Course Details
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This comprehensive, fast-paced training course focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware NSX™. 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.
Data center network architectures are examined to demonstrate how NSX intersects with and virtualizes functions of a Cisco-based infrastructure in spine-leaf and traditional core-aggregate-access architectures. Lecture and hands-on lab activities support the student’s understanding of NSX features, functionality, and on-going management and control.
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• 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, deploy, and use logical switch networks in a UCS environment
• Describe the Cisco Nexus and UCS products and features that are relevant to NSX
• 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 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 vRealize™ Automation and NSX enable automated provisioning of IT services and
networks
• Design a NSX solution with Cisco Nexus and Cisco UCS
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- Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
- Software-Defined Data Center
- Describe the software-defined data center concepts
- Describe the evolution of the software-defined data center
- Discuss VMware vSphere® virtualization
- Describe network virtualization
- vSphere Networking Fundamentals
- Describe vSphere virtual networking
- Describe vSphere distributed switches
- 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 instance and the NSX Controller cluster
- 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
- Nexus and UCS Architecture
- Describe a Cisco Nexus switching architecture
- Identify a Cisco UCS connectivity architecture
- Describe Cisco UCS profiles
- Distributed Logical Router
- Describe the role of the NSX logical router and NSX Edge gateway
- Diagram East-West and North-South traffic flows
- Describe the distributed logical router
- Describe the distributed logical router control virtual machine
- NSX Edge Routing and High Availability
- Describe the features of the NSX Edge services gateway
- Configure static and dynamic routing on NSX Edge
- 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
- Virtual Private Networks
- Identify NSX VPN use cases
- Configure site-to-site IPsec VPNs
- Configure SSL VPNs for remote access
- Configure Layer 2 VPN
- Layer 2 Bridging
- Describe Layer 2 bridging between VXLAN and VLAN
- Describe the traffic flow between VXLAN and VLAN
- NSX Security
- Describe microsegmentation
- Compare NSX Edge and NSX Distributed Firewalls to traditional firewalls
- Configure NSX firewall policies
- Extend the functionality of NSX with Service Composer
- Configure security groups and security policies with Service Composer
- Operations
- Implement NSX role-based access control
- Analyze NSX flow monitoring data
- Create or modify firewall rules from NSX flow monitoring data
- Automation
- Describe VMware vRealize™ Orchestrator™
- Describe the vRealize Automation capabilities
- Describe how vRealize Automation and NSX interact
- Extensibility and Design
- Describe VMware NSX API™
- Identify the NSX and Cisco design options
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Experienced system administrators that specialize in networking
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• 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.
• A solid background in a Cisco-based infrastructure or NSX: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.1].