VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage

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About this Course

This comprehensive, fast-paced training course focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware NSX™. NSX is a software networking and security virtualization platform that delivers the operational model of a virtual machine for the network. Virtual networks reproduce the layer 2–layer 7 network model in software, enabling complex multitier network topologies to be created and provisioned programmatically in seconds. NSX also provides a new model for network security where security profiles are distributed to and enforced by virtual ports and move with virtual machines.

  • Course Introduction
  • VMware NSX Components for Management and Control
  • Logical Switch Networks
  • Routing with VMware NSX Edge Appliances
  • Features of the VMware NSX Edge Services Gateway
  • VMware NSX Security

Audience Profile

Experienced system administrators that specialize in networking.

At Course Completion

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
  • Configure and deploy NSX distributed router to optimize East-West data center traffic flows
  • Configure and deploy VMware NSX Edge services gateway appliances
  • Configure and use all the main features of the NSX Edge services gateway
  • 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
  • Describe how VMware vCloud Automation Center and NSX enable automated provisioning of IT services and networks

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

Course Outline

Module 1: Course Introduction

  • Introductions and course logistics
  • Course objectives

Module 2: Software-Defined Data Center

  • Describe the evolution of the software-defined data center
  • Describe vSphere
  • Describe NSX

Module 3: Management and Control Plane Components

  • Understand the management, control, and data planes
  • Describe NSX Manager
  • Describe the NSX Controller cluster

Module 4: Logical Switch Networks

  • Describe Ethernet fundamentals
  • Describe VMware vSphere Distributed Switch
  • Describe switch link aggregation
  • Describe VLAN
  • Describe VXLAN logical switch networks
  • Describe NSX Controller replication

Module 5: NSX Logical Routing

  • Discuss routing protocols
  • Describe the NSX logical router
  • Describe the NSX Edge services gateway

Module 6: NSX L2 Bridging

  • Understand L2 bridging and use cases
  • Describe L2 software bridging
  • Describe L2 hardware bridging

Module 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

Module 8: NSX Firewall and Security Services

  • Describe the NSX Edge firewall
  • Describe the NSX distributed firewall
  • Describe NSX data security
  • Describe the Service Composer
  • Describe the identity-aware firewall

Module 8: 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