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VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage

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 NSX features, functionality, and on-going management and control.

Who should attend this course?

Experienced system administrators that specialize in networking.

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

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 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

Module 1: Course Introduction

  • Introductions and course logistics
  • Course objectives

Module 2: 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

Module 3: Networking Fundamentals

  • Describe Ethernet switching fundamentals
  • Describe the vSphere virtual networking
  • Describe the vSphere distributed switches
  • Identify the data center network topologies that are optimized for network virtualization

Module 4: 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

Module 5: 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

Module 6: Distributed Logical Router

  • Identify supported dynamic routing protocols
  • 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

Module 7: 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

Module 8: Virtual Private Networks

  • Identify NSX VPN use cases
  • Configure site-to-site IPsec VPNs
  • Configure SSL VPNs for remote access
  • Configure Layer 2 VPN

Module 9: Layer 2 Bridging

  • Describe Layer 2 bridging between VXLAN and VLAN
  • Describe the traffic flow between VXLAN and VLAN

Module 10: 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

Module 11: Operations

  • Implement NSX role-based access control
  • Analyze NSX flow monitoring data
  • Create or modify firewall rules from NSX flow monitoring data

Module 12: Automation

  • Describe VMware vRealize™ Orchestrator™
  • Describe the vRealize Automation capabilities
  • Describe how vRealize Automation and NSX interact

Practical information

Duration

5 Days

Languages

EN

Price

€ 3.750 + 3% VAT

Location

Virtual Class

Schedule

Guaranteed to run

Sessions in English
20-24/01/2025Book
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17-21/03/2025Book
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09-13/06/2025Book
28-31/07/2025&01/08/2025Book
29-30/09/2025&01-03/10/2025Book
15-19/12/2025Book
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