Duration
5 days
Overview
This 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.
Product Alignment
- NSX 6.2
- VMware vSphere® 6
Objectives
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
Certifications
This course prepares you for the following certification:
- VCP6-NV
Intended Audience
Experienced system administrators who specialize in networking
Prerequisites
- System administration experience with Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
- Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals course for VCA-DCV certification
- A solid background in a Cisco-based infrastructure or physical networking infrastructure
Outline
- Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives
- Evolution of the Software-Defined Data Center
- Evolution of the software-defined data center
- Introduction to vSphere
- Introduction to network virtualization
- vSphere networking
- Management and Control Components
- VMware NSX® Manager™
- VMware NSX® Controller™ clusters
- Integrating vSphere and Physical Networking
- Virtual and physical network integration
- NSX preparation
- NSX Logical Networking and VXLAN
- VXLAN overview and NSX switching
- NSX replication modes and frame walk
- NSX Logical Routing
- IP routing fundamentals
- Overview of routing protocols
- Distributed logical router
- Edge gateway routing
- NSX Layer 2 Bridging
- NSX software bridging
- Distributed logical router and bridging
- Bridging packet flow
- Bridging use case and examples
- Hardware bridging
- Additional Edge Gateway Services
- Network address translation
- Network load balancing
- Virtual private networking
- Edge services gateway high availability
- 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
- NSX Operations and Monitoring Tools
- Backup and availability
- Role-based access control
- Monitoring tools
- Flow monitoring
- Multi-vCenter NSX
- Introduction to multi-vCenter NSX
- Multi-vCenter NSX deployment models
- VMware NSX and Design
- NSX designs: infrastructure
- NSX designs: advanced network protocols
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.