Description
About this course
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.
Access to a software-defined data center environment is provided through hands-on labs to reinforce the skills and concepts presented in the course.
Who Should Attend
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 orVCA-DCV certification
Course 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-southconnectivity
- 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
1. Course Introduction
Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives
2. Software-Defined Data Center
Describe the evolution of the software-defined data center
Describe VMware NSX
Describe VMware vSphere®
3. Management and Control Plane Components
Understand the management, control, and data planes
Describe VMware NSX® Manager™
Describe the VMware NSX® Controller™ cluster
4. Logical Switch Networks
Describe Ethernet fundamentals
Describe VMware vSphere® Distributed Switch™
Describe switch link aggregation
Describe VLAN
Describe VXLAN logical switch networks
Describe VMware NSX Controller replication
5. VMware NSX Logical Routing
Discuss routing protocols
Describe the VMware NSX logical router
Describe the NSX Edge services gateway
6. VMware NSX L2 Bridging
Understand L2 bridging and use cases
Describe L2 software bridging
Describe L2 hardware bridging
7. NSX Edge Gateway Services
Describe network address translation
Describe load balancing
Describe high availability
Describe virtual private networking
Configure L2 VPN
Configure IPsec VPN
Configure SSL VPN-Plus
8. VMware NSX Firewall and Security Services
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
9. Cross-vCenter VMware NSX
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
