NSXICM4-VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage

Course Duration

5 Days

Audience

Employees of federal, state and local governments; and businesses working with the government.

Prerequisites

Students should have a good understanding of TCP/IP services and protocols, and knowledge and working experience with computer networking including switching and routing technologies.

Course Description

This five-day, fast-paced course provides comprehensive training to install, configure, and manage a VMware NSX environment. This course covers key features and functionality offered in the NSX 4.x release, including the overall infrastructure, logical switching, logical routing, networking and security services, firewalls and advanced threat prevention, and more. Access to a software-defined data center environment is provided through hands-on labs to reinforce the skills and concepts presented in the course.

Learning Objectives

• Describe the architecture and main components of NSX
• Explain the features and benefits of NSX
• Deploy the NSX Management cluster and VMware NSX® Edge™ nodes
• Prepare VMware ESXi™ hosts to participate in NSX networking
• Create and configure segments for layer 2 forwarding
• Create and configure Tier-0 and Tier-1 gateways for logical routing
• Use distributed and gateway firewall policies to filter east-west and north-south traffic in NSX
• Configure Advanced Threat Prevention features
• Configure network services on NSX Edge nodes
• Use VMware Identity Manager™ and LDAP to manage users and access
• Explain the use cases, importance, and architecture of Federation

Course Outline

Course Topics

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives
• Introduce the VMware Virtual Cloud Network vision
• Describe the NSX product portfolio
• Discuss NSX features, use cases, and benefits
• Explain NSX architecture and components
• Explain the management, control, data, and consumption planes and their functions.
• Deploy VMware NSX® ManagerTM nodes on ESXi hypervisors
• Navigate through the NSX UI
• Explain data plane components such as N-VDS/VDS, transport nodes, transport zones, profiles, and more
• Perform transport node preparation and configure the data plane infrastructure
• Verify transport node status and connectivity
• Explain DPU-based acceleration in NSX
• Install NSX using DPUs
• Introduce key components and terminology in logical switching
• Describe the function and types of L2 segments
• Explain tunneling and the Geneve encapsulation
• Configure logical segments and attach hosts using NSX UI
• Describe the function and types of segment profiles
• Create segment profiles and apply them to segments and ports
• Explain the function of MAC, ARP, and TEP tables used in packet forwarding
• Demonstrate L2 unicast packet flow
• Explain ARP suppression and BUM traffic handling
• Describe the logical routing function and use cases
• Introduce the two-tier routing architecture, topologies, and components