1. NFVI Domains and features

Architecture and Functional Blocks of the Compute Domain
Storage Topologies and interconnection: Fiber channel & FCoE
Block-based Storage
File-based Storage
Object-based Storage, Vmawre vSAN
Redhat Ceph Storage description
Architecture and Functional Blocks of the Network Domain
VM to VM communication solutions
NFVI PoPs interconnection using EVPN and VxLAN
Virtual Networks, L2/L3 Interconnection Options
Architecture and Functional Blocks of the Hypervisor Domain
Accelerating the NFV Data Plane with DPDK
Accelerating the NFV Data Plane: using VMdq
Accelerating the NFV Data Plane: using SR-IOV
Understanding PCI Pass through
Huge Pages and Transparent Huge Pages
Accelerating the processor core with Hyperthreading and Non-uniform memory access (NUMA)

2. NFVI and Virtual Infrastructure Manager

Review the VIM role in ETSI architecture
Hypervisor to VIM Interface
VIM Components in VMware vCloud
Open Source VIM : OpenStack
Openstack description and releases
Understanding OpenStack logical architecture
Keystone Project (Identity)
Neutron Project (Networking)
Cinder Project (Block Storage)
Glance Project (Image)
Nova Project (Compute)
Heat Project (Orchestration)
Swift Project (Object Storage)

3. SDN technology integration options with NFV

Interconnecting VNFC using SDN
VNFs across multiple NFVI-PoP locations
SDN across multiple VIM in different NFVI-PoPs
Service Function Chaining (SFC)
SFC, SDN and NFV with a single NFVI domain
Service function chain in the NFVI
Service function chain in the tenant domain
End to end carrier network with SFC, SDN and NFV
The need for Multi Access Edge Computing (MEC)
MEC interworking with SND/NFV