Detailed Course Outline
Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
Software-Defined Data Center
- Describe the evolution of the software-defined data center
- Describe VMware vSphere®
- Describe VMware NSX
Management and Control Plane Components
- Understand the management, control, and data planes
- Describe VMware NSX® Manager™
- Describe the VMware NSX® Controller™ cluster
Logical Switch Networks
- Describe Ethernet fundamentals
- Describe VMware vSphere® Distributed Switch™
- Describe switch link aggregation
- Describe VLAN
- Describe VXLAN logical switch networks
- Describe VMware NSX Controller replication
VMware NSX Logical Routing
- Discuss routing protocols
- Describe the VMware NSX logical router
- Describe the NSX Edge services gateway
VMware NSX L2 Bridging
- Understand L2 bridging and use cases
- Describe L2 software bridging
- Describe L2 hardware bridging
NSX Edge Gateway Services
- Describe network address translation
- Describe load balancing
- Describe high availability
- Describe virtual private networking
- Configure L2 VPN
- Configure IPsec VPN
- Configure SSL VPN-Plus
VMware NSX Firewall and Security Services
- Describe the NSX Edge firewall
- Describe the VMware NSX distributed firewall
- Describe VMware NSX data security
- Describe the Service Composer
- Describe the identity-aware firewall
Cross-vCenter VMware NSX
- Understand the cross-vCenter VMware NSX feature
- Identify the benefits of the cross-vCenter VMware NSX feature
- Configure the cross-vCenter VMware NSX feature
- Discuss the deployment models for cross-vCenter VMware NSX