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VMWARE NSX-T: DATA CENTRE INSTALL, CONFIGURE, MANAGE

Event type:Tech Skills
€2100
Live Virtual

Event Details

09:00
- 17:00
Mon, March 27 2023
- Fri, March 31 2023

This five-day, fast-paced VMware NSX-T Data Centre course provides comprehensive training on how to install, configure, and manage a VMware NSX-T™ environment. This course covers key NSX-T features and functionality offered in the NSX-T 4 release, including the overall infrastructure, logical switching, logical routing, networking and security services, firewalls and advanced threat prevention, and more.

Product Alignment:

  • VMware NSX-T 4

 

COURSE OBJECTIVES

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

  • Describe the architecture and main components of NSX-T Data Center
  • Explain the features and benefits of NSX-T Data Center
  • Deploy the NSX Management cluster and VMware NSX® Edge™  nodes
  • Prepare VMware ESXi™  and KVM hosts to participate in NSX-T Data Center 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-T Data Center
  • 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 CONTENT

    1  Course Introduction

    • Introductions and course logistics
    • Course objectives

    2  VMware Virtual Cloud Network and NSX-T Data Center

    • Introduce the VMware Virtual Cloud Network vision
    • Discuss NSX-T Data Center solutions, use cases, and benefits
    • Explain NSX-T Data Center architecture and components
    • Describe the VMware NSXTM product portfolio and features
    • Explain the management, control, data, and consumption planes and function

    3  Preparing the NSX-T Data Center Infrastructure

    • Describe NSX Management Cluster
    • Deploy VMware NSXTM ManagerTM nodes on VMware ESXi and KVM hypervisors
    • Navigate through the NSX Manager UI
    • Explain data-plane components such as N-VDS/VDS, transport nodes, transport zones, profiles, and more
    • Perform transport node preparation and establish the data center infrastructure
    • Verify transport node status and connectivity

    4  NSX-T Data Center Logical Switching

    • 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 Manager 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

      5  NSX-T Data Center Logical Routing

      • Describe the logical routing function and use cases
      • Introduce the two-tier routing architecture, topologies, and components
      • Explain the Tier-0 and Tier-1 Gateway functions
      • Describe the logical router components: Service Router and Distributed Router
      • Discuss the architecture and function of NSX Edge  nodes
      • Discuss deployment options of NSX Edge nodes
      • Configure NSX Edge nodes and create NSX Edge clusters
      • Configure Tier-0 and Tier-1 Gateways
      • Examine the single-tier and multitier packet flow
      • Configure static routing and dynamic routing, including BGP and OSPF
      • Enable ECMP on Tier-0 Gateway
      • Describe NSX Edge HA, failure detection, and failback modes
      • Configure VRF Lite

      6  NSX-T Data Center Bridging

      • Describe the function of logical bridging
      • Discuss the logical bridging use cases
      • Compare routing and bridging solutions
      • Explain the components of logical bridging
      • Create bridge clusters and bridge profiles

      7  NSX-T Data Center Firewalls

      • Describe NSX segmentation
      • Identify the steps to enforce Zero-Trust with NSX segmentation
      • Describe the Distributed Firewall architecture, components, and function
      • Configure Distributed Firewall sections and rules
      • Configure the Distributed Firewall on VDS
      • Describe the Gateway Firewall architecture, components, and function
      • Configure Gateway Firewall sections and rules

       

      8  NSX-T Data Center Advanced Threat Prevention

      • Explain NSX IDS/IPS and its use cases
      • Configure NSX IDS/IPS
      • Deploy the NSX Application Platform
      • Identify the components and architecture of NSX Malware Prevention
      • Configure NSX Malware Prevention for east-west and north-south traffic
      • Describe the use cases and architecture of NSX Intelligence
      • Identify the components and architecture of VMware NSX® Network Detection and Response™
      • Use NSX Network Detection and Response to analyze network traffic events

       

      9  NSX-T Data Center Services

      • Describe NSX-T Data Center services
      • Explain and configure Network Address Translation (NAT)
      • Explain and configure DNS and DHCP services
      • Describe VMware NSX® Advanced Load Balancer™ architecture, components, topologies, and use cases.
      • Configure NSX Advanced Load Balancer
      • Discuss the IPSec VPN and L2 VPN function and use cases
      • Configure IPSec VPN and L2 VPN using the NSX Manager UI 

         

         

        10  NSX-T Data Center User and Role Management

        • Describe the function and benefits of VMware Identity Manager™ in NSX-T Data Center
        • Integrate VMware Identity Manager with NSX-T Data Center
        • Integrate LDAP with NSX-T Data Center
        • Identify the various types of users, authentication policies, and permissions
        • Use role-based access control to restrict user access

         

        11  NSX-T Data Center Federation

        • Introduce the NSX-T Data Center Federation key concepts, terminology, and use-cases.
        • Explain the onboarding process of NSX-T Data Center Federation
        • Describe the NSX-T Data Center Federation switching and routing functions.
        • Describe the NSX-T Data Center Federation security concepts

         

        COURSE PREREQUISITES

        • Good understanding of TCP/IP services and protocols
        • Knowledge and working experience of computer networking, including switching and routing technologies (L2-L3) and L2-L7 firewall
        • Knowledge and working experience with VMware vSphere® environments
        • Knowledge and working experience with Kubernetes or vSphere with VMware Tanzu™  environments

        Solid understanding of concepts presented in the following courses:

        • VMware Virtual Cloud Network: Core Technical Skills (Self-paced course)
        • VMware Data Center Virtualization: Core Technical Skills (VMDCVCTS)
        • Kubernetes Fundamentals (VMKFCO)
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