Mellanox Technical Training and Certification Program

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1 Mellanox Technical Partner Certification Program is a world-class certification program, designed for Mellanox partners' technical professionals to ensure and validate the technical and sales required competencies and expertise to sell, plan, deploy, support and service Mellanox technologies and solutions. This program was built and customized to fit the needs in the European market. We can only provide a limited number of seats in each location- please make sure to enroll as soon as possible! The aim of the program is to provide its graduates with the education, tools and skills needed to succeed in today's highly competitive landscape. The program is built upon a set of technical requirements that ensure individuals, their employers and their customers, that they have the proven technical competence to sell, design and deliver Mellanox technologies, services and solutions. With certified employees, Mellanox partners and customers can provide outstanding and consistent technology solutions. Mellanox Technical Partner Certification Program aimed for Mellanox partners employees in product expert teams, field engineers, service and support roles and other technical specialists. The program s architecture is based on specific best practice focus areas. Students will be exposed to Mellanox products, advanced tools, advanced features and techniques, as well as main considerations to be taken while implementing Mellanox s solutions. Mellanox Partner Technical Certification Program offers a strong professional framework that builds and validates industry-valued competencies. The Program benefits: A world-wide recognized certification program that saves time and money, while strengthening the students capabilities, better serve customers, and build connections to reach the full business potential. A great opportunity to be exposed to official technical content, meet Mellanox leading field engineers and discuss common challenges. Effective and consistent high standards of excellence in the Mellanox product support and service arenas. High level of organizational confidence and satisfaction knowing your competencies and skills have been validated by Mellanox.

2 The program s main features: Each student gets the personal annual GOLD Mellanox Online Academy membership (usually costs $880) - FOR FREE The training includes hands-on practice using Mellanox s official remote lab Each student gets the official Mellanox course book The course is delivered by a Mellanox certified instructor Once passing the certification exam (during the course), the students will get the official Mellanox Technical certification award (online and printed) Locations and dates: o Frankfurt: May 4 th, 2015: Ethernet solutions training and certification May 5 th, 2015:InfiniBand solutions training and certification o London June 15 th -16 th,2015: 2-day Ethernet solutions training and certification June 17 th, 2015:InfiniBand solutions training and certification o Paris June 18 th -19 th,2015: 2-day Ethernet solutions training and certification Class time: 9:00-16:30 o Training cost: o Early registration (until May 1 st ) 1-day training: $400 per seat 2-day training: $700 per seat 3-day training: $800 per seat o Standard registration: 1-day training: $450 per seat 2-day training: $800 per seat 3-day training: $900 per seat The price includes: 1/2/3 full training days Daily lunch How to Buy? o Visit Please choose the part number and pay using credit card or PayPal Via a direct purchase order please send an to [email protected] o To - Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. P.O Box 586 Beit Mellanox Yokneam Israel o o Mellanox Part number- as described above Quantity - According to the number of seats being purchased

3 Training Agenda: InfiniBand Training (Available in London and Frankfurt) 1 Day InfiniBand Architecture InfiniBand architecture model The physical layer The link layer The network layer The transport layer Upper layers protocol overview InfiniBand Managament Management concepts Fabric initialization and subnet manager status InfiniBand fabric topologies overview Pros & Cons Routing algorithm considerations Multicast InfiniBand Drivers OFED and WINOF overview New OFED/WINOF features InfiniBand cluster analysis - workshop OFED/WINOF utilities overview Cluster based utilities Node based utilities Route based utilities Diagnostic utilities Counters InfiniBand Fabric Monitoring - Wrokshop SNMP, notifications and remote logging configuration Scheduling InfiniBand validation checks OpenSM configuration

4 Mellanox solutions & Products - The EDR Generation (100GB/s) InfiniBand/VPI switch portfolio overview, features and benefits Gateway systems overview, features and benefits Adapter card portfolio - overview, features and benefits Long-Haul systems overview InfiniBand products roadmap HPC-X overview Hadoop network solutions Mellanox Care (Mcare) Mellanox Unified Fabric Manager (UFM ) Live Demo UFM flexible deployment modes Fabric dashboard displays o Fabric traffic utilization o Fabric congested analysis o Fabric alarms Fabric health and performance monitoring Fabric events online notifications Fabric online logging Fabric history record

5 Ethernet Training (Available in London and Paris) 2 Days Mellanox Ethernet Products Overview General overview of Mellanox s Ethernet products portfolio Ethernet switch portfolio o Comprehensive overview on each product o Product features & benefits o Supported switching and routing protocols o Best practices and Cata Center implementations for the various products MLNX-OS o Features and benefits o GUI overview and demonstration o CLI overview and demonstration Gateway systems o Comprehensive overview of GW products o Features and benefits o Mellanox VPI overview o VPI installation and configuration - demo o Wizards overview - demo o Best practices and Data Center implementations Adapter cards portfolio o Comprehensive overview on each product o Product features & benefits o Supported switching and routing protocols Mellanox Solutions and services Cloud Solutions Introduction to cloud computing Introduction to Openstack Mellanox s Cloud-X o General overview o SW overview o Introduction to virtualization protocols SR-IOV NVGRE VxLAN o Cloud-X installation and implementation

6 Datacenter Scalability Solutions Introduction to Data Centers scalability issues and considerations Mellanox Virtual Modular Switch (VMS) o Concept overview o SW overview o Installation wizard demonstration o Data Center implementations Open Ethernet Introduction to open Ethernet Open Ethernet Architecture Current status Mellanox open Ethernet products

7 Ethernet Training (Available only in Frankfurt) 1 Day Mellanox Ethernet Products Overview General overview of Mellanox s Ethernet products portfolio Ethernet switch portfolio o Comprehensive overview on each product o Product features & benefits o Supported switching and routing protocols o Mellanox Virtual Modular Switch Solution o Best practices and Data Center implementations for the various products MLNX-OS o Features and benefits o GUI overview and demonstration o CLI overview and demonstration Gateway systems o Comprehensive overview of GW products o Features and benefits o Mellanox VPI overview o VPI installation and configuration - demo o Wizards overview - demo o Best practices and Data Center implementations Adapter cards portfolio o Comprehensive overview on each product o Product features & benefits o Supported switching and routing protocols Mellanox Cloud Solutions Mellanox s Cloud-X o General overview o SW overview o Cloud-X installation and implementation L2 Functions Demonstration: L2 protocols (R/M/STP, LAG, LACP) configuration with Mellanox Switches MLAG o Introduction to MLAG o MLAG Protocol configuration o MLAG wizard overview

8 L3 Functions OSPF Introducing to OSPF OSPF design areas and ABR The Hello protocol - Neighbors Discovery, DR and BDR election OSPF metric calculation-ecmp OSPF special area types: stub and not so stub area BGP BGP concepts and terminology BGP neighbors IBGP, EBGP. Peer Groups Clearing BGP neighbor Advertising BGP routes: summarizing routes Selecting the BGP path using attributes Manipulating BGP path selection using route map and prefix as-list Workshop- BGP configuration with Mellanox Switches Multicast Introduction to MC MC L2 & L3 addressing IGMPv2 IGMPv2 snooping MC routing tables MC routing protocols o PIM1 R/RoCE overview RoCE Specification Stack Block Diagram Lossless Fabric Congestion Control