Course Details
This comprehensive, fast-paced training course is designed for advanced Cisco network administrators who want a comprehensive understanding of how to use VMware NSX in their enterprise. This course focuses on how to use the NSX network virtualization and security platform. This course covers NSX as a part of the software-defined data center, implementation, use cases, features, and functionality operating at Layer 2 through Layer 7 of the OSI model. Data center network architectures are examined to demonstrate how NSX intersects with and virtualizes functions of a Cisco-based infrastructure in spine-leaf and traditional core-aggregate-access architectures. Lecture and hands-on lab activities support your understanding of NSX features, functionality, and on-going management and control.
Course Prerequisites
- Experienced network administrators or system administrators with a strong background in networking
- Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals course for VCA-DCV certification
Course Agenda
1. Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
2. VMware NSX Components for Management and Control
- Introduction to VMware vSphere virtualization
- Evolution of the software-defined data center
- Introduction to NSX
- VMware NSX Manager
- VMware NSX Controller cluster
3. Logical Switch Network
- Ethernet fundamentals
- Overview of VMware vSphere Distributed Switch
- Link aggregation
- VLAN
- VXLAN: logical switch networks
4. Nexus and UCS Architecture
- Cisco Nexus switching architecture
- Cisco UCS connectivity architecture
- Cisco UCS profiles
5. VMware NSX Routing
- NSX routing
- NSX logical router
- Layer 2 bridging
- NSX Edge services gateway
6. VMware NSX Edge Services Gateway Features
- Network address translation
- Load balancing
- High availability
- NSX Edge and VPN
7. VMware NSX Security
- NSX Edge firewall
- NSX Distributed firewall
- Role-based access control
- Service Composer
- Security Monitoring
8. Extensibility and Design
- NSX API
- NSX and Cisco design options