Description

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.

Product Alignment

• VMware NSX 4.1.0

Learning Objectives

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 NSX

Prerequisites

Before 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.

Who Should Attend

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