Opleiding: Juniper Network Design - Data Centre (JND-DC)

Course Outline

This course is targeted specifically for those who have a solid understanding of operation and configuration and are looking to enhance their skill sets by learning the principles of design for the data center.

Prerequisites & Audience

The following are the prerequisites for this course:

• Knowledge of routing and switching architectures and protocols.

• Knowledge of Juniper Networks products and solutions.

• Understanding of infrastructure security principles.

• Basic knowledge of hypervisors and load balancers.

• Completion of the Juniper Networks Design Fundamentals (JNDF) course

Course Objectives

• After successfully completing this course, you should be able to:

• State high-level concepts about different data center architectures.

• Identify features used to interconnect data centers.

• Identify key high-level considerations about securing and monitoring a data center deployment.

• Outline key high-level concepts when implementing different data center approaches.

• Recommend data center cooling designs and considerations.

• Explain device placement and cabling requirements.

• Outline different data center use cases with basic architectures.

• Describe a traditional multitier data center architecture.

• Explain link aggregation and redundant trunk groups.

• Explain multichassis link aggregation.

• Summarize and discuss key concepts and components of a Virtual Chassis.

• Summarize and discuss key concepts and components of a VCF.

• Summarize and discuss key concepts and components of a QFabric System.

• Summarize and discuss key concepts and components of Junos Fusion.

• List the reasons for the shift to IP fabrics.

• Summarize how to scale an IP fabric.

• State the design considerations of a VXLAN overlay.

• Define the term Data Center Interconnect.

• List differences between the different Layer 2 and Layer 3 DCIs.

• Summarize and discuss the benefits and use cases for EVPN.

• Discuss the security requirements and design principles of the data center.

• Identify the security elements of the data center.

• Explain how to simplify security in the data center.

• Discuss the security enforcement layers in the data center.

• Summarize and discuss the purpose of SDN.

• Explain the function of Contrail.

• Summarize and discuss the purpose of NFV.

• Discuss the purpose and function of vSRX and vMX.

• Discuss the importance of understanding the baseline behaviors in your data center.

• List the characteristics of the Junos Space Network Management Platform and describe its deployment options.

• Describe the importance of analytics.

• Discuss automation in the data center.

• Discuss the benefits of QoS and CoS.

• State the benefits of a converged network.

• Identify general aspects of data center migration.

• Summarize and discuss best practices for migration planning.

• Outline some common migration scenarios.

• Summarize high availability design considerations in the data center.

• Provide an overview of high availability offerings and solutions in the data center.