Prerequisites: NTW375, NTW280
Strong data center design skills are incredibly sought after in the IT marketplace. Receive an in-depth introduction to designing data centers and review industry best practices in this course. The focus is on the design of all aspects of a modern IT data center. This project-based course will guide you on a journey to build a medium-sized data center from the ground up. The course is broken up into three design sections: Physical, Network Infrastructure and Systems. The physical design aspects such as power, cooling, rack layout, cabling and physical security will be addressed in the Physical section. The Network Infrastructure section will cover the best practices used in data center network design such as high availability, top of rack switching, core/aggregation/access architecture, network virtualization and virtual switching, segmentation, VPLS, network security and other relevant topics. The final section, Systems, will explore topics such as compute, high-availability, storage, server virtualization, vMotion, server clustering, optimizing computing power utilization, backup, server architectures and multi-core processors, Unified fabric, I/O adapter types and other relevant topics. Multi-tenant and Cloud architectures for Data Center design will also be explored. The three major cloud segments, infrastructure as a service, platform as a service and software as a service will be covered. Upon completion of this course you will be familiar with how to evaluate, plan and design data center technologies.