What you’ll learn
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® Manager™ cluster design
Create a VMware NSX® Edge™ cluster design to support traffic and service requirements in NSX
Design logical switching and routing
Recognise NSX security best practices
Design logical network services
Design a physical network to support network virtualisation 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
VMware at Lumify Work
VMware is the world leader in server virtualisation technologies. Lumify Work is the largest VCF Education Delivery Partner in Australia and New Zealand, offering training in vSphere, Aria Suite, vRealize, vSAN, NSX, and VMware Cloud Foundation courses.
Who is the course for?
Network and security architects and consultants who design the enterprise and data center networks and NSX environments.
Course subjects
1. Course Introduction
2. 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
3. NSX Architecture and Components
Recognise 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
Recognise the justification and implication of NSX Manager cluster design decisions
Identify the NSX management cluster design options
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
Recognise the NSX security best practices
8. 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
Explain the design considerations for integrating VMware NSX® Advanced Load Balancer™ with NSX
9. 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
10. 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
11. NSX Optimisation 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
Prerequisites
Before taking this course, you should have completed the following course:
You should also 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:
The VMware Certified Professional - Network Virtualisation certification is recommended.
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