VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage

Intra-company training

Who is the training for?

Experienced system or network administrators.

Level reached

Advanced

Duration

5,00 day(s)

Language(s) of service

FR

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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 or VCA-DCV certification

Goals

  • 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-south connectivity
  • 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

Contents

  • Course Introduction
  • Introductions and course logistics
  • Course objectives
  • Software-Defined Data Center
  • Describe the evolution of the software-defined data center
  • Describe VMware vSphere®
  • Describe VMware NSX
  • Management and Control Plane Components
  • Understand the management, control, and data planes
  • Describe VMware NSX® Manager™
  • Describe the VMware NSX® Controller™ cluster
  • 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
  • VMware NSX Logical Routing
  • Discuss routing protocols
  • Describe the VMware NSX logical router
  • Describe the NSX Edge services gateway
  • VMware NSX L2 Bridging
  • Understand L2 bridging and use cases
  • Describe L2 software bridging
  • Describe L2 hardware bridging
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

Organization contact details

Noémie Turpain / Fabienne François

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