Course Overview

This self-paced course focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware NSX™ Standard Edition. This course covers VMware NSX Standard Edition as a part of the software-defined data center (SDDC) platform. You will learn how to use the logical switching functionality in NSX to virtualize your switching environment. The course also details logical routing to enable you to dynamically route between different virtual environments.

Access to an SDDC environment is provided through hands-on labs to reinforce the skills and concepts presented in the course.

Course Objectives

• Explain the role of network virtualization in a software-defined data center
• Explain the features, functions, and configuration of VMware NSX Manager™ and the VMware NSX Controller™ cluster
• Describe logical switches and VXLAN
• Explain how to create a layer 2 network on top of layer 3 networks
• Describe the components of VMware NSX distributed logical router and VMware NSX Edge™ services gateway
• Create a layer 2 adjacency between the physical network and the virtual network
• Discuss the overview and configuration of NSX Edge network address translation (NAT)
• Explain the VMware NSX firewall and security services

Target Audience

• Experienced system or network administrators

Course Modules

1. Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2. Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC)

• Describe the evolution of the SDDC
• Describe VMware vSphere®
• Describe VMware NSX™

3. Management and Control Plane Components

• Understand the management, control, and data planes
• Describe VMware NSX Manager™
• Describe the VMware NSX Controller™ cluster

4. Logical Switch Networks

• Describe Ethernet fundamentals
• Describe VMware vSphere® Distributed Switch™ 
• Describe switch link aggregation
• Describe VLAN
• Describe VXLAN: Logical Switch Networks
• Describe the VMware NSX Controller replication

5. VMware NSX Logical Routing

• Discuss routing protocols
• Describe the VMware NSX logical router
• Describe the NSX Edge services gateway

6. VMware NSX L2 Bridging

• Understand L2 bridging and use cases
• Describe Layer 2 software bridging
• Describe Layer 2 hardware bridging

7. Edge Gateway Services

• Describe Network Address Translation

8. VMware NSX Firewall and Security Services

Describe the VMware NSX Edge™ firewall