VMware NSX-T Data Center: Design [V3.0]
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- Formats:
Classroom,
Live Online,
vFlex-ILT,
Onsite
- Length: 5 Days
Overview:
This five-day course provides comprehensive training on considerations and practices to design a VMware NSX-T™ Data Center environment as part of a software-defined data center strategy. This course prepares the student with the skills to lead the design of NSX-T Data Center offered in the NSX-T Data Center 3.0 release, including design principles, processes, and frameworks. The student gains a deeper understanding of NSX-T Data Center architecture and how it can be leveraged to create solutions to address the customer’s business needs.
Product Alignment • NSX-T Data Center 3.0 |
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| Objectives: | By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives: • Understand and apply a design framework • Apply a design process for gathering requirements, constraints, assumptions, and risks • Analyze existing physical networking and security components, processes, and operations • Design a VMware vSphere® virtual data center to support NSX-T Data Center requirements • Design a physical network to support network virtualization in a software-defined data center • Design logical network services • Design logical security services • Design a data center rack solution to support scalability and high availability • Analyze alternative design choices for risk mitigation • Understand the design and support for NSX-T Data Center infrastructure in a multi data center infrastructure |
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| Intended Audience: | • Network and security architects and consultants who design the enterprise and data center networks and NSX environments | |
| Prerequisites: | Before taking this course, you should have completed the following course: • VMware NSX-T Data Center: Install, Configure, Manage [V3.0] You should also have the understanding or knowledge of these technologies: • Good understanding of TCP/IP services and protocols • Knowledge and working experience of computer networking, including: • Switching and routing technologies (L2-L3) • Network and application delivery services (L4-L7) • Knowledge and working experience with VMware vSphere environments and KVM-based environments The VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization (2020) certification is recommended. |
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| Outline: | 1 Course Introduction • Introductions and course logistics • Course objectives 2 Basic Design Concepts • Describe the principles of design • Describe the design process and frameworks • Explain VMware Validated Design and its importance 3 NSX-T Data Center Architecture and Components • Explain the NSX-T Data Center and Virtual Cloud Network • Describe the NSX-T Data Center architecture and use cases • List the NSX-T Management cluster design considerations 4 NSX-T Data Center Design Considerations • Explain physical infrastructure design considerations • Explain virtual infrastructure design considerations • List the collapsed management and VMware NSX® Edge™ resources design considerations • Explain dedicated management and NSX Edge resources design 5 Logical Switching Design • Explain the VMware NSX-T™ logical switching design concepts • Describe the traffic flooding concepts 6 NSX-T Data Center Edge Design • List NSX Edge VM design considerations • Explain NSX Edge BareMetal design considerations • Describe NSX Edge cluster design • Explain Bridge design considerations 7 Logical Routing Design • Explain logical router components • Describe multitier routing • Explain IPv6 addressing and routing design concepts • Multi-compute workload domain design considerations 8 NSX-T Data Center Advanced Routing Design • Explain High Availability and Router Placement • L3 Multicast design considerations • Describe VRF Lite and EVPN 9 NSX-T Data Center Network Design • Explain the functionality and considerations of using NAT, Proxy ARP, DHCP, and metadata proxy • Describe the load balancer design considerations • Explain the VPN design considerations 10 NSX-T Data Center Security Design • Explain the Distributed Firewall design concepts • Explain the Identity Firewall design concepts • Explain the Gateway Firewall design concepts • Describe the security policy methodology 11 NSX-T Data Center Federation Design • Explain the Federation functionality • Explain the design concepts for Federation components • Describe the design involved for Federation networking • Review Federation design considerations 12 NSX-T Data Center and Containers • Understand the integration between NSX-T Data Center and vSphere with VMware Tanzu™ • Describe how NSX-T Data Center provides networking, load balancing, and security in vSphere for VMware Tanzu • Describe VMware Tanzu™ Kubernetes Grid™ Service • Understand Tanzu Kubernetes Grid™ cluster networking and load balancing capabilities |
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