VMware NSX-T 3.0 Essential Training

1. Networking Fundamentals

• Introduction to part one
• About this section: Network fundamentals
• The OSI model
• Ethernet basics
• Maximum transmission unit (MTU)
• Ethernet broadcasts
• Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
• IP network basics
• ARP: Address Resolution Protocol

2. vSphere 6.7 Virtual Networking Essentials

• About this section: vSphere networking
• Virtual networking basics
• vSphere standard switches
• vSphere distributed switches
• Demo: Create a vSphere switch

3. NSX-T Management and Control Plane

• Introduction to part two
• NSX-T vs. NSX-V
• NSX-T management, control, and data planes
• NSX manager architecture
• NSX controller concepts
• NSX controller plane sharding

4. Preparing Transport Nodes for NSX-T

• NSX-T data plane
• GENEVE and TEPs
• Transport zones
• VLAN transport zone
• Demo: Configure hosts for NSX-T
• Demo: NSX-T VMkernel ports
• Uplinks and teaming
• Demo: TEPs and NIC teaming

5. Logical Switching

• Introduction to part three
• NSX-T logical switching
• vSphere 7, vDS, and N-VDS
• Demo: Create layer-2 segments
• Demo: Configure segment profiles
• NSX controller tables
• Demo: NSX controller tables
• BUM traffic replication
• Demo: Configure BUM traffic replication mode

6. NSX-T 3.0 Routing

• Introduction to part four
• Introduction to NSX-T distributed routing
• NSX-T single-tier routing architecture
• NSX-T multi-tier routing architecture
• Demo: Configure east west routing
• Demo: Configure north south routing
• Demo: Using the CLI to view routes
• Service router active/active availability
• Service router active/standby availability
• Demo: High availability deep dive
• NSX-T Edge Node
• NSX-T routing protocols

7. Section 8: NSX-T Edge Services

• Introduction to part five
• Layer 2 bridging
• Network address translation (NAT)
• Demo: Configuring network address translation (NAT)
• Demo: Reflexive NAT
• DHCP
• Demo: Configure DHCP for NSX-T 3.0
• NSX-T load balancing
• Demo: NSX-T load balancing
• IPSEC VPN
• Demo: IPSEC VPN
• NSX-T Layer 2 VPN

8. Section 9: NSX-T Security

• Introduction to part six
• Understanding NSX-T firewalls
• Demo: Configure the NSX-T distributed firewall
• Demo: NSX-T firewall rules for a three-tier application
• Demo: Configure the NSX-T Edge firewall
• Demo: Configure the NSX-T distributed IDS
• Demo: Configure NSX-T URL analysis
• Network introspection services
• Endpoint protection

9. 1. NSX-T Installation

• Introduction to part seven
• About this section
• Installing NSX Manager
• Demo: Installing NSX Manager
• Demo: Add a compute manager