<div id="course-pills-1">Duration<p>5 Days</p><p>30 CPD hours</p>This course is intended for<p>Network and security architects and consultants who design the enterprise and data center networks and VMware NSX environments</p>Overview<p>By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:<br />Describe and apply a design framework<br />Apply a design process for gathering requirements, constraints, assumptions, and risks<br />Design a VMware vSphere virtual data center to support NSX-T Data Center requirements<br />Create a VMware NSX Managerâ¢ cluster design<br />Create a VMware NSX Edgeâ¢ cluster design to support traffic and service requirements in NSX-T Data Center<br />Design logical switching and routing<br />Recognize NSX-T Data Center security best practices<br />Design logical network services<br />Design a physical network to support network virtualization in a software-defined data center<br />Create a design to support the NSX-T Data Center infrastructure across multiple sites<br />Describe the factors that drive performance in NSX-T Data Center</p><p>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 release 3.2, 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 to address the customer?s business needs.</p></div><div id="course-pills-2"><h4>Course Introduction</h4><ul><li>Introduction and course logistics</li><li>Course objectives</li></ul><h4>Design Concepts</h4><ul><li>Identify design terms</li><li>Describe framework and project methodology</li><li>Describe VMware Validated Design?</li><li>Identify customers? requirements, assumptions, constraints, and risks</li><li>Explain the conceptual design</li><li>Explain the logical design</li><li>Explain the physical design</li></ul><h4>NSX Architecture and Components</h4><ul><li>Recognize the main elements in the NSX-T Data Center architecture</li><li>Describe the NSX management cluster and the management plane</li><li>Identify the functions and components of management, control, and data planes</li><li>Describe the NSX Manager sizing options</li><li>Recognize the justification and implication of NSX manager cluster design decisions</li><li>Identify the NSX management cluster design options</li></ul><h4>NSX Edge Design</h4><ul><li>Explain the leading practices for edge design</li><li>Describe the NSX Edge VM reference designs</li><li>Describe the bare-metal NSX Edge reference designs</li><li>Explain the leading practices for edge cluster design</li><li>Explain the effect of stateful services placement</li><li>Explain the growth patterns for edge clusters</li><li>Identify design considerations when using L2 bridging services</li></ul><h4>NSX Logical Switching Design</h4><ul><li>Describe concepts and terminology in logical switching</li><li>Identify segment and transport zone design considerations</li><li>Identify virtual switch design considerations</li><li>Identify uplink profile, VMware vSphereÂ© Network I/O Control profile, and transport node profile design considerations</li><li>Identify Geneve tunneling design considerations</li><li>Identify BUM replication mode design considerations</li></ul><h4>NSX Logical Routing Design</h4><ul><li>Explain the function and features of logical routing</li><li>Describe NSX-T Data Center single-tier and multitier routing architectures</li><li>Identify guidelines when selecting a routing topology</li><li>Describe the BGP and OSPF routing protocol configuration options</li><li>Explain gateway high availability modes of operation and failure detection mechanisms</li><li>Identify how multitier architectures provide control over stateful service location</li><li>Identify VRF Lite requirements and considerations</li><li>Identify the typical NSX scalable architectures</li></ul><h4>NSX Security Design</h4><ul><li>Identify different security features available in NSX-T Data Center</li><li>Describe the advantages of an NSX Distributed Firewall</li><li>Describe the use of NSX Gateway Firewall as a perimeter firewall and as an intertenant firewall</li><li>Determine a security policy methodology</li><li>Recognize the NSX-T Data Center security best practices</li></ul><h4>NSX Network Services</h4><ul><li>Identify the stateful services available in different edge cluster high availability modes</li><li>Describe failover detection mechanisms</li><li>Explain the design considerations for integrating VMware NSXÂ© Advanced Load Balancer? with NSX-T Data Center</li><li>Describe stateful and stateless NSX-T Data Center NAT</li><li>Identify benefits of NSX-T Data Center DHCP</li><li>Identify benefits of metadata proxy</li><li>Describe IPSec VPN and L2 VPN</li></ul><h4>Physical Infrastructure Design</h4><ul><li>Identify the components of a switch fabric design</li><li>Assess Layer 2 and Layer 3 switch fabric design implications</li><li>Review guidelines when designing top-of-rack switches</li><li>Review options for connecting transport hosts to the switch fabric</li><li>Describe typical designs for VMware ESXi? compute hypervisors with two pNICs</li><li>Describe typical designs for ESXi compute hypervisors with four or more pNICs</li><li>Describe a typical design for a KVM compute hypervisor with two pNICs</li><li>Differentiate dedicated and collapsed cluster approaches to SDDC design</li></ul><h4>NSX Multilocation Design</h4><ul><li>Explain scale considerations in an NSX-T Data Center multisite design</li><li>Describe the main components of the NSX Federation architecture</li><li>Describe the stretched networking capability in Federation</li><li>Describe stretched security use cases in Federation</li><li>Compare Federation disaster recovery designs</li></ul><h4>NSX Optimization</h4><ul><li>Describe Geneve Offload</li><li>Describe the benefits of Receive Side Scaling and Geneve Rx Filters</li><li>Explain the benefits of SSL Offload</li><li>Describe the effect of Multi-TEP, MTU size, and NIC speed on throughput</li><li>Explain the available N-VDS enhanced datapath modes and use cases</li><li>List the key performance factors for compute nodes and NSX Edge nodes</li></ul></div>

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<div id="course-pills-1">Duration<p>5 Days</p><p>30 CPD hours</p>This course is intended for<p>Network and security architects and consultants who design the enterprise and data center networks and NSX environments</p>Overview<p>By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:<br />Describe and apply a design framework<br />Apply a design process for gathering requirements, constraints, assumptions, and risks<br />Design a VMware vSphere virtual data center to support NSX requirements<br />Create a VMware NSX Managerâ¢ cluster design<br />Create a VMware NSX Edgeâ¢ cluster design to support traffic and service requirements in NSX<br />Design logical switching and routing<br />Recognize NSX security best practices<br />Design logical network services<br />Design a physical network to support network virtualization in a software-defined data center<br />Create a design to support the NSX infrastructure across multiple sites<br />Describe the factors that drive performance in NSX</p><p>This five-day course provides comprehensive training on considerations and practices to design a VMware NSXÂ© environment as part of a software-defined data center strategy. This course prepares the student with the skills to lead the design of an NSX environment, including design principles, processes, and frameworks. The student gains a deeper understanding of the NSX architecture and how it can be used to create solutions to address the customer?s business needs.</p></div><div id="course-pills-2"><h4>Course Introduction</h4><ul><li>Introduction and course logistics</li><li>Course objectives</li></ul><h4>NSX Design Concepts</h4><ul><li>Identify design terms</li><li>Describe framework and project methodology</li><li>Describe the role of VMware Cloud Foundation? in NSX design</li><li>Identify customers? requirements, assumptions, constraints, and risks</li><li>Explain the conceptual design</li><li>Explain the logical design</li><li>Explain the physical design</li></ul><h4>NSX Architecture and Components</h4><ul><li>Recognize the main elements in the NSX architecture</li><li>Describe the NSX management cluster and the management plane</li><li>Identify the functions and components of management, control, and data planes</li><li>Describe the NSX Manager sizing options</li><li>Recognize the justification and implication of NSX Manager cluster design decisions</li><li>Identify the NSX management cluster design options</li></ul><h4>NSX Edge Design</h4><ul><li>Explain the leading practices for edge design</li><li>Describe the NSX Edge VM reference designs</li><li>Describe the bare-metal NSX Edge reference designs</li><li>Explain the leading practices for edge cluster design</li><li>Explain the effect of stateful services placement</li><li>Explain the growth patterns for edge clusters</li><li>Identify design considerations when using L2 bridging services</li></ul><h4>NSX Logical Switching Design</h4><ul><li>Describe concepts and terminology in logical switching</li><li>Identify segment and transport zone design considerations</li><li>Identify virtual switch design considerations</li><li>Identify uplink profile and transport node profile design considerations</li><li>Identify Geneve tunneling design considerations</li><li>Identify BUM replication mode design considerations</li></ul><h4>NSX Logical Routing Design</h4><ul><li>Explain the function and features of logical routing</li><li>Describe the NSX single-tier and multitier routing architectures</li><li>Identify guidelines when selecting a routing topology</li><li>Describe the BGP and OSPF routing protocol configuration options</li><li>Explain gateway high availability modes of operation and failure detection mechanisms</li><li>Identify how multitier architectures provide control over stateful service location</li><li>Identify EVPN requirements and design considerations</li><li>Identify VRF Lite requirements and considerations</li><li>Identify the typical NSX scalable architectures</li></ul><h4>NSX Security Design</h4><ul><li>Identify different security features available in NSX</li><li>Describe the advantages of an NSX Distributed Firewall</li><li>Describe the use of NSX Gateway Firewall as a perimeter firewall and as an intertenant firewall</li><li>Determine a security policy methodology</li><li>Recognize the NSX security best practices</li></ul><h4>NSX Network Services</h4><ul><li>Identify the stateful services available in different edge cluster high availability modes</li><li>Describe failover detection mechanisms</li><li>Compare NSX NAT solutions</li><li>Explain how to select DHCP and DNS services</li><li>Compare policy-based and route-based IPSec VPN</li><li>Describe an L2 VPN topology that can be used to interconnect data centers</li><li>Explain the design considerations for integrating VMware NSXÂ© Advanced Load Balancer? with NSX</li></ul><h4>Physical Infrastructure Design</h4><ul><li>Identify the components of a switch fabric design</li><li>Assess Layer 2 and Layer 3 switch fabric design implications</li><li>Review guidelines when designing top-of-rack switches</li><li>Review options for connecting transport hosts to the switch fabric</li><li>Describe typical designs for VMware ESXi? compute hypervisors with two pNICs</li><li>Describe typical designs for ESXi compute hypervisors with four or more pNICs</li><li>Differentiate dedicated and collapsed cluster approaches to SDDC design</li></ul><h4>NSX Multilocation Design</h4><ul><li>Explain scale considerations in an NSX multisite design</li><li>Describe the main components of the NSX Federation architecture</li><li>Describe the stretched networking capability in Federation</li><li>Describe stretched security use cases in Federation</li><li>Compare the Federation disaster recovery designs</li></ul><h4>NSX Optimization and DPU-Based Acceleration</h4><ul><li>Describe Geneve Offload</li><li>Describe the benefits of Receive Side Scaling and Geneve Rx Filters</li><li>Explain the benefits of SSL Offload</li><li>Describe the effect of Multi-TEP, MTU size, and NIC speed on throughput</li><li>Explain the available enhanced datapath modes and use cases</li><li>List the key performance factors for compute nodes and NSX Edge nodes</li><li>Describe DPU-Based Acceleration</li><li>Define the NSX features supported by DPUs</li><li>Describe the hardware and networking configurations supported with DPUs</li></ul></div>

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