Course Overview
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 NSX-T Data Center design offered in the NSX-T Data Center 2.4 release, including design principles, processes, and frameworks. The student gains a deeper understanding of NSX-T Data Center architecture and how this can be leveraged to create solutions to address the customer’s business needs.
Product Alignment
- NSX-T Data Center 2.4
Who should attend
- Experienced system administrators or network administrators
Prerequisites
- Good understanding of TCP/IP services
- Working experience with enterprise switching and routing
- Good understanding of network security and working experience with firewalls
It is recommended that you attend the following course:
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- 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 the operational readiness of an organization and perform a skills gap analysis
- Analyze alternative design choices for risk mitigation
- Understand the design and support for NSX-T Data Center infrastructure in a cloud implementation
Course Content
Course Introduction
- Introductions and logistics
- Review course objectives
NSX-T Architecture and Components
- NSX-T Data Center introduction and architecture
- NSX-T Management Cluster
- NSX-T use cases
Basic Design Concepts
- Process and principles of design
- Understand the design process and frameworks
- Understand VVD and its importance
NSX-T Data Center Design Considerations
- Physical infrastructure design
- Virtual infrastructure design
Logical Switching Design
- NSX-T logical switching
- Traffic flooding
NSX-T Edge Design
- Edge VM design
- Edge BareMetal design
- Edge cluster design
Logical Routing Design
- Logical router components
- Multi-tier routing
- Static and dynamic routing
- ECMP
- High availability and router placement
NSX-T Network Services
- NAT, DNS, and DHCP
- Load balancer
- VPN
NSX-T Security Design
- NSX-T security use cases
- NSX-T distributed firewall
- NSX-T gateway firewall
- Security policy methodology
Hosts Cluster and Domain Design
- Compute host cluster design (ESXi/KVM)
- Edge host cluster design
- Multi-Compute workload domain design consideration
- Collapsed management and Edge resources design
- Dedicated management and Edge resources design
- Enterprise ESXi-based design
- Enterprise KVM-based design
NSX-T Multisite and Cloud Introduction Design
- Multisite capabilities
- Deployment for Multisite Lite
- Multisite Lite failover procedure
- Multisite Lite DR requirements
- HCX
- Integration with Cloud Provider
NSX-T and Containers
- NSX-T Design with PKS and PAS introduction
- NSX-T Design with VCF and containers
Design Lab and Project
- Use case design lab and presentation