This hands-on training course provides the advanced knowledge, skills, and tools to competently operate and troubleshoot 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 for you to identify, analyze, and solve through a systematic process.
VMware Exam is $450 (before GST)
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Use the native tools available in NSX to identify and troubleshoot problems
- Use VMware Aria Operations for Logs and VMware Aria Operations for Networks to identify and troubleshoot problems related to the NSX environment
- Explain NSX infrastructure components and communications between them
- Identify, analyze, and troubleshoot problems related to management, control, and data planes in NSX
- Identify, analyze, and troubleshoot problems related to infrastructure preparation and VMware NSX® Edge™ deployments
- Identify, analyze, and troubleshoot problems related to logical switching and logical routing
- Identify, analyze, and troubleshoot network security problems related to Distributed Firewalls, Gateway Firewalls, and Distributed IDS/IPS.
- Identify, analyze, and troubleshoot problems related to VPN and VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer
- Identify the components and packet flows involved in the NSX datapath and troubleshoot related problems
Course Outline
Lesson 1: Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
Lesson 2: NSX Operations and Tools
- Explain and validate the native troubleshooting tools for NSX
- Configure syslog, IPFIX, and log collections for the NSX environment
- Integrate NSX with VMware Aria Operations for Logs and VMware Aria Operations for Networks
- Validate and review the API methods available to configure the NSX environment
Lesson 3: Troubleshooting the NSX Management Cluster
- Describe the NSX Management cluster architecture, components, and communication channels
- Identify the workflows involved in configuring the NSX Management cluster
- Validate and troubleshoot the NSX Management cluster formation
Lesson 4: Troubleshooting Infrastructure Preparation
- Describe the data plane architecture, components, and communication channels
- Explain and troubleshoot VMware ESXi™ transport node preparation issues
- Explain and troubleshoot NSX Edge deployment issue
Lesson 5: Troubleshooting Logical Switching
- Describe the architecture of logical switching
- List the modules and processes involved in configuring logical switching
- Explain the importance of VDS in transport nodes
- Review the architecture and workflows involved in attaching workloads to segments
- Identify and troubleshoot common logical switching issues
Lesson 6: Troubleshooting Logical Routing
- Review the architecture of logical routing
- Explain the workflows involved in the configuration of Tier-0 and Tier-1 gateways
- Explain the high availability modes and validate logical router placements
- Identify and troubleshoot common logical routing issues using both BGP and OSPF
Lesson 7: Troubleshooting Security
- Review the architecture of the Distributed Firewall
- Explain the workflows involved in configuring the Distributed Firewall
- Review the architecture of the Gateway Firewall
- Explain the workflows involved in configuring the Gateway Firewall
- Identify and troubleshoot common Distributed Firewall and Gateway Firewall issues
- Review the architecture and workflows involved in configuring Distributed IDS/IPS
- Identify and troubleshoot common Distributed IDS/IPS problems
Lesson 8: Troubleshooting the NSX Advanced Load Balancer and VPN Services
- Review NSX Advanced Load Balancer architecture and components
- Identify and troubleshoot common NSX Advanced Load Balancer issues
- Review the IPsec and L2 VPN architecture and components
- Identify and troubleshoot common IPsec and L2 VPN issues
Lesson 9: Datapath Walkthrough
- Verify and validate the path of the packet on the NSX datapath
- Identify and perform packet captures at various points in the datapath
- Use NSX CLI and native hypervisor commands to retrieve configurations involved in the NSX datapath
