DURATION: 5 days (~40 hours)
COURSE INTRODUCTION
This 5-day course prepares you to lead VMware NSX® design and deployment projects by providing an understanding of general design processes and frameworks. You will look at design and deployment considerations for network virtualization as part of an overall software-defined data center design.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
After finish the course, student will have knowledges and skills to:
- 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 VMware NSX 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
- Identify management, monitoring, and operational tools for a proposed solution
- Analyze the operational readiness of an organization and perform a skills gap analysis
- Analyze alternative design choices for risk mitigation
AUDIENCE
Network professionals who have experience working with VMware NSX and are responsible for designing or deploying virtualized network architecture
PREREQUISITES
This course requires understanding the concepts and topics presented in the following courses:
COMPLETION CERTIFICATE
After finish the course, student will receive completion certificate issued by SmartPro.
COURSE CONTENT
Module 1: Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
Module 2: Design Process and Principles
- Understand the design process
- Understand design frameworks
Module 3: Architecture and Components
- Understand the management, control, and data planes
- Describe VMware NSX® Manager™
- Design the VMware NSX® Controller™ cluster
Module 4: Switching and Routing
- Design an Ethernet infrastructure
- Describe VMware vSphere® Distributed Switch™
- Design a logical switching solution
- Design a bridging solution
- Design a VMware NSX logical router solution
Module 5: Edge Services
- Design a remote access solution
- Design load-balancing services
Module 6: Security
- Design a defense in depth
- Design edge firewall services
- Design distributed firewall services
- Design and integrate security services
Module 7: Cross-vCenter and Multisite
- Describe cross-vCenter solutions
- Design multisite NSX solutions
- Design a VMware NSX solution with stretched clusters
Module 8: Operations and Automation
- Describe native operational tools
- Describe VMware integrated monitoring tools
- Design a VMware NSX monitoring and operations solution that leverages third-party tools
Module 9: Enterprise Design Lab
- Design and present a conceptual solution
- Design and present a logical solution