VMware NSX-T Data Center: Design [v3.2]
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 design of the NSX-T Data Center offered in the 3.2 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 used to create solutions that address customers’ business needs.
COD: NSXTD32
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 VMware NSX® environments.
Prerequisites
Before participating in this course, you must have completed the following course:
- VMware NSX-T Data Center: Install, Configure, Manage [V3.2].
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 network services (L4-L7)
- Firewalling (L4-L7)
- vSphere environment
VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization certification is recommended.
Outgoing knowledge/skills
By the end of the course, you should be able to achieve the following objectives:
- Describe and apply a framework for design
- Apply a design process to gather requirements, constraints, assumptions and risks.
- Design a VMware vSphere® virtual data center to support NSX-T data center requirements.
- Creare un cluster VMware NSX® Manager™.
- Create a VMware NSX® Edge™ cluster project to support the traffic and service requirements of the NSX-T Data Center.
- Design switching and logical 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 project to support NSX-T data center infrastructure across multiple sites.
- Describe the factors that determine the performance of the NSX-T Data Center.
Educational program
1 Introduction to the course
- Introduction and logistics of the course
- Objectives of the course
2 Design Concepts
- Identify design terms
- Describe the project framework and methodology
- Describe the VMware Validated Design™.
- Identify customer requirements, assumptions, constraints and risks.
- Explain conceptual design
- Explain logical design
- Explain the physical design
3 NSX Architecture and Components
- Recognize the main elements of the NSX-T data center architecture.
- Describe the NSX management cluster and management plan.
- Identify the functions and components of management, control and data plans.
- Describe NSX Manager scaling options
- Recognize the justification and implications of NSX management cluster design decisions
- Identify NSX management cluster design options.
4 Designing NSX Edge
- Explain the main practices for edge design
- Describe the NSX Edge virtual machine reference designs
- Describe the NSX Edge bare-metal reference designs
- Explain key practices for designing edge clusters
- Explain the effect of placing stateful services
- Explain growth models for edge clusters
- Identify design considerations when using L2 bridging services.
5 Designing NSX Logical Switches
Describe the concepts and terminology of logic switching.
Identify design considerations for transport segments and zones
Identify design considerations for vswitches
Identify the uplink profile, VMware vSphere® Network I/O Control profile, and transport node profile.
Identify Geneve tunneling design considerations
Design considerations for BUM replication mode
6 NSX Logical Routing Design
- Explain the function and characteristics of logical routing.
- Describe NSX-T Data Center single-tier and multi-tier routing architectures.
- Identify guidelines for selecting a routing topology.
- Describe BGP and OSPF routing protocol configuration options.
- Explain how gateways operate with high availability and fault detection mechanisms.
- Identify how multi-tier architectures provide control over the localization of stateful services
- Identify VRF Lite requirements and considerations
- Identify typical NSX scalable architectures.
7 NSX Security Design
- Identify the different security features available in the NSX-T Data Center
- Describe the benefits of an NSX distributed firewall
- Describe the use of NSX Gateway Firewall as a perimeter firewall and as an intertenant firewall.
- Determine a methodology for security policies
- Recognize 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 the benefits of NSX-T Data Center DHCP
- Identify the benefits of proxy metadata
- Describe IPSec VPN and L2 VPN
9 Physical infrastructure design
- Identify the components of a switch fabric design
- Evaluate the design implications of Layer 2 and Layer 3 switch fabrics.
- Review top-of-rack switch design guidelines.
- Examine the 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 computational hypervisor with two pNICs
- Distinguish dedicated and collapsed cluster approaches for SDDC design.
10 Designing NSX Multilocation
- Explain scaling considerations in a multi-site NSX-T data center design
- Describe the main components of the NSX Federation architecture
- Describe the stretched networking feature in Federation
- Describe the use cases for extended security in Federation
- Compare Federation disaster recovery projects
11 Optimizing NSX
- Describe Geneve Offload
- Describe the benefits of Receive Side Scaling and Geneve Rx Filters
- Explain the benefits of SSL offloading
- 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
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
