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 E
- 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 E
- 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"
