VMware NSX-T Data Center: Design [V3.0]

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 the NSX-T Data Center 3.0 release, including design principles, processes, and frameworks. The student gains a deeper understanding of NSX-T Data Center architecture and how it can be leveraged to create solutions to address the customer's business needs.

Product Alignment

• NSX-T Data Center 3.0

Before taking this course, you should have completed the following course:

• VMware NSX-T Data Center: Install, Configure, Manage [V3.0]

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, including:
• Switching and routing technologies (L2-L3)
• Network and application delivery services (L4-L7)
• Knowledge and working experience of VMware vSphere® environments and KVM-based environments

The VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization (2020) certification is recommended.

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• Understand and apply a design framework
• Apply a design process for gathering requirements, constraints, assumptions, and risks
• Analyze existing physical networking and security components, processes, and operations
• Design a VMware vSphere virtual data center to support NSX-T Data Center requirements
• Design a physical network to support network virtualization in a software-defined data center
• Design logical network services
• Design logical security services
• Design a data center rack solution to support scalability and high availability
• Analyze the operational readiness of an organization and perform a skills gap analysis
• Analyze alternative design choices for risk mitigation
• Understand the design and support for NSX-T Data Center infrastructure in a multi data center infrastructure

Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

Basic Design Concepts

• Process and principles of design
• Describe the design process and frameworks
• Explain VVD and its importance

NSX-T Data Center Architecture and Components

• Explain the NSX-T Data Center and Virtual Cloud Network
• Describe the NSX-T Data Center architecture and use cases
• List the NSX-T Management cluster design considerations

NSX-T Data Center Design Considerations

• Explain physical infrastructure design considerations
• Explain virtual infrastructure design considerations
• List the collapsed management and VMware NSX® Edge™ resources design considerations
• Explain dedicated management and NSX Edge resources design

Logical Switching Design

• Explain the VMware NSX-T™ logical switching design concepts
• Describe the traffic flooding concepts

NSX-T Data Center Edge Design

• List the NSX Edge VM design considerations
• Explain NSX Edge BareMetal design considerations
• Describe NSX Edge cluster design
• Explain Bridge design considerations

Logical Routing Design

• Explain logical router components
• Describe multitier routing
• Explain IPv6 addressing and routing design concepts
• Multi-compute workload domain design considerations
• High availability and router placement

NSX-T Data Center Network Services

• Explain the functionality of NAT, Proxy ARP, DHCP, and metadata proxy and design considerations
• Describe the load balancer considerations
• Explain the VPN design considerations

NSX-T Data Center Security Design

• Explain the distributed firewall design concepts
• Explain the Gateway firewall design concepts
• Describe the security policy methodology

NSX-T Data Center Federation Design

• Explain the Federation functionality
• Explain the design concepts for Federation components
• Describe the design involved for Federation networking
• Describe the design involved for Federation security

NSX-T Data Center and Containers

• Understand VMware Tanzu™
• Understand NSX-T Data Center for Kubernetes
• Understand IPv6 for Kubernetes PODs
• Understand NSX-T Data Center design options for VMware Tanzu
• Describe NSX-T Data Center design recommendations for VMware Tanzu