VMware NSX-T Data Center: Design [V3.2]

Code: EDU-NSXTD32

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 release 3.2, including design principles, processes, and frameworks. The student gains a deeper understanding of the NSX-T Data Center architecture and how it can be used to create solutions to address the customer’s business needs.

 

Objectives:

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

  • Describe and apply a design framework
  • Apply a design process for gathering requirements, constraints, assumptions, and risks
  • Design a VMware vSphere® virtual data center to support NSX-T Data Center requirements
  • Create a VMware NSX® Manager™ cluster design
  • Create a VMware NSX® Edge™ cluster design to support traffic and service requirements in NSX-T Data Center
  • Design logical switching and routing
  • Recognize NSX-T Data Center security best practices
  • Design logical network services
  • Design a physical network to support network virtualization in a software-defined data center
  • Create a design to support the NSX-T Data Center infrastructure across multiple sites
  • Describe the factors that drive performance in NSX-T Data Center

 

Intended Audience:

Network and security architects and consultants who design the enterprise and data center networks and VMware NSX® environments

 

Prerequisites:

Before taking this course, you must complete the following course:

  • VMware NSX-T Data Center: Install, Configure, Manage [V3.2]

 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 and security, including:
    • Switching and routing technologies (L2-L3)
    • Network and application delivery services (L4-L7)
    • Firewalling (L4-L7)
    • vSphere environments

 The VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization certification is recommended.

 

Product Alignment

  • VMware NSX-T Data Center 3.2


Course Outline:

1 Course Introduction

  • Introduction and course logistics
  • Course objectives


2 NSX Design Concepts

  • Identify design terms
  • Describe framework and project methodology
  • Describe VMware Validated Design™
  • Identify customers’ requirements, assumptions, constraints, and risks
  • Explain the conceptual design
  • Explain the logical design
  • Explain the physical design


3 NSX Architecture and Components

  • Recognize the main elements in the NSX-T Data Center architecture
  • Describe the NSX management cluster and the management plane
  • Identify the functions and components of management, control, and data planes
  • Describe the NSX Manager sizing options
  • Recognize the justification and implication of NSX manager cluster design decisions
  • Identify the NSX management cluster design options


4 NSX Edge Design

  • Explain the leading practices for edge design
  • Describe the NSX Edge VM reference designs
  • Describe the bare-metal NSX Edge reference designs
  • Explain the leading practices for edge cluster design
  • Explain the effect of stateful services placement
  • Explain the growth patterns for edge clusters
  • Identify design considerations when using L2 bridging services


5 NSX Logical Switching Design

  • Describe concepts and terminology in logical switching
  • Identify segment and transport zone design considerations
  • Identify virtual switch design considerations
  • Identify uplink profile, VMware vSphere® Network I/O Control profile, and transport node profile design considerations
  • Identify Geneve tunneling design considerations
  • Identify BUM replication mode design considerations


6 NSX Logical Routing Design

  • Explain the function and features of logical routing
  • Describe NSX-T Data Center single-tier and multitier routing architectures
  • Identify guidelines when selecting a routing topology
  • Describe the BGP and OSPF routing protocol configuration options
  • Explain gateway high availability modes of operation and failure detection mechanisms
  • Identify how multitier architectures provide control over stateful service location
  • Identify VRF Lite requirements and considerations
  • Identify the typical NSX scalable architectures


7 NSX Security Design

  • Identify different security features available in NSX-T Data Center
  • Describe the advantages of an NSX Distributed Firewall
  • Describe the use of NSX Gateway Firewall as a perimeter firewall and as an intertenant firewall
  • Determine a security policy methodology
  • Recognize the NSX-T Data Center security best practices


8 NSX Network Services

  • Identify the stateful services available in different edge cluster high availability modes
  • Describe failover detection mechanisms
  • Explain the design considerations for integrating VMware NSX® Advanced Load Balancer™ with NSX-T Data Center
  • Describe stateful and stateless NSX-T Data Center NAT
  • Identify benefits of NSX-T Data Center DHCP
  • Identify benefits of metadata proxy
  • Describe IPSec VPN and L2 VPN


9 Physical Infrastructure Design

  • Identify the components of a switch fabric design
  • Assess Layer 2 and Layer 3 switch fabric design implications
  • Review guidelines when designing top-of-rack switches
  • Review options for connecting transport hosts to the switch fabric
  • Describe typical designs for VMware ESXi™ compute hypervisors with two pNICs
  • Describe typical designs for ESXi compute hypervisors with four or more pNICs
  • Describe a typical design for a KVM compute hypervisor with two pNICs
  • Differentiate dedicated and collapsed cluster approaches to SDDC design


10 NSX Multilocation Design

  • Explain scale considerations in an NSX-T Data Center multisite design
  • Describe the main components of the NSX Federation architecture
  • Describe the stretched networking capability in Federation
  • Describe stretched security use cases in Federation
  • Compare Federation disaster recovery designs


11 NSX Optimization

  • Describe Geneve Offload
  • Describe the benefits of Receive Side Scaling and Geneve Rx Filters
  • Explain the benefits of SSL Offload
  • Describe the effect of Multi-TEP, MTU size, and NIC speed on throughput
  • Explain the available N-VDS enhanced datapath modes and use cases
  • List the key performance factors for compute nodes and NSX Edge nodes

Price (ex. VAT)

€ 4.817,00 per person

Duration

5 days

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Delivery methods

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