vSphere environments<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>The VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization certification is recommended.<\/p>","audience":"
Network and security architects and consultants who design the enterprise and data center networks and NSX environments<\/p>","contents":"
Course Introduction<\/h5>\n- Introduction and course logistics<\/li>
- Course objectives<\/li><\/ul>
NSX Design Concepts<\/h5>\n- Identify design terms<\/li>
- Describe framework and project methodology<\/li>
- Describe the role of VMware Cloud Foundation™ in NSX design<\/li>
- Identify customers’ requirements, assumptions, constraints, and risks<\/li>
- Explain the conceptual design<\/li>
- Explain the logical design<\/li>
- Explain the physical design<\/li><\/ul>
NSX Architecture and Components<\/h5>\n- Recognize the main elements in the NSX architecture<\/li>
- Describe the NSX management cluster and the management plane<\/li>
- Identify the functions and components of management, control, and data planes<\/li>
- Describe the NSX Manager sizing options<\/li>
- Recognize the justification and implication of NSX Manager cluster design decisions<\/li>
- Identify the NSX management cluster design options<\/li><\/ul>
NSX Edge Design<\/h5>\n- Explain the leading practices for edge design<\/li>
- Describe the NSX Edge VM reference designs<\/li>
- Describe the bare-metal NSX Edge reference designs<\/li>
- Explain the leading practices for edge cluster design<\/li>
- Explain the effect of stateful services placement<\/li>
- Explain the growth patterns for edge clusters<\/li>
- Identify design considerations when using L2 bridging services<\/li><\/ul>
NSX Logical Switching Design<\/h5>\n- Describe concepts and terminology in logical switching<\/li>
- Identify segment and transport zone design considerations<\/li>
- Identify virtual switch design considerations<\/li>
- Identify uplink profile and transport node profile design considerations<\/li>
- Identify Geneve tunneling design considerations<\/li>
- Identify BUM replication mode design considerations<\/li><\/ul>
NSX Logical Routing Design<\/h5>\n- Explain the function and features of logical routing<\/li>
- Describe the NSX single-tier and multitier routing architectures<\/li>
- Identify guidelines when selecting a routing topology<\/li>
- Describe the BGP and OSPF routing protocol configuration options<\/li>
- Explain gateway high availability modes of operation and failure detection mechanisms<\/li>
- Identify how multitier architectures provide control over stateful service location<\/li>
- Identify EVPN requirements and design considerations<\/li>
- Identify VRF Lite requirements and considerations<\/li>
- Identify the typical NSX scalable architectures<\/li><\/ul>
NSX Security Design<\/h5>\n- Identify different security features available in NSX<\/li>
- Describe the advantages of an NSX Distributed Firewall<\/li>
- Describe the use of NSX Gateway Firewall as a perimeter firewall and as an intertenant firewall<\/li>
- Determine a security policy methodology<\/li>
- Recognize the NSX security best practices<\/li><\/ul>
NSX Network Services<\/h5>\n- Identify the stateful services available in different edge cluster high availability modes<\/li>
- Describe failover detection mechanisms<\/li>
- Compare NSX NAT solutions<\/li>
- Explain how to select DHCP and DNS services<\/li>
- Compare policy-based and route-based IPSec VPN<\/li>
- Describe an L2 VPN topology that can be used to interconnect data centers<\/li>
- Explain the design considerations for integrating VMware NSX® Advanced Load Balancer™ with NSX<\/li><\/ul>
Physical Infrastructure Design<\/h5>\n- Identify the components of a switch fabric design<\/li>
- Assess Layer 2 and Layer 3 switch fabric design implications<\/li>
- Review guidelines when designing top-of-rack switches<\/li>
- Review options for connecting transport hosts to the switch fabric<\/li>
- Describe typical designs for VMware ESXi™ compute hypervisors with two pNICs<\/li>
- Describe typical designs for ESXi compute hypervisors with four or more pNICs<\/li>
- Differentiate dedicated and collapsed cluster approaches to SDDC design<\/li><\/ul>
NSX Multilocation Design<\/h5>\n- Explain scale considerations in an NSX multisite design<\/li>
- Describe the main components of the NSX Federation architecture<\/li>
- Describe the stretched networking capability in Federation<\/li>
- Describe stretched security use cases in Federation<\/li>
- Compare the Federation disaster recovery designs<\/li><\/ul>
NSX Optimization and DPU-Based Acceleration<\/h5>\n- Describe Geneve Offload<\/li>
- Describe the benefits of Receive Side Scaling and Geneve Rx Filters<\/li>
- Explain the benefits of SSL Offload<\/li>
- Describe the effect of Multi-TEP, MTU size, and NIC speed on throughput<\/li>
- Explain the available enhanced datapath modes and use cases<\/li>
- List the key performance factors for compute nodes and NSX Edge nodes<\/li>
- Describe DPU-Based Acceleration<\/li>
- Define the NSX features supported by DPUs<\/li>
- Describe the hardware and networking configurations supported with DPUs<\/li><\/ul>","summary":"
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.<\/p>\n
Product Alignment<\/p>\n
\n- VMware NSX 4.1.0<\/li><\/ul>","objective_plain":"By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:\n\n\n- Describe and apply a design framework\n- Apply a design process for gathering requirements, constraints, assumptions, and risks\n- Design a VMware vSphere\u00ae virtual data center to support NSX requirements\n- Create a VMware NSX\u00ae Manager\u2122 cluster design\n- Create a VMware NSX\u00ae Edge\u2122 cluster design to support traffic and service requirements in NSX\n- Design logical switching and routing\n- Recognize NSX security best practices\n- Design logical network services\n- Design a physical network to support network virtualization in a software-defined data center\n- Create a design to support the NSX infrastructure across multiple sites\n- Describe the factors that drive performance in NSX","essentials_plain":"Before taking this course, you must complete the following course:\n\n\n- VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage [V4.0] (NSXICM4)\nYou should also have understanding or knowledge of these technologies:\n\n\n- Good understanding of TCP\/IP services and protocols\n- Knowledge and working experience of computer networking and security, including:\n\n- Switching and routing technologies (L2 and L3)\n- Network and application delivery services (L4 through L7)\n- Firewalling (L4 through L7)\n- vSphere environments\nThe VMware Certified Professional \u2013 Network Virtualization certification is recommended.","audience_plain":"Network and security architects and consultants who design the enterprise and data center networks and NSX environments","contents_plain":"Course Introduction\n\n\n- Introduction and course logistics\n- Course objectives\nNSX Design Concepts\n\n\n- Identify design terms\n- Describe framework and project methodology\n- Describe the role of VMware Cloud Foundation\u2122 in NSX design\n- Identify customers\u2019 requirements, assumptions, constraints, and risks\n- Explain the conceptual design\n- Explain the logical design\n- Explain the physical design\nNSX Architecture and Components\n\n\n- Recognize the main elements in the NSX architecture\n- Describe the NSX management cluster and the management plane\n- Identify the functions and components of management, control, and data planes\n- Describe the NSX Manager sizing options\n- Recognize the justification and implication of NSX Manager cluster design decisions\n- Identify the NSX management cluster design options\nNSX Edge Design\n\n\n- Explain the leading practices for edge design\n- Describe the NSX Edge VM reference designs\n- Describe the bare-metal NSX Edge reference designs\n- Explain the leading practices for edge cluster design\n- Explain the effect of stateful services placement\n- Explain the growth patterns for edge clusters\n- Identify design considerations when using L2 bridging services\nNSX Logical Switching Design\n\n\n- Describe concepts and terminology in logical switching\n- Identify segment and transport zone design considerations\n- Identify virtual switch design considerations\n- Identify uplink profile and transport node profile design considerations\n- Identify Geneve tunneling design considerations\n- Identify BUM replication mode design considerations\nNSX Logical Routing Design\n\n\n- Explain the function and features of logical routing\n- Describe the NSX single-tier and multitier routing architectures\n- Identify guidelines when selecting a routing topology\n- Describe the BGP and OSPF routing protocol configuration options\n- Explain gateway high availability modes of operation and failure detection mechanisms\n- Identify how multitier architectures provide control over stateful service location\n- Identify EVPN requirements and design considerations\n- Identify VRF Lite requirements and considerations\n- Identify the typical NSX scalable architectures\nNSX Security Design\n\n\n- Identify different security features available in NSX\n- Describe the advantages of an NSX Distributed Firewall\n- Describe the use of NSX Gateway Firewall as a perimeter firewall and as an intertenant firewall\n- Determine a security policy methodology\n- Recognize the NSX security best practices\nNSX Network Services\n\n\n- Identify the stateful services available in different edge cluster high availability modes\n- Describe failover detection mechanisms\n- Compare NSX NAT solutions\n- Explain how to select DHCP and DNS services\n- Compare policy-based and route-based IPSec VPN\n- Describe an L2 VPN topology that can be used to interconnect data centers\n- Explain the design considerations for integrating VMware NSX\u00ae Advanced Load Balancer\u2122 with NSX\nPhysical Infrastructure Design\n\n\n- Identify the components of a switch fabric design\n- Assess Layer 2 and Layer 3 switch fabric design implications\n- Review guidelines when designing top-of-rack switches\n- Review options for connecting transport hosts to the switch fabric\n- Describe typical designs for VMware ESXi\u2122 compute hypervisors with two pNICs\n- Describe typical designs for ESXi compute hypervisors with four or more pNICs\n- Differentiate dedicated and collapsed cluster approaches to SDDC design\nNSX Multilocation Design\n\n\n- Explain scale considerations in an NSX multisite design\n- Describe the main components of the NSX Federation architecture\n- Describe the stretched networking capability in Federation\n- Describe stretched security use cases in Federation\n- Compare the Federation disaster recovery designs\nNSX Optimization and DPU-Based Acceleration\n\n\n- Describe Geneve Offload\n- Describe the benefits of Receive Side Scaling and Geneve Rx Filters\n- Explain the benefits of SSL Offload\n- Describe the effect of Multi-TEP, MTU size, and NIC speed on throughput\n- Explain the available enhanced datapath modes and use cases\n- List the key performance factors for compute nodes and NSX Edge nodes\n- Describe DPU-Based Acceleration\n- Define the NSX features supported by DPUs\n- Describe the hardware and networking configurations supported with DPUs","summary_plain":"This five-day course provides comprehensive training on considerations and practices to design a VMware NSX\u00ae 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\u2019s business needs.\n\nProduct Alignment\n\n\n- VMware NSX 4.1.0","skill_level":"Expert","version":"4.x","duration":{"unit":"d","value":5,"formatted":"5 jours"},"pricelist":{"List Price":{"AT":{"country":"AT","currency":"EUR","taxrate":20,"price":3750},"SE":{"country":"SE","currency":"EUR","taxrate":25,"price":3750},"DE":{"country":"DE","currency":"EUR","taxrate":19,"price":3980},"IT":{"country":"IT","currency":"EUR","taxrate":20,"price":2950},"GB":{"country":"GB","currency":"GBP","taxrate":20,"price":3520},"PL":{"country":"PL","currency":"EUR","taxrate":23,"price":2060},"SI":{"country":"SI","currency":"EUR","taxrate":20,"price":2750},"NL":{"country":"NL","currency":"EUR","taxrate":21,"price":3980},"CH":{"country":"CH","currency":"CHF","taxrate":8.1,"price":3980}}},"lastchanged":"2026-03-19T09:08:28+01:00","parenturl":"https:\/\/portal.flane.ch\/swisscom\/fr\/json-courses","nexturl_course_schedule":"https:\/\/portal.flane.ch\/swisscom\/fr\/json-course-schedule\/32600","source_lang":"fr","source":"https:\/\/portal.flane.ch\/swisscom\/fr\/json-course\/vmware-nsxtd4"}}