Course Description
This 5-day comprehensive, fast-paced training course focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware NSX®. This course addresses NSX as a part of the software-defined data center, implementation use cases and features of NSX, and functionality operating at layer 2 through layer 7 of the OSI model. Data center network architectures are examined to demonstrate how NSX intersects with and virtualizes functions of a Cisco-based infrastructure in spine-leaf and traditional core-aggregate-access architectures. Lecture and hands-on lab activities support your understanding of NSX features, functionality, and ongoing management and control.
Highlights:By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
Describe the software-defined data center
Describe how NSX is the next step in the evolution of the software-defined data center
Describe features and benefits of NSX network virtualization
Identify prerequisites for NSX • Configure and deploy NSX management, control, and data plane components
Configure, deploy, and use logical switch networks
Describe advanced networking products and features that are relevant to NSX
Configure and deploy the NSX distributed router to optimize east-west data center traffic flows
Configure and deploy VMware NSX® Edge™ services gateway appliances
Explore advanced routing designs that optimize north-south traffic flows
Configure and use NSX virtual private networks
Configure and use logical load balancing
Configure NSX Edge firewall and distributed firewall policy rules
Configure Service Composer security groups and policies
Use role-based access to control user account privileges
Use activity monitoring to validate and create security policies
Design an NSX solution that considers rack design and advanced networking capabilities
Audience:Experienced system administrators who specialize in networking
Agenda
1 Course Introduction
Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives
2 Evolution of the Software-Defined Data Center
Evolution of the software-defined data center
Introduction to vSphere
Introduction to network virtualization
vSphere networking
3 Management and Control Components
VMware NSX® Manager™
VMware NSX® Controller™ clusters
4 Integrating vSphere and Physical Networking
Virtual and physical network integration
NSX preparation
5 NSX Logical Networking and VXLAN
VXLAN overview and NSX switching
NSX replication modes and frame walk
6 NSX Logical Routing
IP routing fundamentals
Overview of routing protocols
Distributed logical router
Edge gateway routing
7 NSX Layer 2 Bridging
NSX software bridging
Distributed logical router and bridging
Bridging packet flow
Bridging use case and examples
Hardware bridging
8 Additional Edge Gateway Services
Network address translation
Network load balancing
Virtual private networking
Edge services gateway high availability
9 NSX Firewall and Security Services
NSX security overview
NSX Edge firewall
NSX distributed firewall
NSX identity-based firewall
Service Composer
Data security and activity monitoring
NSX data security
10 NSX Operations and Monitoring Tools
Backup and availability
Role-based access control
Monitoring tools
Flow monitoring
11 Multi-vCenter NSX
Introduction to multi-vCenter NSX
Multi-vCenter NSX deployment models
12 VMware NSX and Design
NSX designs: infrastructure
NSX designs: advanced network protocols
Audience
Experienced system administrators who specialize in networking