Content
1. Course Introduction
• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives
2. Basic Design Concepts
• Describe the principles of design
• Describe the design process and frameworks
• Explain VMware Validated Design and its importance
3. NSX-T Data Center Architecture and Components
• Explain the NSX-T Data Center and Virtual Cloud Network
• Describe the NSX-T Data Center architecture and use cases
• List the NSX-T Management cluster design considerations
4. NSX-T Data Center Design Considerations
• Explain physical infrastructure design considerations
• Explain virtual infrastructure design considerations
• List the collapsed management and VMware NSX® Edge™ resources design considerations
• Explain dedicated management and NSX Edge resources design
5. Logical Switching Design
• Explain the VMware NSX-T™ logical switching design concepts
• Describe the traffic flooding concepts
6. NSX-T Data Center Edge Design
• List NSX Edge VM design considerations
• Explain NSX Edge BareMetal design considerations
• Describe NSX Edge cluster design
• Explain Bridge design considerations
7. Logical Routing Design
• Explain logical router components
• Describe multitier routing
• Explain IPv6 addressing and routing design concepts
• Multi-compute workload domain design considerations
8.NSX-T Data Center Advanced Routing Design
• Explain High Availability and Router Placement
• L3 Multicast design considerations
• Describe VRF Lite and EVPN
9. NSX-T Data Center Network Design
• Explain the functionality and considerations of using NAT, Proxy ARP, DHCP, and metadata proxy
• Describe the load balancer design considerations
• Explain the VPN design considerations
10. NSX-T Data Center Security Design
• Explain the Distributed Firewall design concepts
• Explain the Identity Firewall design concepts
• Explain the Gateway Firewall design concepts
• Describe the security policy methodology
11. NSX-T Data Center Federation Design
• Explain the Federation functionality
• Explain the design concepts for Federation components
• Describe the design involved for Federation networking
• Review Federation design considerations
12. NSX-T Data Center and Containers
• Understand the integration between NSX-T Data Center and vSphere with VMware Tanzu™
• Describe how NSX-T Data Center provides networking, load balancing, and security in vSphere for
VMware Tanzu
• Describe VMware Tanzu™ Kubernetes Grid™ Service
• Understand Tanzu Kubernetes Grid™ cluster networking and load balancing capabilities