Duration
5 days
Course Overview
This five-day, comprehensive, fast-paced training course presents VMware NSX® as a part of the software-defined data center. You will learn how to use logical switching in NSX to virtualize your switching environment. The course also details logical routing to enable you to dynamically route between different virtual environments. You will also learn how to use gateway services, firewall configurations, and security services to help secure and optimize your NSX environment.
Access to a software-defined data center environment is provided through hands-on labs to reinforce the skills and concepts presented in the course.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Configure and deploy NSX components for management and control
- Describe basic NSX layer 2 networking
- Configure, deploy, and use logical switch networks
- Configure and deploy NSX distributed router appliances to establish east-west connectivity
- Configure and deploy VMware NSX® Edge™ services gateway appliances to establish north-south connectivity
- Configure NSX L2 bridging
- Configure and use all main features of the NSX Edge services gateway
- Configure NSX Edge firewall rules to restrict network traffic
- Configure NSX distributed firewall rules to restrict network traffic
- Configure Service Composer policies
- Configure an identity-aware firewall
- Describe NSX data security
- Use the cross-vCenter NSX feature
This course prepares you for the following certification:
- VMware Certified Professional 6 – Network Virtualization (VCP6-NV)
Audience
Experienced system or network administrators
Prerequisites
- Understanding of enterprise switching and routing
- Knowledge of TCP/IP services
- Experience with firewalls and firewall rule sets
- Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals course
- Understanding of the concepts presented in the VMware Introduction to Network Virtualization with NSX course
Course Modules
1 Course Introduction
Introductions and course logistics
Review course objectives
2 Introduction to vSphere Networking
Describe VMware vSphere® networking components
Describe vSphere standard switches
Describe vSphere distributed switches
3 Introduction to NSX
Describe the benefits of NSX
Identify NSX key use cases
4 NSX Architecture
Describe the NSX architecture
Describe the cloud management, management, control, and data planes of NSX
Identify the component interactions
Describe the VMware NSX® Controller™ cluster and its functions
Explain the NSX Controller workload distribution
5 NSX Infrastructure Preparation
Explain the steps required for an NSX installation
Describe what is involved in planning an NSX deployment
Describe the NSX Controller cluster and deployment
Describe NSX Controller cluster high availability and load distribution
Explain how to deploy and configure the NSX Controller cluster
Explain the workflow involved in host preparation
6 NSX Logical Switch Networks
Explain transport zones, VXLANs, and VXLAN tunnel end points (VTEPs)
Describe the procedure for preparing the infrastructure for virtual networking
Describe the configuration of vSphere distributed switches for VXLAN
Identify the components involved in NSX logical switching
Define VLANs for VXLAN
7 NSX Logical Routing
Explain the east-west and north-south routing concepts
Define the NSX distributed logical router
Explain the logical router, interfaces, and interface addresses
Describe the management and control plane interaction
Describe logical router deployment models and two-tier routing for east-west traffic
Explain the common topologies of an NSX Edge services gateway
8 Advanced NSX Logical Routing
Describe how routers connect remote networks
Explain route redistribution methods
Describe less-than-or-equal (LE) and greater-than-or-equal (GE) configurations
Describe routing event notification enhancements
Configure equal-cost multipath (ECMP) routing
Describe high availability for NSX Edge service gateways
9 NSX L2 Bridging
Explain L2 bridging use cases
Describe software and hardware L2 bridging between VXLAN and VLANs
Discuss L2 bridging packet flows
10 NSX Edge Services
Describe the NSX Edge Services
Explain how Network Address Translation (NAT) works
Explain NAT64
Explain the function of load balancing
Explain one-armed and inline load-balancing architectures
Explain the DHCP and DNS services for NSX Edge
11 NSX Edge VPN Services
Describe the NSX Edge VPN services
Describe the VPN use cases
Configure a L2 VPN on an NSX Edge instance
Configure an NSX Edge instance for IPsec VPN services
Explain NSX Edge SSL VPN-Plus services
Configure NSX Edge SSL VPN-Plus server settings
12 NSX Security Services
Describe the policy enforcement of the distributed firewall
Describe virtualization context-awareness
Explain custom network and security containers
Describe the architecture of an NSX Edge firewall
Explain DHCP snooping
Explain ARP snooping
13 NSX Advanced Security Services
Describe NSX SpoofGuard
Identify how tags enable dynamic security service chains
Explain Service Composer groups, policies, and tags
Describe the Identity Firewall architecture
Explain Application Rule Manager
Explain how to create a monitoring session
14 NSX Introspection Services
Describe the types of introspection services
Describe the installation and configuration of Guest and Network Introspection
Summarize Guest and Network Introspection alarms, events, and audit messages
15 Cross-vCenter NSX
Describe cross-vCenter features and use cases
Identify VMware NSX® Manager™ roles and NSX Controller cluster placement
Deploy universal logical networks
Explain the design considerations for cross-vCenter NSXNSX
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.