Description

Duration

5 Days

30 CPD hours

This course is intended for

Network and security architects and consultants who design the enterprise and data center networks and NSX environments

Overview

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
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 requirements
Create a VMware NSX Managerâ¢ cluster design
Create a VMware NSX Edgeâ¢ cluster design to support traffic and service requirements in NSX
Design logical switching and routing
Recognize NSX 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 infrastructure across multiple sites
Describe the factors that drive performance in NSX

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.

Course Introduction

Introduction and course logistics

Course objectives

NSX Design Concepts

Identify design terms

Describe framework and project methodology

Describe the role of VMware Cloud Foundation? in NSX design

Identify customers? requirements, assumptions, constraints, and risks

Explain the conceptual design

Explain the logical design

Explain the physical design

NSX Architecture and Components

Recognize the main elements in the NSX 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

NSX Edge Design

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

NSX Logical Switching Design

Describe concepts and terminology in logical switching

Identify segment and transport zone design considerations

Identify virtual switch design considerations

Identify uplink profile and transport node profile design considerations

Identify Geneve tunneling design considerations

Identify BUM replication mode design considerations

NSX Logical Routing Design

Explain the function and features of logical routing

Describe the NSX 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 EVPN requirements and design considerations

Identify VRF Lite requirements and considerations

Identify the typical NSX scalable architectures

NSX Security Design

Identify different security features available in NSX

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 security best practices

NSX Network Services

Identify the stateful services available in different edge cluster high availability modes

Describe failover detection mechanisms

Compare NSX NAT solutions

Explain how to select DHCP and DNS services

Compare policy-based and route-based IPSec VPN

Describe an L2 VPN topology that can be used to interconnect data centers

Physical Infrastructure Design

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

Differentiate dedicated and collapsed cluster approaches to SDDC design

NSX Multilocation Design

Explain scale considerations in an NSX multisite design

Describe the main components of the NSX Federation architecture

Describe the stretched networking capability in Federation

Describe stretched security use cases in Federation

Compare the Federation disaster recovery designs

NSX Optimization and DPU-Based Acceleration

Describe Geneve Offload

Describe the benefits of Receive Side Scaling and Geneve Rx Filters

Explain the benefits of SSL Offload

Describe the effect of Multi-TEP, MTU size, and NIC speed on throughput

Explain the available enhanced datapath modes and use cases

List the key performance factors for compute nodes and NSX Edge nodes

Describe DPU-Based Acceleration

Define the NSX features supported by DPUs

Describe the hardware and networking configurations supported with DPUs

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