Overview
This five-day, hands-on training course provides you with the advanced knowledge, skills, and tools to achieve competency in operating and troubleshooting the VMware NSX-T™ Data Center environment. In this course, you are introduced to workflows of various networking and security constructs along with several operational and troubleshooting tools that help you manage and troubleshoot your NSX-T Data Center.
In addition, you are presented with various types of technical problems, which you will identify, analyze, and solve through a systematic process.
Product Alignment
• NSX-T Data Center 3.0
Prerequisites
- Before taking this course, you should have completed the VMware NSX-T Data Center: Install, Configure, Manage [V3.0] course.
You should also have the following understanding or knowledge:
- Good understanding of TCP/IP services and protocols
- Knowledge and working experience of computer networking, including:
- Switching and routing technologies (L2-L3)
- Network and application delivery services (L4-L7)
- Knowledge and working experience of VMware vSphere® environments and KVM-based environments
The VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization (2020) certification is recommended.
Who Should Attend?
- Experienced system administrators and network administrators
- Network and security professionals who work with enterprise and data center networks
Course Outline
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
- Explain and validate the native troubleshooting tools (dashboards, traceflow, port mirroring) for the NSX-T Data Center environment
- Configure syslog, IPFIX, and log collections for the NSX-T Data Center environment
- Integrate NSX-T Data Center with vRealize Log Insight and vRealize Network Insight
- Validate and review the APIs methods available to configure the NSX-T Data Center environment
- 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
- Describe the data plane architecture, components, and communication channels
- Explain and troubleshoot VMware ESXi™ transport node preparation issues
- Explain and troubleshoot KVM transport node preparation issues
- Explain and troubleshoot VMware NSX® Edge™ transport node preparation issues
- Understand the architecture of logical switching
- List the modules and processes involved in configuring logical switching
- Explain the importance of N-VDS and VDS in transport nodes
- Review the architecture and workflows involved in configuring
- Identify and troubleshoot common logical switching issues
- Review the architecture of logical routing and NSX Edge nodes
- Explain the workflows involved in the configuration of Tier-0 and Tier-1 gateways
- Explain the HA modes and logical router placements
- Identify and troubleshoot common logical routing issues
- 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 load balancer architecture and components
- Identify and troubleshoot common load balancing issues
- Review of IPsec and L2 VPN architecture and components
- Identify and troubleshoot common IPsec and L2 VPN issues
- Verify and validate the path of the packet on the NSX-T datapath (East-West and North-South)
- Identify and perform packet captures at various points in the datapath
- Use nsxcli to retrieve configurations involved in the NSX-T datapath
