This five-day course provides comprehensive training on considerations and practices to design a VMware NSX® 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.

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Learning Objectives

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
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

1

  • COURSE INTRODUCTION

  • Introduction and course logistics

    Course objectives

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

  • 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

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

    Recognize 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 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

Audience

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

Language

English

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, you must complete the following course: VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage [V4.0] You should also have 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 and L3) Network and application delivery services (L4 through L7) Firewalling (L4 through L7) vSphere environments The VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization certification is recommended.

$4,625

Length: 5.0 days (40 hours)

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