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. Lecture and hands-on lab activities support the student's understanding of VMware NSX features, functionality, and ongoing management and control.
Target Audience
Experienced system administrators that specialize in networking
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- Compelling: Interactive modules with labs that build as you progress
- Official e-courseware
- Comprehensive: Rich content equivalent to classroom training that meets certification course requirements, including final assessments. Some courses also include bonus items like exam vouchers.
- Convenient: 30 days to access the content multiple times at your pace
- VCP Certification Exam Voucher
- 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
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Describe the evolution of the software-defined data center
- Describe how NSX is the next step in the evolution of the software-defined data center
- Describe data center prerequisites for NSX deployment
- Configure and deploy NSX components for management and control
- Describe basic NSX layer 2 networking
- Configure, deploy, and use logical switch networks
- Configure and deploy NSX distributed router appliances to establish East-West connectivity
- Configure and deploy VMware NSX Edge™ services gateway
- appliances to establish North-South connectivity
- Configure and use all main features of the NSX Edge services gateway
- Configure NSX Edge firewall rules to restrict network traffic
- Configure NSX distributed firewall rules to restrict network traffic
- Use role-based access to control user account privileges
- Use activity monitoring to determine whether a security policy is effective
- Configure service composer policies
Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
VMware NSX Components for Management and Control
- Introduction to VMware vSphere® Virtualization
- Evolution of the software-defined data center
- Introduction to NSX
- VMware NSX Manager™
- NSX Controller cluster
Logical Switch Networks
- Ethernet fundamentals
- VMware vSphere® Distributed Switch™ overview
- Switch link aggregation
- VLAN
- VXLAN: Logical Switch Networks
- VMware NSX Controller™ replication
Routing with VMware NSX Edge Appliances
- Routing protocols primer
- NSX logical router
- NSX Edge services gateway
Features of the VMware NSX Edge Services Gateway
- Network address translation
- Load balancing
- High availability
- Virtual private networking: Layer 2 VPN; IPsec VPN; SSL VPN-Plus
- VLAN-to-VXLAN bridging
VMware NSX Security
- NSX Edge firewall
- NSX distributed firewall
- Role-based access control
- NSX data endpoint
- Flow Monitoring
- Service Composer