VMware NSX-T Data Center: Design [v4.0]
This five-day course provides comprehensive training on the considerations and practices for designing a VMware NSX-T™ Data Center environment as part of a software-defined data center strategy. This course prepares the student with the skills needed to lead the NSX-T Data Center design offered in the NSX-T Data Center 3.0 release, including design principles, processes, and frameworks. The student gains a deeper understanding of the NSX-T Data Center architecture and how it can be leveraged to create solutions that address customers’ business needs.
COD: NSXTD4
CATEGORY: VMware
Teaching methodology
The course includes educational laboratories in which each student will be able to work in order to complete training exercises that will provide practical experience in using the instrument, for each of the topics covered during the course.
Who should participate
Network and security architects and consultants who design enterprise and data center networks and NSX environments
Prerequisites
Before participating in this course, you must have completed the following course:
VMware NSX-T Data Center: Install, Configure, Manage [V3.0].
You must also have understanding or knowledge of these technologies:
- Good understanding of TCP/IP services and protocols.
Knowledge and work experience of computer networks, including:
- Switching and routing technologies (L2-L3)
- Application Delivery and Networking Services (L4-L7)
- Knowledge and experience working with VMware vSphere environments and KVM based environments.
VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization (2020) certification is recommended.
Outgoing knowledge/skills
By the end of the course, you should be able to achieve the following objectives:
- Understand and apply a design framework
- Apply a design process to gather requirements, constraints, assumptions and risks.
- Analyze existing physical and security network 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 of logical network services
- Design of security logic 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 of NSX-T Data Center infrastructure in a multi data center infrastructure.
Educational program
1 Introduction to the course
- Introduction and logistics of the course
- Objectives of the course
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 design considerations for the NSX-T management cluster
4 NSX-T Data Center Design Considerations
- Explain physical infrastructure design considerations
- Explain virtual infrastructure design considerations
- List VMware NSX® Edge™ resource design and collapsed management considerations.
- Explain the design of dedicated NSX Edge and management resources
5 Logic switch design
- Explain VMware NSX-T™ logic switching design concepts.
- Describe the concepts of traffic flooding
6 Designing the NSX-T Data Center Edge
- List design considerations for NSX Edge VMs
- Explain the design considerations for NSX Edge BareMetal
- Describe NSX Edge cluster design
- Explain bridge design considerations
7 Logical routing design
- Explain the components of logical routers
- Describe multi-tier routing
- Explain the design concepts of IPv6 addressing and routing
- Design considerations for multi-computer workload domains
8 Advanced NSX-T Data Center Routing Design
- Explain high availability and router placement
- L3 multicast design considerations
- Describe VRF Lite and EVPN
9 Designing the NSX-T Data Center Network
- Explain the features and considerations for using NAT, Proxy ARP, DHCP, and proxy metadata.
- Describe load balancer design considerations
- Explain VPN design considerations
10 NSX-T Data Center Security Design
- Explain distributed firewall design concepts
- Explain identity firewall design concepts
- Explain gateway firewall design concepts
- Describe the security policy methodology
11 Designing NSX-T Data Center Federation
- Explain the functionality of federation
- Explain federation component design concepts
- Describe federation network design
- Review federation design considerations
12 Centro dati NSX-T e container
- 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 Sphere for VMware Tanzu
- Describe the VMware Tanzu™ Kubernetes Grid service
- Understand the networking and load balancing features of the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid™ cluster.
Duration – 5 days
Delivery – in Classroom, On Site, Remote
PC and SW requirements:
- Internet connection
- Web browser, Google Chrome
- Zoom
Language
Instructor: English
Labs: English
Slides: English
