VMware NSX-T Data Center: Multisite Deployments with Federation (en)

Teaching Methodology

The course includes didactic workshops in which each student will be able to work for the purpose of completing formative exercises that will provide hands-on experience in the use of the instrument, for each of the topics covered during the course.

Audience

Network administrators, IT managers, VMware partners, and individuals responsible for implementing and managing the NSX-T Data Center Federation.

Prerequisites:

Before taking this course, you should complete the VMware NSX-T Data Center: Install, Configure, Manage [V3.0] course.

You should also have the following understanding or knowledge:
• Good understanding of TCP/IP services and protocols
• Knowledge and working experience of computer networking, including switching and routing technologies
(L2-L3) and L2-L7 firewall
• Knowledge and working experience of VMware vSphere® environments

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

• Describe the Federation architecture and use cases
• Deploy and configure Global Managers and sites
• Import network components from the Local Manager to a Global Manager
• Describe different topologies and deployment methods
• Describe layer 2 connectivity
• Describe East-West routing
• Describe North-South routing
• Configure security regions, groups, and rules
• Describe various Disaster Recovery scenarios

1 Course Introduction
• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2 Introduction to Federation
• Describe the Federation and its use cases
• Explain the Federation architecture
• Describe the Federation components
• Deploy and register active/standby Global Managers and sites
• Import network components from a Local Manager to the Global Manager

3 Federation Deployment and Topologies
• Explain different supported and non-supported topologies for the Federation
• Describe different deployment methods for the Federation
• Create and configure Remote Tunnel Endpoints (RTEs)

4 Configuring Federation Switching and Routing
• Understand the prerequisites to configure stretched segments, Tier-1, and Tier-0 gateways
• Configure stretched Tier-1 gateways
• Configure stretched segments
• Configure stretched Tier-0 uplinks
• Configure stretched Tier-0 gateways

5 Federation Packet Walks
• Describe layer 2 connectivity and MAC learning
• Describe East-West packet walkthrough
• Describe South-North packet walkthrough

6 Federation Security
• Describe Federation security
• Explain different configuration workflows for Federation security
• Define Federation security components
• Configure security groups, policies, and rules from the Global Manager
• Discuss examples of groups in different spans
• Discuss global rule realization examples

7 High Availability and Disaster Recovery
• Describe high availability leading practices in the Federation
• Describe failure and disaster recovery scenarios for the Federation

Duration: 3 days

Delivery: Classroom, On Site, Remote

PC and SW requirements:

• Internet Connection
• Browser web – Google Chrome
• Zoom

Language

Instructor: English
Workshops: English
Slides: English