VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.4]

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• 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 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 NSX distributed firewall rules to restrict network traffic
• Configure Service Composer policies
• Configure an identity-aware firewall
• Describe NSX data security
• Use the cross-vCenter NSX feature

• Experienced system or network administrators

1 Course Introduction
• Introductions and course logistics
• Review course objectives

2 Introduction to vSphere Networking
• Describe VMware vSphere® networking components
• Describe vSphere standard switches
• Describe vSphere distributed switches

3 Introduction to NSX
• Describe the benefits of NSX
• Identify NSX key use cases

4 NSX Architecture
• Describe the NSX architecture
• Describe the cloud management, management, control, and data planes of NSX
• Identify the component interactions
• Describe the VMware NSX® Controller™ cluster and its functions
• Explain the NSX Controller workload distribution

5 NSX Infrastructure Preparation
• Explain the steps required for an NSX installation
• Describe what is involved in planning an NSX deployment
• Describe the NSX Controller cluster and deployment
• Describe NSX Controller cluster high availability and load distribution
• Explain how to deploy and configure the NSX Controller cluster
• Explain the workflow involved in host preparation

6 NSX Logical Switch Networks
• Explain transport zones, VXLANs, and VXLAN tunnel end points (VTEPs)
• Describe the procedure for preparing the infrastructure for virtual networking
• Describe the configuration of vSphere distributed switches for VXLAN
• Identify the components involved in NSX logical switching
• Define VLANs for VXLAN

7 NSX Logical Routing
• Explain the east-west and north-south routing concepts
• Define the NSX distributed logical router
• Explain the logical router, interfaces, and interface addresses
• Describe the management and control plane interaction
• Describe logical router deployment models and two-tier routing for east-west traffic
• Explain the common topologies of an NSX Edge services gateway

8 Advanced NSX Logical Routing
• Describe how routers connect remote networks
• Explain route redistribution methods
• Describe less-than-or-equal (LE) and greater-than-or-equal (GE) configurations
• Describe routing event notification enhancements
• Configure equal-cost multipath (ECMP) routing
• Describe high availability for NSX Edge service gateways

9 NSX L2 Bridging
• Explain L2 bridging use cases
• Describe software and hardware L2 bridging between VXLAN and VLANs
• Discuss L2 bridging packet flows

10 NSX Edge Services
• Describe the NSX Edge Services
• Explain how Network Address Translation (NAT) works
• Explain NAT64
• Explain the function of load balancing
• Explain one-armed and inline load-balancing architectures
• Explain the DHCP and DNS services for NSX Edge

11 NSX Edge VPN Services
• Describe the NSX Edge VPN services
• Describe the VPN use cases
• Configure a L2 VPN on an NSX Edge instance
• Configure an NSX Edge instance for IPsec VPN services
• Explain NSX Edge SSL VPN-Plus services
• Configure NSX Edge SSL VPN-Plus server settings

12 NSX Security Services
• Describe the policy enforcement of the distributed firewall
• Describe virtualization context-awareness
• Explain custom network and security containers
• Describe the architecture of an NSX Edge firewall
• Explain DHCP snooping
• Explain ARP snooping

13 NSX Advanced Security Services
• Describe NSX SpoofGuard
• Identify how tags enable dynamic security service chains
• Explain Service Composer groups, policies, and tags
• Describe the Identity Firewall architecture
• Explain Application Rule Manager
• Explain how to create a monitoring session

14 NSX Introspection Services
• Describe the types of introspection services
• Describe the installation and configuration of Guest and Network Introspection
• Summarize Guest and Network Introspection alarms, events, and audit messages

15 Cross-vCenter NSX
• Describe cross-vCenter features and use cases
• Identify VMware NSX® Manager™ roles and NSX Controller cluster placement
• Deploy universal logical networks
• Explain the design considerations for cross-vCenter NSX