Overview
Course Description
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!This comprehensive, fast-paced training course focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware NSX®. This course presents VMware NSX as a part of the software-defined data center. You will learn how to use logical switching in VMware NSX to virtualize your switching environment. The course also details logical routing to enable you to dynamically route between different virtual environments. And you will learn how to take use gateway services, firewall configurations, and security services to help secure and optimize your VMware NSX environment.
Audience Profile
Experienced system or network administrators
Prerequisite(s) Recommended
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 or VCA-DCV certification.
Learning Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Describe the evolution of the software-defined data center.
- Configure and deploy VMware NSX components for management and control.
- Describe basic VMware NSX layer 2 networking.
- Configure, deploy, and use logical switch networks.
- Configure and deploy VMware NSX distributed router appliances to establish east-west connectivity.
- Configure and deploy VMware NSX® Edge services gateway appliances to establish north-south connectivity.
- Configure VMware 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 VMware NSX distributed firewall rules to restrict network traffic.
- Configure Service Composer policies.
- Configure an identity-aware firewall.
- Describe VMware NSX data security.
- Use the cross-vCenter VMware NSX feature.
Course Outline
Course Outline
Module 1: Course Introduction
Lessons
• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives
Module 2: Software-Defined Data Center
Lessons
• Describe the evolution of the software-defined data center
• Describe VMware vSphere
• Describe VMware NSX
Module 3: Management and Control Plane Components
Lessons
• Understand the management, control, and data planes
• Describe VMware NSX Manager
• Describe the VMware NSX Controller cluster
Module 4: Logical Switch Networks
Lessons
• Describe Ethernet fundamentals
• Describe VMware vSphere Distributed Switch
• Describe switch link aggregation
• Describe VLAN
• Describe VXLAN logical switch networks
• Describe VMware NSX Controller replication
Module 5: VMware NSX Logical Routing
Lessons
• Discuss routing protocols
• Describe the VMware NSX logical router
• Describe the NSX Edge services gateway
Module 6: VMware NSX L2 Bridging
Lessons
• Understand L2 bridging and use cases
• Describe L2 software bridging
• Describe L2 hardware bridging
Module 7: NSX Edge Gateway Services
Lessons
• Describe network address translation
• Describe load balancing
• Describe high availability
• Describe virtual private networking
• Configure L2 VPN
• Configure IPsec VPN
• Configure SSL VPN-Plus
Module 8: VMware NSX Firewall and Security Services
Lessons
• Describe the NSX Edge firewall
• Describe the VMware NSX distributed firewall
• Describe VMware NSX data security
• Describe the Service Composer
• Describe the identity-aware firewall
Module 9: Cross-vCenter VMware NSX
Lessons
• Understand the cross-vCenter VMware NSX feature
• Identify the benefits of the cross-vCenter VMware NSX feature
• Configure the cross-vCenter VMware NSX feature
• Discuss the deployment models for cross-vCenter VMware NSX