VMware ® NSX: Install, Configure, Manage v6.1

Course details

This course covers NSX as a part of the software-defined data center platform, implementation use cases along with features of NSX, and functionality operating at Layer 2 through Layer 7 of the OSI model.

Course Outline

1 - Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

3 - Networking Fundamentals

• Describe Ethernet switching fundamentals
• Describe IP routing fundamentals
• Identify challenges of traditional data network topologies
• Identify data center network topologies optimized for network virtualization

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 and the NSX Controller cluster

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

6 - NSX Routing

• 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

7 - Layer 2 Bridging

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

8 - Edge Services

• 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

9 - Virtual Private Networking

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

10 - Firewalls

• Describe microsegmentation
• Compare the NSX Edge and NSX Distributed Firewalls to traditional firewalls
• Configure NSX firewall policies
• Configure security groups and security policies with service composer

11 - Operations

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

12 - Automation

• Describe vCloud Automation Center capabilities
• Describe how vCloud Automation Center and NSX interact
• 2 - Software-Defined Data Center
• Describe the software-defined data center concepts
• Evolution of the software-defined data center
• Introduction to VMware vSphere® virtualization
• Introduction to network virtualization