VMware NSX-T Data Center: Design [3.0]
VMware NSX-T Data Center: Design [3.0] Course Details:
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.
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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
*Please Note: Course Outline is subject to change without notice. Exact course outline will be provided at time of registration.
- 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
Network and security architects and consultants who design the enterprise and data center networks and NSX environments.