VMware NSX-T Data Center: Design V3.2 (NSXTD32)
- Duration: 5 days (40 hours)
- Date: on request
VMware NSX-T Data Center: Design V3.2 (NSXTD32)
This course will help:
- Gain the knowledge and skills needed to master VMware NSX-T environment design techniques as part of a software-defined data center strategy
- Gain hands-on experience in configuring, managing and designing NSX-T Data Center version 3.2
Course syllabus:
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
- Identify design terms
- Describe framework and project methodology
- Describe VMware Validated Design
- Identify customers’ requirements, assumptions, constraints, and risks
- Explain the conceptual design
- Explain the logical design
- Explain the physical design
- Recognize the main elements in the NSX-T Data Center architecture
- Describe the NSX management cluster and the management plane
- Identify the functions and components of management, control, and data planes
- Describe the NSX Manager sizing options
- Recognize the justification and implication of NSX manager cluster design decisions
- Identify the NSX management cluster design options
- Explain the leading practices for edge design
- Describe the NSX Edge VM reference designs
- Describe the bare-metal NSX Edge reference designs
- Explain the leading practices for edge cluster design
- Explain the effect of stateful services placement
- Explain the growth patterns for edge clusters
- Identify design considerations when using L2 bridging services
- Describe concepts and terminology in logical switching
- Identify segment and transport zone design considerations
- Identify virtual switch design considerations
- Identify uplink profile, VMware vSphere Network I/O Control profile, and transport node profile design considerations
- Identify Geneve tunneling design considerations
- Identify BUM replication mode design considerations
- Explain the function and features of logical routing
- Describe NSX-T Data Center single-tier and multitier routing architectures
- Identify guidelines when selecting a routing topology
- Describe the BGP and OSPF routing protocol configuration options
- Explain gateway high availability modes of operation and failure detection mechanisms
- Identify how multitier architectures provide control over stateful service location
- Identify VRF Lite requirements and considerations
- Identify the typical NSX scalable architectures
- Identify different security features available in NSX-T Data Center
- Describe the advantages of an NSX Distributed Firewall
- Describe the use of NSX Gateway Firewall as a perimeter firewall and as an intertenant firewall
- Determine a security policy methodology
- Recognize the NSX-T Data Center security best practices
- 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 benefits of NSX-T Data Center DHCP
- Identify benefits of metadata proxy
- Describe IPSec VPN and L2 VPN
- Identify the components of a switch fabric design
- Assess Layer 2 and Layer 3 switch fabric design implications
- Review guidelines when designing top-of-rack switches
- Review 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 compute hypervisor with two pNICs
- Differentiate dedicated and collapsed cluster approaches to SDDC design
- Explain scale considerations in an NSX-T Data Center multisite design
You will learn:
- Describe and apply a design framework
- Apply a design process for gathering requirements, constraints, assumptions, and risks
- Design a VMware vSphere virtual data center to support NSX-T Data Center requirements
- Create a VMware NSX Manager cluster design
- Create a VMware NSX Edge cluster design to support traffic and service requirements in NSX-T Data Center
- Design logical switching and 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 design to support the NSX-T Data Center infrastructure across multiple sites
- Describe the factors that drive performance in NSX-T Data Center
Pre-requisites:
You should have the understanding or knowledge of these technologies:
- Good understanding of TCP/IP services and protocols
Knowledge and working experience of computer networking and security, including:
- Switching and routing technologies (L2-L3)
- Network and application delivery services (L4-L7)
- Firewalling (L4-L7)
- vSphere environments
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