Course Overview
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.
Who should attend
Experienced system administrators that specialize in networking.
Prerequisites
- System administration experience on 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 or physical networking infrastructure.
Course 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
Course Content
- Course Introduction
- Evolution of the Software-Defined Data Center
- Management and Control Components
- Integrating vSphere and Physical Networking
- NSX Logical Networking and VXLAN
- NSX Logical Routing
- NSX Layer 2 Bridging
- Additional Edge Gateway Services
- NSX Firewall and Security Services
- NSX Operations and Monitoring Tools
- Multi-vCenter NSX
- VMware NSX and Design