating a performance optimization report
- Submitting your capstone project
- Review criteria and grading rubric
- Receiving feedback from subject matter experts
- Earning your Certificate of Completion
- How to showcase your credential on LinkedIn
- Updating your resume with verified skills
- Lifetime access to update your certification portfolio
- NVMe stack in Linux: kernel modules and drivers
- Windows NVMe driver model and optimization
- macOS NVMe compatibility and limitations
- BSD and other Unix variants support status
- Device enumeration in /dev and sysfs (Linux)
- Using nvme-cli for device management
- Common commands: list, id-ctrl, id-ns, get-features
- Setting queue count and interrupt moderation
- Monitoring health with smart-log
- Namespace attachment and detachment
- IOCTL interface for NVMe in user space
- Performance tuning via host parameters
- Impact of I/O schedulers on NVMe
- Setting affinity for I/O processing threads
- Disabling CPU frequency scaling for consistency
Module 5: NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-OF) Overview - Why move NVMe over the network
- Limitations of iSCSI and Fibre Channel
- Definition of NVMe-OF and its advantages
- Transport neutrality in NVMe-OF design
- RoCE, TCP, and FC-NVMe explained
- Discovery mechanisms in NVMe-OF
- Identifying controllers and endpoints
- Role of RDMA in low-latency fabrics
- Data integrity across networked storage
- Latency comparison: local vs remote access
- Scalability benefits of shared NVMe storage
- Use cases: cloud, AI/ML, virtualization
- Architecture of NVMe-OF endpoints
- Transport headers and encapsulation methods
- Session establishment and keep-alive
Module 6: Transport Protocols for NVMe-OF - NVMe/TCP: implementation and stack layers
- Kernel bypass techniques for TCP performance
- SO_REUSEPORT and multi-queue support
- Offload engines and hardware acceleration
- NVMe/RoCE: RDMA over Converged Ethernet
- PFC and ECN for lossless Ethernet
- RNIC and CQ management in RoCE
- Memory registration and zero-copy I/O
- NVMe/FC: Fibre Channel adaptation layer
- Zoning and LUN mapping in FC-NVMe
- FC-NVMe vs traditional FCP
- Transport latency benchmarks and comparisons
- Selecting the right transport for your environment
- Multipath support across transports
- Session failover and reconnect behavior
Module 7: NVMe-OF Discovery and Name Services - Discovery controllers and discovery logs
- Retrieving subsystem information via discovery
- Format of discovery log page entries
- Using discovery to find subsystems dynamically
- Static vs dynamic discovery methods
- Discovery over TCP and RDMA transports
- Port specification and addressing in discovery
- Subnqn and hostnqn naming conventions
- Authentication via NQN identifiers
- Configuring discovery clients
- Discovery retry and timeout settings
- Security considerations in discovery
- Discovery in multi-tenant environments
- Automating discovery with scripts
- Monitoring discovery session health
Module 8: Subsystem and Namespace Management - NVMe subsystem architecture and components
- NQN assignment and namespace export rules
- Creating and deleting namespaces on target
- Resizing namespaces dynamically
- Attaching and detaching namespaces
- Access control and access rights management
- Thin provisioning and over-subscription
- Persistent reservation and exclusive access
- Namespace sharing across multiple hosts
- Handling concurrent access safely
- Namespace tagging and metadata
- Performance isolation between namespaces
- Reservations for clustered applications
- Administrative command forwarding
- Monitoring namespace usage in real time
Module 9: Security and Authentication in NVMe-OF - Authentication models: pre-shared keys, certificates
- Role of TLS in NVMe/TCP security
- Data encryption in flight and at rest
- CHAP authentication for NVMe-OF
- One-way and mutual CHAP setup
- Secure discovery and connect processes
- Certificate-based identity validation
- Access control lists by NQN
- RBAC integration with identity providers
- Auditing and logging access attempts
- Session encryption strength and cipher suites
- Secure boot and firmware validation
- Trusted platform module integration
- Role of SPDK in secure deployment
- Best practices for hardening NVMe-OF
Module 10: Performance Tuning and Optimization - Queue depth and I/O size optimization
- Measuring throughput and latency accurately
- Using FIO for benchmarking NVMe devices
- Tuning FIO jobs for random vs sequential workloads
- Impact of block size on IOPS and bandwidth
- NUMA alignment for multi-socket systems
- CPU interrupt coalescing settings
- GPU-Direct Storage and its benefits
- Reducing context switches in high-load scenarios
- Tuning TCP window size for NVMe/TCP
- RoCE packet pacing and congestion control
- Enabling large receive offload (LRO)
- SR-IOV and passthrough for VMs
- Device queues and host queue pairing
- Monitoring with perf and bpftrace
Module 11: Monitoring and Observability - Smart log collection and interpretation
- Temperature, wear leveling, and availability
- Endurance estimation and life remaining
- Error logs and autonomous log pages
- Telemetry log pages and host-initiated capture
- Vendor-specific log page support
- Integrating NVMe logs into SIEM tools
- Prometheus exporters for NVMe metrics
- Grafana dashboards for real-time monitoring
- Alerting on threshold breaches
- End-to-end fabric latency tracing
- Correlating device health with application QoS
- Collecting and storing historical performance data
- Root cause analysis for performance drops
- Monitoring session stability in NVMe-OF
Module 12: High Availability and Failover - Active-active vs active-passive configurations
- Handling controller failure in NVMe storage
- Automatic failover and session recovery
- Persistent reservations for clustered access
- Multi-host access coordination
- Heartbeat and liveliness detection
- Distributed lock management
- Quorum mechanisms in shared storage
- Failover testing procedures
- Reconnection timeout tuning
- State synchronization between controllers
- Non-disruptive firmware updates
- Rolling upgrades in production clusters
- Redundant path management
- Validating failover success with scripts
Module 13: Scaling NVMe-OF in Data Centers - Designing scalable NVMe-OF topologies
- Spine-leaf architecture for storage fabrics
- Bandwidth oversubscription calculations
- Determining optimal target-to-host ratios
- Network interface card selection guide
- Load balancing across multiple paths
- Topology-aware scheduling in Kubernetes
- Integration with CNI plugins for containers
- Distributed metadata services
- Namespace placement strategies
- QoS policies for multi-tenant systems
- Rate limiting and bandwidth allocation
- Capacity planning for petabyte-scale systems
- Managing firmware and software lifecycle
- Automated provisioning with Ansible
Module 14: Integration with Virtualization and Cloud - VMware vSphere and NVMe-OF support
- Configuring VMs with NVMe virtual disks
- NVMe passthrough in ESXi
- Hyper-V and Windows Server integration
- KVM and QEMU NVMe backends
- SPDK as a virtual NVMe target
- OpenStack Cinder with NVMe-OF drivers
- Kubernetes CSI drivers for persistent storage
- Dynamic provisioning of NVMe volumes
- Storage classes and reclaim policies
- Cloud provider integration (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Using NVMe in serverless architectures
- Edge computing and low-latency requirements
- Backup and snapshot strategies
- Disaster recovery planning for NVMe systems
Module 15: Diagnostics and Troubleshooting - Systematic approach to NVMe issues
- Checking link training and PCIe status
- Verifying queue allocation and memory maps
- Interpreting dmesg and kernel logs
- Common connection errors in NVMe-OF
- Troubleshooting discovery failures
- Resolving transport-level timeouts
- Diagnosing RoCE packet loss
- Using tcpdump for NVMe/TCP analysis
- Parsing NVMe/TCP packet structures
- Verifying NQN consistency across host and target
- Testing path MTU and fragmentation
- Validating firewall rules for NVMe-OF
- Checking RDMA device status
- Using ibstat and rdma tooling
Module 16: Advanced Use Cases and Real-World Implementations - Real-time analytics with NVMe-OF storage
- HPC workloads and burst buffer design
- AI/ML training data pipelines
- In-memory database tiering with NVMe
- Financial trading systems and microsecond latency
- Media streaming and video editing workloads
- Gaming infrastructure with low-persistence storage
- Automotive simulation and testing environments
- Telecom edge caching with distributed NVMe
- Content delivery networks using NVMe-OF
- Stateful serverless functions with ephemeral NVMe
- CI/CD pipelines with fast artifact retrieval
- Database log storage on ultra-low latency drives
- Time-series data ingestion patterns
- Building a shared nothing architecture
Module 17: Building Your First NVMe-OF Environment - Selecting hardware for a proof-of-concept
- Setting up a Linux-based NVMe target
- Installing and configuring SPDK
- Creating a virtual NVMe controller
- Exporting a namespace over TCP
- Configuring RDMA capable hardware
- Setting up a RoCEv2 network
- Connecting a remote host using nvme connect
- Mounting and testing read/write performance
- Validating end-to-end connectivity
- Enabling multipath for redundancy
- Automating connection at boot
- Documenting configuration steps
- Creating a repeatable deployment script
- Benchmarking before and after optimization
Module 18: Certification and Career Advancement - Overview of the final assessment process
- Practice exercises to prepare for certification
- Hands-on project: design a secure NVMe-OF system
- Documenting architectural decisions
- Implementing access control and encryption
- Configuring monitoring and alerting
- Testing failover and recovery procedures
- Creating a performance optimization report
- Submitting your capstone project
- Review criteria and grading rubric
- Receiving feedback from subject matter experts
- Earning your Certificate of Completion
- How to showcase your credential on LinkedIn
- Updating your resume with verified skills
- Lifetime access to update your certification portfolio
- NVMe/TCP: implementation and stack layers
- Kernel bypass techniques for TCP performance
- SO_REUSEPORT and multi-queue support
- Offload engines and hardware acceleration
- NVMe/RoCE: RDMA over Converged Ethernet
- PFC and ECN for lossless Ethernet
- RNIC and CQ management in RoCE
- Memory registration and zero-copy I/O
- NVMe/FC: Fibre Channel adaptation layer
- Zoning and LUN mapping in FC-NVMe
- FC-NVMe vs traditional FCP
- Transport latency benchmarks and comparisons
- Selecting the right transport for your environment
- Multipath support across transports
- Session failover and reconnect behavior
Module 7: NVMe-OF Discovery and Name Services - Discovery controllers and discovery logs
- Retrieving subsystem information via discovery
- Format of discovery log page entries
- Using discovery to find subsystems dynamically
- Static vs dynamic discovery methods
- Discovery over TCP and RDMA transports
- Port specification and addressing in discovery
- Subnqn and hostnqn naming conventions
- Authentication via NQN identifiers
- Configuring discovery clients
- Discovery retry and timeout settings
- Security considerations in discovery
- Discovery in multi-tenant environments
- Automating discovery with scripts
- Monitoring discovery session health
Module 8: Subsystem and Namespace Management - NVMe subsystem architecture and components
- NQN assignment and namespace export rules
- Creating and deleting namespaces on target
- Resizing namespaces dynamically
- Attaching and detaching namespaces
- Access control and access rights management
- Thin provisioning and over-subscription
- Persistent reservation and exclusive access
- Namespace sharing across multiple hosts
- Handling concurrent access safely
- Namespace tagging and metadata
- Performance isolation between namespaces
- Reservations for clustered applications
- Administrative command forwarding
- Monitoring namespace usage in real time
Module 9: Security and Authentication in NVMe-OF - Authentication models: pre-shared keys, certificates
- Role of TLS in NVMe/TCP security
- Data encryption in flight and at rest
- CHAP authentication for NVMe-OF
- One-way and mutual CHAP setup
- Secure discovery and connect processes
- Certificate-based identity validation
- Access control lists by NQN
- RBAC integration with identity providers
- Auditing and logging access attempts
- Session encryption strength and cipher suites
- Secure boot and firmware validation
- Trusted platform module integration
- Role of SPDK in secure deployment
- Best practices for hardening NVMe-OF
Module 10: Performance Tuning and Optimization - Queue depth and I/O size optimization
- Measuring throughput and latency accurately
- Using FIO for benchmarking NVMe devices
- Tuning FIO jobs for random vs sequential workloads
- Impact of block size on IOPS and bandwidth
- NUMA alignment for multi-socket systems
- CPU interrupt coalescing settings
- GPU-Direct Storage and its benefits
- Reducing context switches in high-load scenarios
- Tuning TCP window size for NVMe/TCP
- RoCE packet pacing and congestion control
- Enabling large receive offload (LRO)
- SR-IOV and passthrough for VMs
- Device queues and host queue pairing
- Monitoring with perf and bpftrace
Module 11: Monitoring and Observability - Smart log collection and interpretation
- Temperature, wear leveling, and availability
- Endurance estimation and life remaining
- Error logs and autonomous log pages
- Telemetry log pages and host-initiated capture
- Vendor-specific log page support
- Integrating NVMe logs into SIEM tools
- Prometheus exporters for NVMe metrics
- Grafana dashboards for real-time monitoring
- Alerting on threshold breaches
- End-to-end fabric latency tracing
- Correlating device health with application QoS
- Collecting and storing historical performance data
- Root cause analysis for performance drops
- Monitoring session stability in NVMe-OF
Module 12: High Availability and Failover - Active-active vs active-passive configurations
- Handling controller failure in NVMe storage
- Automatic failover and session recovery
- Persistent reservations for clustered access
- Multi-host access coordination
- Heartbeat and liveliness detection
- Distributed lock management
- Quorum mechanisms in shared storage
- Failover testing procedures
- Reconnection timeout tuning
- State synchronization between controllers
- Non-disruptive firmware updates
- Rolling upgrades in production clusters
- Redundant path management
- Validating failover success with scripts
Module 13: Scaling NVMe-OF in Data Centers - Designing scalable NVMe-OF topologies
- Spine-leaf architecture for storage fabrics
- Bandwidth oversubscription calculations
- Determining optimal target-to-host ratios
- Network interface card selection guide
- Load balancing across multiple paths
- Topology-aware scheduling in Kubernetes
- Integration with CNI plugins for containers
- Distributed metadata services
- Namespace placement strategies
- QoS policies for multi-tenant systems
- Rate limiting and bandwidth allocation
- Capacity planning for petabyte-scale systems
- Managing firmware and software lifecycle
- Automated provisioning with Ansible
Module 14: Integration with Virtualization and Cloud - VMware vSphere and NVMe-OF support
- Configuring VMs with NVMe virtual disks
- NVMe passthrough in ESXi
- Hyper-V and Windows Server integration
- KVM and QEMU NVMe backends
- SPDK as a virtual NVMe target
- OpenStack Cinder with NVMe-OF drivers
- Kubernetes CSI drivers for persistent storage
- Dynamic provisioning of NVMe volumes
- Storage classes and reclaim policies
- Cloud provider integration (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Using NVMe in serverless architectures
- Edge computing and low-latency requirements
- Backup and snapshot strategies
- Disaster recovery planning for NVMe systems
Module 15: Diagnostics and Troubleshooting - Systematic approach to NVMe issues
- Checking link training and PCIe status
- Verifying queue allocation and memory maps
- Interpreting dmesg and kernel logs
- Common connection errors in NVMe-OF
- Troubleshooting discovery failures
- Resolving transport-level timeouts
- Diagnosing RoCE packet loss
- Using tcpdump for NVMe/TCP analysis
- Parsing NVMe/TCP packet structures
- Verifying NQN consistency across host and target
- Testing path MTU and fragmentation
- Validating firewall rules for NVMe-OF
- Checking RDMA device status
- Using ibstat and rdma tooling
Module 16: Advanced Use Cases and Real-World Implementations - Real-time analytics with NVMe-OF storage
- HPC workloads and burst buffer design
- AI/ML training data pipelines
- In-memory database tiering with NVMe
- Financial trading systems and microsecond latency
- Media streaming and video editing workloads
- Gaming infrastructure with low-persistence storage
- Automotive simulation and testing environments
- Telecom edge caching with distributed NVMe
- Content delivery networks using NVMe-OF
- Stateful serverless functions with ephemeral NVMe
- CI/CD pipelines with fast artifact retrieval
- Database log storage on ultra-low latency drives
- Time-series data ingestion patterns
- Building a shared nothing architecture
Module 17: Building Your First NVMe-OF Environment - Selecting hardware for a proof-of-concept
- Setting up a Linux-based NVMe target
- Installing and configuring SPDK
- Creating a virtual NVMe controller
- Exporting a namespace over TCP
- Configuring RDMA capable hardware
- Setting up a RoCEv2 network
- Connecting a remote host using nvme connect
- Mounting and testing read/write performance
- Validating end-to-end connectivity
- Enabling multipath for redundancy
- Automating connection at boot
- Documenting configuration steps
- Creating a repeatable deployment script
- Benchmarking before and after optimization
Module 18: Certification and Career Advancement - Overview of the final assessment process
- Practice exercises to prepare for certification
- Hands-on project: design a secure NVMe-OF system
- Documenting architectural decisions
- Implementing access control and encryption
- Configuring monitoring and alerting
- Testing failover and recovery procedures
- Creating a performance optimization report
- Submitting your capstone project
- Review criteria and grading rubric
- Receiving feedback from subject matter experts
- Earning your Certificate of Completion
- How to showcase your credential on LinkedIn
- Updating your resume with verified skills
- Lifetime access to update your certification portfolio
- NVMe subsystem architecture and components
- NQN assignment and namespace export rules
- Creating and deleting namespaces on target
- Resizing namespaces dynamically
- Attaching and detaching namespaces
- Access control and access rights management
- Thin provisioning and over-subscription
- Persistent reservation and exclusive access
- Namespace sharing across multiple hosts
- Handling concurrent access safely
- Namespace tagging and metadata
- Performance isolation between namespaces
- Reservations for clustered applications
- Administrative command forwarding
- Monitoring namespace usage in real time
Module 9: Security and Authentication in NVMe-OF - Authentication models: pre-shared keys, certificates
- Role of TLS in NVMe/TCP security
- Data encryption in flight and at rest
- CHAP authentication for NVMe-OF
- One-way and mutual CHAP setup
- Secure discovery and connect processes
- Certificate-based identity validation
- Access control lists by NQN
- RBAC integration with identity providers
- Auditing and logging access attempts
- Session encryption strength and cipher suites
- Secure boot and firmware validation
- Trusted platform module integration
- Role of SPDK in secure deployment
- Best practices for hardening NVMe-OF
Module 10: Performance Tuning and Optimization - Queue depth and I/O size optimization
- Measuring throughput and latency accurately
- Using FIO for benchmarking NVMe devices
- Tuning FIO jobs for random vs sequential workloads
- Impact of block size on IOPS and bandwidth
- NUMA alignment for multi-socket systems
- CPU interrupt coalescing settings
- GPU-Direct Storage and its benefits
- Reducing context switches in high-load scenarios
- Tuning TCP window size for NVMe/TCP
- RoCE packet pacing and congestion control
- Enabling large receive offload (LRO)
- SR-IOV and passthrough for VMs
- Device queues and host queue pairing
- Monitoring with perf and bpftrace
Module 11: Monitoring and Observability - Smart log collection and interpretation
- Temperature, wear leveling, and availability
- Endurance estimation and life remaining
- Error logs and autonomous log pages
- Telemetry log pages and host-initiated capture
- Vendor-specific log page support
- Integrating NVMe logs into SIEM tools
- Prometheus exporters for NVMe metrics
- Grafana dashboards for real-time monitoring
- Alerting on threshold breaches
- End-to-end fabric latency tracing
- Correlating device health with application QoS
- Collecting and storing historical performance data
- Root cause analysis for performance drops
- Monitoring session stability in NVMe-OF
Module 12: High Availability and Failover - Active-active vs active-passive configurations
- Handling controller failure in NVMe storage
- Automatic failover and session recovery
- Persistent reservations for clustered access
- Multi-host access coordination
- Heartbeat and liveliness detection
- Distributed lock management
- Quorum mechanisms in shared storage
- Failover testing procedures
- Reconnection timeout tuning
- State synchronization between controllers
- Non-disruptive firmware updates
- Rolling upgrades in production clusters
- Redundant path management
- Validating failover success with scripts
Module 13: Scaling NVMe-OF in Data Centers - Designing scalable NVMe-OF topologies
- Spine-leaf architecture for storage fabrics
- Bandwidth oversubscription calculations
- Determining optimal target-to-host ratios
- Network interface card selection guide
- Load balancing across multiple paths
- Topology-aware scheduling in Kubernetes
- Integration with CNI plugins for containers
- Distributed metadata services
- Namespace placement strategies
- QoS policies for multi-tenant systems
- Rate limiting and bandwidth allocation
- Capacity planning for petabyte-scale systems
- Managing firmware and software lifecycle
- Automated provisioning with Ansible
Module 14: Integration with Virtualization and Cloud - VMware vSphere and NVMe-OF support
- Configuring VMs with NVMe virtual disks
- NVMe passthrough in ESXi
- Hyper-V and Windows Server integration
- KVM and QEMU NVMe backends
- SPDK as a virtual NVMe target
- OpenStack Cinder with NVMe-OF drivers
- Kubernetes CSI drivers for persistent storage
- Dynamic provisioning of NVMe volumes
- Storage classes and reclaim policies
- Cloud provider integration (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Using NVMe in serverless architectures
- Edge computing and low-latency requirements
- Backup and snapshot strategies
- Disaster recovery planning for NVMe systems
Module 15: Diagnostics and Troubleshooting - Systematic approach to NVMe issues
- Checking link training and PCIe status
- Verifying queue allocation and memory maps
- Interpreting dmesg and kernel logs
- Common connection errors in NVMe-OF
- Troubleshooting discovery failures
- Resolving transport-level timeouts
- Diagnosing RoCE packet loss
- Using tcpdump for NVMe/TCP analysis
- Parsing NVMe/TCP packet structures
- Verifying NQN consistency across host and target
- Testing path MTU and fragmentation
- Validating firewall rules for NVMe-OF
- Checking RDMA device status
- Using ibstat and rdma tooling
Module 16: Advanced Use Cases and Real-World Implementations - Real-time analytics with NVMe-OF storage
- HPC workloads and burst buffer design
- AI/ML training data pipelines
- In-memory database tiering with NVMe
- Financial trading systems and microsecond latency
- Media streaming and video editing workloads
- Gaming infrastructure with low-persistence storage
- Automotive simulation and testing environments
- Telecom edge caching with distributed NVMe
- Content delivery networks using NVMe-OF
- Stateful serverless functions with ephemeral NVMe
- CI/CD pipelines with fast artifact retrieval
- Database log storage on ultra-low latency drives
- Time-series data ingestion patterns
- Building a shared nothing architecture
Module 17: Building Your First NVMe-OF Environment - Selecting hardware for a proof-of-concept
- Setting up a Linux-based NVMe target
- Installing and configuring SPDK
- Creating a virtual NVMe controller
- Exporting a namespace over TCP
- Configuring RDMA capable hardware
- Setting up a RoCEv2 network
- Connecting a remote host using nvme connect
- Mounting and testing read/write performance
- Validating end-to-end connectivity
- Enabling multipath for redundancy
- Automating connection at boot
- Documenting configuration steps
- Creating a repeatable deployment script
- Benchmarking before and after optimization
Module 18: Certification and Career Advancement - Overview of the final assessment process
- Practice exercises to prepare for certification
- Hands-on project: design a secure NVMe-OF system
- Documenting architectural decisions
- Implementing access control and encryption
- Configuring monitoring and alerting
- Testing failover and recovery procedures
- Creating a performance optimization report
- Submitting your capstone project
- Review criteria and grading rubric
- Receiving feedback from subject matter experts
- Earning your Certificate of Completion
- How to showcase your credential on LinkedIn
- Updating your resume with verified skills
- Lifetime access to update your certification portfolio
- Queue depth and I/O size optimization
- Measuring throughput and latency accurately
- Using FIO for benchmarking NVMe devices
- Tuning FIO jobs for random vs sequential workloads
- Impact of block size on IOPS and bandwidth
- NUMA alignment for multi-socket systems
- CPU interrupt coalescing settings
- GPU-Direct Storage and its benefits
- Reducing context switches in high-load scenarios
- Tuning TCP window size for NVMe/TCP
- RoCE packet pacing and congestion control
- Enabling large receive offload (LRO)
- SR-IOV and passthrough for VMs
- Device queues and host queue pairing
- Monitoring with perf and bpftrace
Module 11: Monitoring and Observability - Smart log collection and interpretation
- Temperature, wear leveling, and availability
- Endurance estimation and life remaining
- Error logs and autonomous log pages
- Telemetry log pages and host-initiated capture
- Vendor-specific log page support
- Integrating NVMe logs into SIEM tools
- Prometheus exporters for NVMe metrics
- Grafana dashboards for real-time monitoring
- Alerting on threshold breaches
- End-to-end fabric latency tracing
- Correlating device health with application QoS
- Collecting and storing historical performance data
- Root cause analysis for performance drops
- Monitoring session stability in NVMe-OF
Module 12: High Availability and Failover - Active-active vs active-passive configurations
- Handling controller failure in NVMe storage
- Automatic failover and session recovery
- Persistent reservations for clustered access
- Multi-host access coordination
- Heartbeat and liveliness detection
- Distributed lock management
- Quorum mechanisms in shared storage
- Failover testing procedures
- Reconnection timeout tuning
- State synchronization between controllers
- Non-disruptive firmware updates
- Rolling upgrades in production clusters
- Redundant path management
- Validating failover success with scripts
Module 13: Scaling NVMe-OF in Data Centers - Designing scalable NVMe-OF topologies
- Spine-leaf architecture for storage fabrics
- Bandwidth oversubscription calculations
- Determining optimal target-to-host ratios
- Network interface card selection guide
- Load balancing across multiple paths
- Topology-aware scheduling in Kubernetes
- Integration with CNI plugins for containers
- Distributed metadata services
- Namespace placement strategies
- QoS policies for multi-tenant systems
- Rate limiting and bandwidth allocation
- Capacity planning for petabyte-scale systems
- Managing firmware and software lifecycle
- Automated provisioning with Ansible
Module 14: Integration with Virtualization and Cloud - VMware vSphere and NVMe-OF support
- Configuring VMs with NVMe virtual disks
- NVMe passthrough in ESXi
- Hyper-V and Windows Server integration
- KVM and QEMU NVMe backends
- SPDK as a virtual NVMe target
- OpenStack Cinder with NVMe-OF drivers
- Kubernetes CSI drivers for persistent storage
- Dynamic provisioning of NVMe volumes
- Storage classes and reclaim policies
- Cloud provider integration (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Using NVMe in serverless architectures
- Edge computing and low-latency requirements
- Backup and snapshot strategies
- Disaster recovery planning for NVMe systems
Module 15: Diagnostics and Troubleshooting - Systematic approach to NVMe issues
- Checking link training and PCIe status
- Verifying queue allocation and memory maps
- Interpreting dmesg and kernel logs
- Common connection errors in NVMe-OF
- Troubleshooting discovery failures
- Resolving transport-level timeouts
- Diagnosing RoCE packet loss
- Using tcpdump for NVMe/TCP analysis
- Parsing NVMe/TCP packet structures
- Verifying NQN consistency across host and target
- Testing path MTU and fragmentation
- Validating firewall rules for NVMe-OF
- Checking RDMA device status
- Using ibstat and rdma tooling
Module 16: Advanced Use Cases and Real-World Implementations - Real-time analytics with NVMe-OF storage
- HPC workloads and burst buffer design
- AI/ML training data pipelines
- In-memory database tiering with NVMe
- Financial trading systems and microsecond latency
- Media streaming and video editing workloads
- Gaming infrastructure with low-persistence storage
- Automotive simulation and testing environments
- Telecom edge caching with distributed NVMe
- Content delivery networks using NVMe-OF
- Stateful serverless functions with ephemeral NVMe
- CI/CD pipelines with fast artifact retrieval
- Database log storage on ultra-low latency drives
- Time-series data ingestion patterns
- Building a shared nothing architecture
Module 17: Building Your First NVMe-OF Environment - Selecting hardware for a proof-of-concept
- Setting up a Linux-based NVMe target
- Installing and configuring SPDK
- Creating a virtual NVMe controller
- Exporting a namespace over TCP
- Configuring RDMA capable hardware
- Setting up a RoCEv2 network
- Connecting a remote host using nvme connect
- Mounting and testing read/write performance
- Validating end-to-end connectivity
- Enabling multipath for redundancy
- Automating connection at boot
- Documenting configuration steps
- Creating a repeatable deployment script
- Benchmarking before and after optimization
Module 18: Certification and Career Advancement - Overview of the final assessment process
- Practice exercises to prepare for certification
- Hands-on project: design a secure NVMe-OF system
- Documenting architectural decisions
- Implementing access control and encryption
- Configuring monitoring and alerting
- Testing failover and recovery procedures
- Creating a performance optimization report
- Submitting your capstone project
- Review criteria and grading rubric
- Receiving feedback from subject matter experts
- Earning your Certificate of Completion
- How to showcase your credential on LinkedIn
- Updating your resume with verified skills
- Lifetime access to update your certification portfolio
- Active-active vs active-passive configurations
- Handling controller failure in NVMe storage
- Automatic failover and session recovery
- Persistent reservations for clustered access
- Multi-host access coordination
- Heartbeat and liveliness detection
- Distributed lock management
- Quorum mechanisms in shared storage
- Failover testing procedures
- Reconnection timeout tuning
- State synchronization between controllers
- Non-disruptive firmware updates
- Rolling upgrades in production clusters
- Redundant path management
- Validating failover success with scripts
Module 13: Scaling NVMe-OF in Data Centers - Designing scalable NVMe-OF topologies
- Spine-leaf architecture for storage fabrics
- Bandwidth oversubscription calculations
- Determining optimal target-to-host ratios
- Network interface card selection guide
- Load balancing across multiple paths
- Topology-aware scheduling in Kubernetes
- Integration with CNI plugins for containers
- Distributed metadata services
- Namespace placement strategies
- QoS policies for multi-tenant systems
- Rate limiting and bandwidth allocation
- Capacity planning for petabyte-scale systems
- Managing firmware and software lifecycle
- Automated provisioning with Ansible
Module 14: Integration with Virtualization and Cloud - VMware vSphere and NVMe-OF support
- Configuring VMs with NVMe virtual disks
- NVMe passthrough in ESXi
- Hyper-V and Windows Server integration
- KVM and QEMU NVMe backends
- SPDK as a virtual NVMe target
- OpenStack Cinder with NVMe-OF drivers
- Kubernetes CSI drivers for persistent storage
- Dynamic provisioning of NVMe volumes
- Storage classes and reclaim policies
- Cloud provider integration (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Using NVMe in serverless architectures
- Edge computing and low-latency requirements
- Backup and snapshot strategies
- Disaster recovery planning for NVMe systems
Module 15: Diagnostics and Troubleshooting - Systematic approach to NVMe issues
- Checking link training and PCIe status
- Verifying queue allocation and memory maps
- Interpreting dmesg and kernel logs
- Common connection errors in NVMe-OF
- Troubleshooting discovery failures
- Resolving transport-level timeouts
- Diagnosing RoCE packet loss
- Using tcpdump for NVMe/TCP analysis
- Parsing NVMe/TCP packet structures
- Verifying NQN consistency across host and target
- Testing path MTU and fragmentation
- Validating firewall rules for NVMe-OF
- Checking RDMA device status
- Using ibstat and rdma tooling
Module 16: Advanced Use Cases and Real-World Implementations - Real-time analytics with NVMe-OF storage
- HPC workloads and burst buffer design
- AI/ML training data pipelines
- In-memory database tiering with NVMe
- Financial trading systems and microsecond latency
- Media streaming and video editing workloads
- Gaming infrastructure with low-persistence storage
- Automotive simulation and testing environments
- Telecom edge caching with distributed NVMe
- Content delivery networks using NVMe-OF
- Stateful serverless functions with ephemeral NVMe
- CI/CD pipelines with fast artifact retrieval
- Database log storage on ultra-low latency drives
- Time-series data ingestion patterns
- Building a shared nothing architecture
Module 17: Building Your First NVMe-OF Environment - Selecting hardware for a proof-of-concept
- Setting up a Linux-based NVMe target
- Installing and configuring SPDK
- Creating a virtual NVMe controller
- Exporting a namespace over TCP
- Configuring RDMA capable hardware
- Setting up a RoCEv2 network
- Connecting a remote host using nvme connect
- Mounting and testing read/write performance
- Validating end-to-end connectivity
- Enabling multipath for redundancy
- Automating connection at boot
- Documenting configuration steps
- Creating a repeatable deployment script
- Benchmarking before and after optimization
Module 18: Certification and Career Advancement - Overview of the final assessment process
- Practice exercises to prepare for certification
- Hands-on project: design a secure NVMe-OF system
- Documenting architectural decisions
- Implementing access control and encryption
- Configuring monitoring and alerting
- Testing failover and recovery procedures
- Creating a performance optimization report
- Submitting your capstone project
- Review criteria and grading rubric
- Receiving feedback from subject matter experts
- Earning your Certificate of Completion
- How to showcase your credential on LinkedIn
- Updating your resume with verified skills
- Lifetime access to update your certification portfolio
- VMware vSphere and NVMe-OF support
- Configuring VMs with NVMe virtual disks
- NVMe passthrough in ESXi
- Hyper-V and Windows Server integration
- KVM and QEMU NVMe backends
- SPDK as a virtual NVMe target
- OpenStack Cinder with NVMe-OF drivers
- Kubernetes CSI drivers for persistent storage
- Dynamic provisioning of NVMe volumes
- Storage classes and reclaim policies
- Cloud provider integration (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Using NVMe in serverless architectures
- Edge computing and low-latency requirements
- Backup and snapshot strategies
- Disaster recovery planning for NVMe systems
Module 15: Diagnostics and Troubleshooting - Systematic approach to NVMe issues
- Checking link training and PCIe status
- Verifying queue allocation and memory maps
- Interpreting dmesg and kernel logs
- Common connection errors in NVMe-OF
- Troubleshooting discovery failures
- Resolving transport-level timeouts
- Diagnosing RoCE packet loss
- Using tcpdump for NVMe/TCP analysis
- Parsing NVMe/TCP packet structures
- Verifying NQN consistency across host and target
- Testing path MTU and fragmentation
- Validating firewall rules for NVMe-OF
- Checking RDMA device status
- Using ibstat and rdma tooling
Module 16: Advanced Use Cases and Real-World Implementations - Real-time analytics with NVMe-OF storage
- HPC workloads and burst buffer design
- AI/ML training data pipelines
- In-memory database tiering with NVMe
- Financial trading systems and microsecond latency
- Media streaming and video editing workloads
- Gaming infrastructure with low-persistence storage
- Automotive simulation and testing environments
- Telecom edge caching with distributed NVMe
- Content delivery networks using NVMe-OF
- Stateful serverless functions with ephemeral NVMe
- CI/CD pipelines with fast artifact retrieval
- Database log storage on ultra-low latency drives
- Time-series data ingestion patterns
- Building a shared nothing architecture
Module 17: Building Your First NVMe-OF Environment - Selecting hardware for a proof-of-concept
- Setting up a Linux-based NVMe target
- Installing and configuring SPDK
- Creating a virtual NVMe controller
- Exporting a namespace over TCP
- Configuring RDMA capable hardware
- Setting up a RoCEv2 network
- Connecting a remote host using nvme connect
- Mounting and testing read/write performance
- Validating end-to-end connectivity
- Enabling multipath for redundancy
- Automating connection at boot
- Documenting configuration steps
- Creating a repeatable deployment script
- Benchmarking before and after optimization
Module 18: Certification and Career Advancement - Overview of the final assessment process
- Practice exercises to prepare for certification
- Hands-on project: design a secure NVMe-OF system
- Documenting architectural decisions
- Implementing access control and encryption
- Configuring monitoring and alerting
- Testing failover and recovery procedures
- Creating a performance optimization report
- Submitting your capstone project
- Review criteria and grading rubric
- Receiving feedback from subject matter experts
- Earning your Certificate of Completion
- How to showcase your credential on LinkedIn
- Updating your resume with verified skills
- Lifetime access to update your certification portfolio
- Real-time analytics with NVMe-OF storage
- HPC workloads and burst buffer design
- AI/ML training data pipelines
- In-memory database tiering with NVMe
- Financial trading systems and microsecond latency
- Media streaming and video editing workloads
- Gaming infrastructure with low-persistence storage
- Automotive simulation and testing environments
- Telecom edge caching with distributed NVMe
- Content delivery networks using NVMe-OF
- Stateful serverless functions with ephemeral NVMe
- CI/CD pipelines with fast artifact retrieval
- Database log storage on ultra-low latency drives
- Time-series data ingestion patterns
- Building a shared nothing architecture
Module 17: Building Your First NVMe-OF Environment - Selecting hardware for a proof-of-concept
- Setting up a Linux-based NVMe target
- Installing and configuring SPDK
- Creating a virtual NVMe controller
- Exporting a namespace over TCP
- Configuring RDMA capable hardware
- Setting up a RoCEv2 network
- Connecting a remote host using nvme connect
- Mounting and testing read/write performance
- Validating end-to-end connectivity
- Enabling multipath for redundancy
- Automating connection at boot
- Documenting configuration steps
- Creating a repeatable deployment script
- Benchmarking before and after optimization
Module 18: Certification and Career Advancement - Overview of the final assessment process
- Practice exercises to prepare for certification
- Hands-on project: design a secure NVMe-OF system
- Documenting architectural decisions
- Implementing access control and encryption
- Configuring monitoring and alerting
- Testing failover and recovery procedures
- Creating a performance optimization report
- Submitting your capstone project
- Review criteria and grading rubric
- Receiving feedback from subject matter experts
- Earning your Certificate of Completion
- How to showcase your credential on LinkedIn
- Updating your resume with verified skills
- Lifetime access to update your certification portfolio
- Overview of the final assessment process
- Practice exercises to prepare for certification
- Hands-on project: design a secure NVMe-OF system
- Documenting architectural decisions
- Implementing access control and encryption
- Configuring monitoring and alerting
- Testing failover and recovery procedures
- Creating a performance optimization report
- Submitting your capstone project
- Review criteria and grading rubric
- Receiving feedback from subject matter experts
- Earning your Certificate of Completion
- How to showcase your credential on LinkedIn
- Updating your resume with verified skills
- Lifetime access to update your certification portfolio