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