Planning and Designing Data Center from Beginning

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Plan and Design Data Center for any network from Beginning, useful for one preparing or working in Data Center

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Last updated 4/2025

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What you'll learn

Planning and Designing of any Data Center Architecture from beginning
Step by Step procedure on Data Center Designing
Various Component used to Design Data Center, Capacity and Resource planning, selection of Server, Switches, Security Component, Management Services etc.
Traffic Flow: North to South and East to West
Physical and Logical Connectivity between all component / equipment of Data Center
Intergration of all equipment with monitoring system
Monitoring of all Data Center Equipment
What to Document, Step by Step understanding of document require to create for designing, deploying and validating Data Center
Understanding of Out of Band Management and Inband Management network
Integration of Servers, switches, security stack etc. with EMS, NMS, NTP, Syslog Server, Ticketing System etc. for NOC / Operation team to monitor and manage DC

Course content

7 sections • 25 lectures • 2h 54m total length

Begins of Journey....6:49
Explore the fundamental principles of network design, apply them to planning data centers, and learn to plan resources, capacity, and integration of servers, switches, security, and management services.
Design Principal8:20
This Lecture covers Basic Principals of Designing Data Center.

Where Do I Start ?6:46
There is always questions from Where Do We Start ? Answer is there in this Video...
Capacity Planning4:47
Its critical aspect for Doing Resource and Capacity Planning for preparing BoQ of Data Center, lets learn how to do Resource Planning properly.
Server and Switch Selection12:47
After Finalizing Resources, lets understand how to select Server and Switches for Data Center Deployment.
Beginning of Data Center High Level Architecture8:06
Extract resource requirements from applications to select servers, switches, and service layers, management, and orchestrator layers; map traffic flow, plan physical and logical connectivity, and integrate with monitoring.
WAN Layer2:12
WAN Layer Covers WAN Router, Security Stack and then it connected to Switch Layer, lets discuss the same in detail...

Which Security Component to Select ?5:02
Part 1 - Positioning of Security Component in Data Center4:41
Position security devices as the data center's first line of defense, from ddos protection at entry to firewall, ips, ssl decryption, and load balancing for encrypted traffic.
Part 2 - Positioning of Security Component in Data Center2:55
configure DNS to resolve FQDN to legitimate application IP and redirect users to approved apps, then enforce URL filtering against a database to block unauthorized web traffic in the DMZ.
Part 3 - Positioning of Security Component in Data Center2:07
Position security components in the data center DMZ by deploying a firewall and an ELB between web and app, using DNS and FQDN for resolution and port-based policies.
Part 4 - Positioning of Security Component in Data Center6:09
Position secure entry points such as VPN, jump post, and VDI to grant authorized users controlled access to data center equipment, with AAA policies defining access scope and activity monitoring.

Activities Performed by NOC-Operation Team7:34
Before we understand what and how to integrate with management services, its necessary to know what activities performed by NOC / Operation Team.
Management Services Component and Their Integration with Data Center Equipment9:09
Lets discuss in detail how Server, Switches, WAN, Security Stack gets integrated with Management Services Component.
Accessing Data Center Equipment7:45
Its critical to protect all equipment from accessing from unauthorized users and only authorized users supposed to have desired access. lets discuss how to enable the same.
Management Services Component Connectivity and Flow from Data Center Equipment4:42
Explain how management services components connect to data center equipment via out-of-band and in-band networks, using uplinks of 1g to 40g and OB aggregation to handle continuous elephant flow traffic.

Server Architecture2:59
Lets understand sub component of Server and use of each.
Understanding of Data Center Storage9:20
Explore data center storage, including web content, business and email data, SQL/NoSQL databases, and analytics, with SSD vs HDD, DAS, NAS, SAN, and cloud options.
Understanding of Data Center Compute7:42
Compare bare metal and virtualization, explain how hypervisor creates and allocates VM resources with guest operating systems, and show how clustering, redundancy, and switching enable scalable, high-performance data center compute.
Understanding of Data Center Switch Layer9:29
Trace the shift from traditional three-layer data centers to leaf-and-spine with vxlan evpn, underlay/overlay architectures, anycast gateways, and controller-based management.
Data Center Switching Part-23:20
Explore how vxlan evpn extends layer 2 across geographically separated sites, keeping vlan 10 and vlan 11 in the same subnet over a single l3 network, enabling active-active data centers.

Requirements

Basic Understanding of any network or Data Center Component (like Switch, Server, Firewall etc.)
No prior experience of planning or designing data center

Description

This course is for any person who working or will be working on data center design, deployment or operate. This also help for the one who are planning to interview or approaching any data center Job.

This course start from basic principal of designing any network and then progress with where to start journey of designing data center, selection of various component like Server, Storage, Switch Layer, WAN, Security, Management Services, Out of Band / Inband Management network etc.

Discussed on each component (Server, Storage, Switch Layer, WAN, Security, Management Services, Out of Band / Inband Management network etc) of data center in details, how to integrate all these component with each other using physical and logical connectivity.

Witch Protocol to be run between these component, where to define Gateway, how and where to advertise prefixes for both North to South and East to West Communication.

This course further progress with packet flow from end user to Application via Security, Switches and Server layer. Discussed in details about how all data center component to be integrated with management services like EMS, NMS (using SNMP, API), Syslog, Backup Server, AAA, PIM etc. for day to day monitoring, management and operate.

In Summary, this course cover in details of every aspect which require to design data center using various design principal (like availability, security, redundancy, scalability, flexibility etc.)

This course end with covering various documentation which need to prepare and what all preparation to be done before handing over data center to NOC / Operation Team for day to day management and operate.

In last course concluded with references courses which will help for further enhancing skill for engineer / professional working on data center environment.

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Who this course is for:

This course is for any professional or engineer who works or need to work on planning, designing, deploying or operating any data center. (Enterprise, Telco, BFSI, etc.). This course also help if you are preparing for interview of any data center job.

Planning and Designing Data Center from Beginning

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Course content

Introduction2 lectures • 15min

Begining Journey of Designing Data Center5 lectures • 35min

Security Layer Positioning in Data Center5 lectures • 21min

Management Services Component and Its Integration4 lectures • 29min

Understanding of Server and Switch Layer5 lectures • 33min

Interconnecting and Integration of all Data Center Component2 lectures • 33min

Finishing Line...2 lectures • 9min

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