VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage


Course Number: VM-106
Duration: 5 days (32.5 hours)
Format: Live, hands-on

VMware NSX Training Overview

This VMware NSX training teaches attendees how to install, configure, and manage a VMware NSX® environment. Participants learn how to leverage the key features and functionality offered in NSX, including infrastructure, logical switching, logical routing, networking and security services, firewalls, advanced threat prevention, and more.

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Objectives

  • Describe the architecture and main components of NSX
  • Explain the features and benefits of NSX
  • Deploy the NSX Management cluster and VMware NSX Edge™ nodes
  • Prepare VMware ESXi™ hosts to participate in NSX 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
  • 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

Prerequisites

  • Good understanding of TCP/IP services and protocols
  • Knowledge and working experience in computer networking, including switching and routing technologies (L2 through L3) and L2 through L7 firewall
  • Knowledge and working experience with VMware vSphere® environments
  • Knowledge and working experience with Kubernetes or VMware vSphere® with VMware Tanzu® environments
  • Solid understanding of concepts presented in the following courses: VMware Virtual Cloud Network Core Technical Skills, VMware Data Center Virtualization: Core Technical Skills, and Kubernetes Fundamentals

Outline

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Introduction
VMware Virtual Cloud Network and VMware NSX
  • Introduce the VMware Virtual Cloud Network vision
  • Describe the NSX product portfolio
  • Discuss NSX features, use cases, and benefits
  • Explain NSX architecture and components
  • Explain the management, control, data, and consumption planes and their functions
Preparing the NSX Infrastructure
  • Deploy VMware NSX® ManagerTM nodes on ESXi hypervisors
  • Navigate through the NSX UI
  • Explain data plane components such as N-VDS/VDS, transport nodes, transport zones, profiles, and more
  • Perform transport node preparation and configure the data plane infrastructure
  • Verify transport node status and connectivity
  • Explain DPU-based acceleration in NSX
  • Install NSX using DPUs
NSX 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 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
NSX 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 single-tier and multitier packet flows
  • Configure static routing and dynamic routing, including BGP and OSPF
  • Enable ECMP on a Tier-0 gateway
  • Describe NSX Edge HA, failure detection, and failback modes
  • Configure VRF Lite
NSX 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
NSX 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
NSX Advanced Threat Prevention
  • Explain NSX IDS/IPS and its use cases
  • Configure NSX IDS/IPS
  • Deploy 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 VMware 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
NSX 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 UI
NSX User and Role Management
  • Describe the function and benefits of VMware Identity Manager™ in NSX
  • Integrate VMware Identity Manager with NSX
  • Integrate LDAP with NSX
  • Identify the various types of users, authentication policies, and permissions
  • Use role-based access control to restrict user access
  • Explain object-based access control in NSX
NSX Federation
  • Introduce the NSX Federation key concepts, terminology, and use cases
  • Explain the onboarding process of NSX Federation
  • Describe the NSX Federation switching and routing functions
  • Describe the NSX Federation security concepts
Conclusion

Training Materials

All attendees receive the official VMware courseware for this course.

Software Requirements

A modern web browser and an Internet connection free of restrictive firewalls, so that the student can connect by SSH and Remote Desktop (RDP) into the virtual environment for the training.



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