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 release 3.2, including design principles, processes, and frameworks. The student gains a deeper understanding of the NSX-T Data Center architecture and how it can be used to create solutions to address the customer’s business needs.

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-T Data Center requirements
• Create a VMware NSX® Manager™ cluster design
• Create a VMware NSX® Edge™ cluster design to support traffic and service requirements in NSX-T Data Center
• Design logical switching and routing
• Recognize NSX-T Data Center 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-T Data Center infrastructure across multiple sites
• Describe the factors that drive performance in NSX-T Data Center

• Course Introduction
• Design Concepts
• NSX Architecture and Components
• NSX Edge Design
• NSX Logical Switching Design
• NSX Logical Routing Design
• NSX Security Design
• NSX Network Services
• 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
• Describe a typical design for a KVM compute hypervisor with two pNICs
• Differentiate dedicated and collapsed cluster approaches to SDDC design
• NSX Multilocation Design
• NSX Optimization

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

Before taking this course, you must complete the following course:

• VMware NSX-T Data Center: Install, Configure, Manage [V3.2]

You should also have the understanding or knowledge of these technologies:

• Good understanding of TCP/IP services and protocols