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VMware NSX-T Data Center: Multisite Deployments with Federation

Course Summary:

This three-day, hands-on training course provides you with the knowledge and skills to achieve competency in deploying, configuring, and managing the VMware NSX-TTM Data Center Federation. This course first introduces you to the architecture of the NSX-T Data Center Federation and then covers all features and functionality offered in the Federation, including the deployment of logical switching, logical routing, and security policies across multiple sites. Finally, the course describes various disaster recovery scenarios for the Federation.

Course Duration: 3 Days

Course Content:

1 Course Introduction

Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives

2 Introduction to Federation

Describe the Federation and its use cases
Explain the Federation architecture
Describe the Federation components
Deploy and register active/standby Global Managers and sites
Import network components from a Local Manager to the Global Manager

3 Federation Deployment and Topologies

Explain different supported and non-supported topologies for the Federation
Describe different deployment methods for the Federation
Create and configure Remote Tunnel Endpoints (RTEs)

4 Configuring Federation Switching and Routing

Understand the prerequisites to configure stretched segments, Tier-1, and Tier-0 gateways
Configure stretched Tier-1 gateways
Configure stretched segments
Configure stretched Tier-0 uplinks
Configure stretched Tier-0 gateways

5 Federation Packet Walks

Describe layer 2 connectivity and MAC learning
Describe East-West packet walkthrough
Describe South-North packet walkthrough

6 Federation Security

Describe Federation security
Explain different configuration workflows for Federation security
Define Federation security components
Configure security groups, policies, and rules from the Global Manager
Discuss examples of groups in different spans
Discuss global rule realization examples

7 High Availability and Disaster Recovery

Describe high availability leading practices in the Federation
Describe failure and disaster recovery scenarios for the Federation