Course Overview
This five-day, hands-on training course provides the advanced knowledge, skills, and tools to achieve competency in operating and troubleshooting the VMware NSX infrastructure. This course introduces you to workflows of various networking and security constructs along with several operational and troubleshooting tools that help you manage and troubleshoot your VMware NSX environment.
In addition, various types of technical problems are presented to you, which you will identify, analyze, and solve through a systematic process.
What you’ll learn
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- the native tools available in NSX to identify and troubleshoot the problems.
- VMware Aria Operations for Logs and VMware Aria Operations for Networks to identify and troubleshoot problems related to the NSX environment
- the NSX infrastructure components and the communications between them
- analyze, and troubleshoot problems related to the management, control, and data planes in NSX
- analyze, and troubleshoot problems related to infrastructure preparation and VMware NSX Edge deployments
- analyze, and troubleshoot problems related to logical switching and logical routing
- analyze, and troubleshoot network security problems related to the Distributed firewalls, Gateway firewalls, and Distributed IDS/IPS.
- analyze, and troubleshoot problems related to VPN and VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer
- the components and packet flows involved in the NSX datapath and troubleshoot related problems
Requirements
- Before taking this course, you must complete the following course:
- NSX: Install, Configure, Manage [V4.0]
- You should also have understanding or knowledge of these technologies:
- understanding of TCP/IP services and protocols
- and working experience of computer networking and security, including:
- and routing technologies (L2 andL3)
- and application delivery services (L4 through L7)
- (L4 through L7)
- vSphere environments
- The VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization certification is recommended.
Target audiences
- system administrators and network administrators
- and security professionals who work with enterprise networks
Curriculum
- 1 Section
- 9 Lessons
- 5 Days
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- Topics9
- 1.11 Course Introduction and course logistics objectives
- 1.22 NSX Operations and Tools and validate the native troubleshooting tools for NSX syslog, IPFIX, and log collections for the NSX environment NSX with VMware Aria Operations for Logs and VMware Aria Operations for Networks and review the API methods available to configure the NSX environment
- 1.33 Troubleshooting the NSX Management Cluster the NSX Management cluster architecture, components, and communication channels the workflows involved in configuring the NSX Management cluster and troubleshoot the NSX Management cluster formation
- 1.44 Troubleshooting Infrastructure Preparation the data plane architecture, components, and communication channels and troubleshoot VMware ESXi transport node preparation issues and troubleshoot NSX Edge deployment issues
- 1.55 Troubleshooting Logical Switching the architecture of logical switching the modules and processes involved in configuring logical switching the importance of VDS in transport nodes the architecture and workflows involved in attaching workloads to segments and troubleshoot common logical switching issues
- 1.66 Troubleshooting Logical Routing the architecture of logical routing the workflows involved in the configuration of Tier-0 and Tier-1 gateways the high availability modes and validate logical router placements and troubleshoot common logical routing issues using both BGP and OSPF
- 1.77 Troubleshooting Security the architecture of the Distributed Firewall the workflows involved in configuring the Distributed Firewall the architecture of the Gateway Firewall the workflows involved in configuring the Gateway Firewall and troubleshoot common Distributed firewall and Gateway Firewall issues the architecture and workflows involved in configuring Distributed IDS/IPS and troubleshoot common Distributed IDS/IPS problems.
- 1.88 Troubleshooting Services the NSX Advanced Load Balancer architecture and components and troubleshoot common NSX Advanced Load Balancer issues the IPsec and L2 VPN architecture and components and troubleshoot common IPsec and L2 VPN issues
- 1.99 Datapath Walkthrough and validate the path of the packet on the NSX datapath and perform packet captures at various points in the datapath NSX CLI and native hypervisor commands to retrieve configurations involved in the NSX datapath
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