Mellanox Technical Training and Certification Program
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:
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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.
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Mellanox Technical Training and Certification Program
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 4th, 2015: Ethernet solutions’ training and certification
 May 5th , 2015:InfiniBand solutions’ training and certification
o London
 June 15th-16th,2015: 2-day Ethernet solutions’ training and certification
 June 17th, 2015:InfiniBand solutions’ training and certification
o Paris
 June 18th-19th,2015: 2-day Ethernet solutions’ training and certification
 Class time: 9:00-16:30
 Training cost:
o Early registration (until May 1st)
 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
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o The price includes:
 1/2/3 full training days
 Daily lunch
How to Buy?
o Visit http://academy.mellanox.com/shop/index.php/course_list/. Please choose the part
number and pay using credit card or PayPal
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Via a direct purchase order – please send an email to training@mellanox.com
o To - Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. P.O Box 586 Beit Mellanox Yokneam Israel 2069207
o Mellanox Part number- as described above
o Quantity - According to the number of seats being purchased
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Training Agenda:
InfiniBand Training (Available in London and Frankfurt) – 1 Day
InfiniBand Architecture
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InfiniBand architecture model
The physical layer
The link layer
The network layer
The transport layer
Upper layers protocol overview
InfiniBand Managament
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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
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OFED/WINOF utilities overview
Cluster based utilities
Node based utilities
Route based utilities
Diagnostic utilities
Counters
InfiniBand Fabric Monitoring - Wrokshop
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SNMP, email notifications and remote logging configuration
Scheduling InfiniBand validation checks
OpenSM configuration
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Mellanox solutions & Products - The EDR Generation (100GB/s)
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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
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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
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Ethernet Training (Available in London and Paris) – 2 Days
Mellanox Ethernet Products Overview
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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
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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
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Mellanox Technical Training and Certification Program
Datacenter Scalability Solutions
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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
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Introduction to open Ethernet
Open Ethernet Architecture
Current status
Mellanox open Ethernet products
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Ethernet Training (Available only in Frankfurt) – 1 Day
Mellanox Ethernet Products Overview
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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
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Mellanox’s Cloud-X
o General overview
o SW overview
o Cloud-X installation and implementation
L2 Functions
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Demonstration: L2 protocols (R/M/STP, LAG, LACP) configuration with Mellanox Switches
MLAG
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Introduction to MLAG
MLAG Protocol configuration
MLAG wizard overview
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L3 Functions
OSPF
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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
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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
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Workshop- BGP configuration with Mellanox Switches
Multicast
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Introduction to MC
MC L2 & L3 addressing
IGMPv2
IGMPv2 snooping
MC routing tables
MC routing protocols
o PIM1
R/RoCE overview
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RoCE Specification
Stack Block Diagram
Lossless Fabric
Congestion Control
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