VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage (NSXICM)

Module 1: Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

Module 2: Software-Defined Data Center

• Describe the software-defined data center concepts
• Describe the evolution of the software-defined data center
• Discuss VMware vSphere® virtualization
• Describe network virtualization

Module 3: Networking Fundamentals

• Describe Ethernet switching fundamentals
• Describe the vSphere virtual networking
• Describe the vSphere distributed switches
• Identify the data center network topologies that are optimized for network virtualization

Module 4: Management and Control Planes

• Describe the role of VMware NSX Manager™ and VMware NSX Controller™
• Identify NSX Controller clustering best practices
• Deploy the NSX Manager instance and the NSX Controller cluster

Module 5: Logical Switch Networks

• Describe VXLAN protocol
• Identify VTEP functions
• Describe how NSX logical switches process Broadcast,
• Unknown unicast, and Multicast traffic
• Describe ARP suppression
• Compare unicast, multicast, and hybrid controller replication modes

Module 6: Distributed Logical Router

• Identify supported dynamic routing protocols
• Describe the role of the NSX logical router and NSX Edge gateway
• Diagram East-West and North-South traffic flows
• Describe the distributed logical router
• Describe the distributed logical router control virtual machine

Module 7: NSX Edge Routing and High Availability

• Describe the features of the NSX Edge services gateway
• Configure static and dynamic routing on NSX Edge
• Describe NSX Edge network address translation operation
• Describe NSX Edge one-arm and inline load balancing
• Compare NSX Edge high availability modes
• Scale and place NSX Edge appliances

Module 8: Virtual Private Networks

• Identify NSX VPN use cases
• Configure site-to-site IPsec VPNs
• Configure SSL VPNs for remote access
• Configure Layer 2 VPN

Module 9: Layer 2 Bridging

• Describe Layer 2 bridging between VXLAN and VLAN
• Describe the traffic flow between VXLAN and VLAN

Module 10: NSX Security

• Describe microsegmentation
• Compare NSX Edge and NSX Distributed Firewalls to traditional firewalls
• Configure NSX firewall policies
• Extend the functionality of NSX with Service Composer
• Configure security groups and security policies with Service Composer

Module 11: Operations

• Implement NSX role-based access control
• Analyze NSX flow monitoring data
• Create or modify firewall rules from NSX flow monitoring data

Module 12: Automation

• Describe VMware vRealize™ Orchestrator™
• Describe the vRealize Automation capabilities
• Describe how vRealize Automation and NSX interact