VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage (NSXICM) – Outline

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