VMware NSX: Design [V4.x]NSXTD4VMVMwareVM-NSXTD44.x<p>By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:</p>
<ul>
<li>Describe and apply a design framework</li><li>Apply a design process for gathering requirements, constraints, assumptions, and risks</li><li>Design a VMware vSphere® virtual data center to support NSX requirements</li><li>Create a VMware NSX® Manager™ cluster design</li><li>Create a VMware NSX® Edge™ cluster design to support traffic and service requirements in NSX</li><li>Design logical switching and routing</li><li>Recognize NSX security best practices</li><li>Design logical network services</li><li>Design a physical network to support network virtualization in a software-defined data center</li><li>Create a design to support the NSX infrastructure across multiple sites</li><li>Describe the factors that drive performance in NSX</li></ul><p>Before taking this course, you must complete the following course:</p>
<ul>
<li><span class="cms-link-marked"><a class="fl-href-prod" href="/swisscom/fr/course/vmware-nsxicm4"><svg role="img" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false" data-nosnippet class="cms-linkmark"><use xlink:href="/css/img/icnset-linkmarks.svg#linkmark"></use></svg>VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage [V4.0] <span class="fl-prod-pcode">(NSXICM4)</span></a></span></li></ul><p>You should also have understanding or knowledge of these technologies:</p>
<ul>
<li>Good understanding of TCP/IP services and protocols</li><li>Knowledge and working experience of computer networking and security, including:
<ul>
<li>Switching and routing technologies (L2 and L3)</li><li>Network and application delivery services (L4 through L7)</li><li>Firewalling (L4 through L7)</li><li>vSphere environments</li></ul></li></ul><p>The VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization certification is recommended.</p><p>Network and security architects and consultants who design the enterprise and data center networks and NSX environments</p><h5>Course Introduction</h5><ul>
<li>Introduction and course logistics</li><li>Course objectives</li></ul><h5>NSX Design Concepts</h5><ul>
<li>Identify design terms</li><li>Describe framework and project methodology</li><li>Describe the role of VMware Cloud Foundation™ in NSX design</li><li>Identify customers’ requirements, assumptions, constraints, and risks</li><li>Explain the conceptual design</li><li>Explain the logical design</li><li>Explain the physical design</li></ul><h5>NSX Architecture and Components</h5><ul>
<li>Recognize the main elements in the NSX architecture</li><li>Describe the NSX management cluster and the management plane</li><li>Identify the functions and components of management, control, and data planes</li><li>Describe the NSX Manager sizing options</li><li>Recognize the justification and implication of NSX Manager cluster design decisions</li><li>Identify the NSX management cluster design options</li></ul><h5>NSX Edge Design</h5><ul>
<li>Explain the leading practices for edge design</li><li>Describe the NSX Edge VM reference designs</li><li>Describe the bare-metal NSX Edge reference designs</li><li>Explain the leading practices for edge cluster design</li><li>Explain the effect of stateful services placement</li><li>Explain the growth patterns for edge clusters</li><li>Identify design considerations when using L2 bridging services</li></ul><h5>NSX Logical Switching Design</h5><ul>
<li>Describe concepts and terminology in logical switching</li><li>Identify segment and transport zone design considerations</li><li>Identify virtual switch design considerations</li><li>Identify uplink profile and transport node profile design considerations</li><li>Identify Geneve tunneling design considerations</li><li>Identify BUM replication mode design considerations</li></ul><h5>NSX Logical Routing Design</h5><ul>
<li>Explain the function and features of logical routing</li><li>Describe the NSX single-tier and multitier routing architectures</li><li>Identify guidelines when selecting a routing topology</li><li>Describe the BGP and OSPF routing protocol configuration options</li><li>Explain gateway high availability modes of operation and failure detection mechanisms</li><li>Identify how multitier architectures provide control over stateful service location</li><li>Identify EVPN requirements and design considerations</li><li>Identify VRF Lite requirements and considerations</li><li>Identify the typical NSX scalable architectures</li></ul><h5>NSX Security Design</h5><ul>
<li>Identify different security features available in NSX</li><li>Describe the advantages of an NSX Distributed Firewall</li><li>Describe the use of NSX Gateway Firewall as a perimeter firewall and as an intertenant firewall</li><li>Determine a security policy methodology</li><li>Recognize the NSX security best practices</li></ul><h5>NSX Network Services</h5><ul>
<li>Identify the stateful services available in different edge cluster high availability modes</li><li>Describe failover detection mechanisms</li><li>Compare NSX NAT solutions</li><li>Explain how to select DHCP and DNS services</li><li>Compare policy-based and route-based IPSec VPN</li><li>Describe an L2 VPN topology that can be used to interconnect data centers</li><li>Explain the design considerations for integrating VMware NSX® Advanced Load Balancer™ with NSX</li></ul><h5>Physical Infrastructure Design</h5><ul>
<li>Identify the components of a switch fabric design</li><li>Assess Layer 2 and Layer 3 switch fabric design implications</li><li>Review guidelines when designing top-of-rack switches</li><li>Review options for connecting transport hosts to the switch fabric</li><li>Describe typical designs for VMware ESXi™ compute hypervisors with two pNICs</li><li>Describe typical designs for ESXi compute hypervisors with four or more pNICs</li><li>Differentiate dedicated and collapsed cluster approaches to SDDC design</li></ul><h5>NSX Multilocation Design</h5><ul>
<li>Explain scale considerations in an NSX multisite design</li><li>Describe the main components of the NSX Federation architecture</li><li>Describe the stretched networking capability in Federation</li><li>Describe stretched security use cases in Federation</li><li>Compare the Federation disaster recovery designs</li></ul><h5>NSX Optimization and DPU-Based Acceleration</h5><ul>
<li>Describe Geneve Offload</li><li>Describe the benefits of Receive Side Scaling and Geneve Rx Filters</li><li>Explain the benefits of SSL Offload</li><li>Describe the effect of Multi-TEP, MTU size, and NIC speed on throughput</li><li>Explain the available enhanced datapath modes and use cases</li><li>List the key performance factors for compute nodes and NSX Edge nodes</li><li>Describe DPU-Based Acceleration</li><li>Define the NSX features supported by DPUs</li><li>Describe the hardware and networking configurations supported with DPUs</li></ul>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 NSXBefore taking this course, you must complete the following course:
- VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage [V4.0] (NSXICM4)
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.Network and security architects and consultants who design the enterprise and data center networks and NSX environmentsCourse 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
- Explain the design considerations for integrating VMware NSX® Advanced Load Balancer™ with NSX
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 DPUs5 jours3750.003750.003980.002950.003520.002060.002750.003980.003980.0045.00