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VMware NSX-T Data Center: Design [V3.2] course is designed to provide learners with a comprehensive understanding of how to design and deploy VMware NSX-T Data Center solutions. This course covers a range of topics, including network virtualization, network infrastructure, security, and automation.

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Course Highlights

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Comprehensive understanding of NSX-T Data Center design principles

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Hands-on labs for practical experience

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Learn to design, deploy and configure NSX-T Data Center







Skills You’ll Learn

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Designing and implementing VMware NSX-T Data Center solutions

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Network virtualization

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Network infrastructure

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Security and automation

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Troubleshooting NSX-T Data Center issues

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Curriculum

  • Introduction and course logistics
  • Course objectives

  • Identify design terms
  • Describe framework and project methodology
  • Describe VMware Validated Design™
  • Identify customers’ requirements, assumptions,constraints, and risks
  • Explain the conceptual design
  • Explain the logical design
  • Explain the physical design

  • Recognize the main elements in the NSX-T Data Center 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

  • 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

  • Describe concepts and terminology in logical switching
  • Identify segment and transport zone design considerations
  • Identify virtual switch design considerations
  • Identify uplink profile, VMware vSphere® Network I/O Control profile, and transport node profile design considerations
  • Identify Geneve tunneling design considerations
  • Identify BUM replication mode design considerations
     

  • Explain the function and features of logical routing
  • Describe NSX-T Data Center 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 VRF Lite requirements and considerations
  • Identify the typical NSX scalable architectures

  • Identify different security features available in NSXT Data Center
  • 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-T Data Center security best practices

  • Identify the stateful services available in different edge cluster high availability modes
  • Describe failover detection mechanisms
  • Explain the design considerations for integrating VMware NSX® Advanced Load Balancer™ with NSX-T Data Center
  • Describe stateful and stateless NSX-T Data Center NAT
  • Identify benefits of NSX-T Data Center DHCP
  • Identify benefits of metadata proxy
  • Describe IPSec VPN and L2 VPN

  • 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

  • Explain scale considerations in an NSX-T Data Center 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 Federation disaster recovery designs
     

  • 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 N-VDS enhanced datapath modes and use cases
  • List the key performance factors for compute nodes and NSX Edge nodes

Description

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Target Audience:

  • This course is ideal for network engineers, architects, and administrators who want to learn how to design and implement VMware NSX-T Data Center solutions in a production environment.
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Prerequisite:

  • Learners should have experience with networking and virtualization technologies before taking this course. Knowledge of VMware vSphere and basic familiarity with Linux and networking is recommended.
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Benefits of the course:

  • Gain in-depth knowledge of VMware NSX-T Data Center design and implementation
  • Learn how to deploy and configure NSX-T Data Center in a production environment
  • Improve troubleshooting skills for NSX-T Data Center issues
  • Enhance your career prospects as a network engineer, architect, or administrator
  • Achieve the NSX-T Data Center certification after passing the exam
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Exam details to pass the course:

  • The exam for this course is the VMware Certified Professional - Network Virtualization 2021 (VCP-NV 2021) exam, which consists of 70 multiple-choice questions. The passing score for the exam is 300 out of 500 points, and the time limit is 120 minutes.
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Certification path:

  • VMware Certified Professional - Network Virtualization 2021 (VCP-NV 2021)
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Career options after doing the course:

  • Network Engineer
  • Network Architect
  • Network Administrator
  • Virtualization Engineer
  • Virtualization Architect
  • Security Engineer

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FAQs

NSX-T Data Center is a network virtualization and security platform that provides a range of networking and security services for virtualized environments.

Yes, learners should have experience with networking and virtualization technologies before taking this course. Knowledge of VMware vSphere and basic familiarity with Linux and networking is recommended.

After passing the VCP-NV 2021 exam, learners will receive the VMware Certified Professional - Network Virtualization 2021 certification.

The career options after completing this course include network engineer, network architect, network administrator, virtualization engineer, virtualization architect, and security engineer.

The duration of the course is five days.

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