Experienced system or network administrators.

• Understanding of enterprise switching and routing
• Knowledge of TCP/IP services
• Experience with firewalls and firewall rule sets
• Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals course or VCA-DCV certification

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
• Describe the evolution of the software-defined data center
• Configure and deploy VMware NSX components for management and control
• Describe basic VMware NSX layer 2 networking
• Configure, deploy, and use logical switch networks
• Configure and deploy VMware NSX distributed router appliances to establish east-west connectivity
• Configure and deploy VMware NSX® Edge™ services gateway appliances to establish north-south connectivity
• Configure VMware NSX L2 bridging
• Configure and use all main features of the NSX Edge services gateway
• Configure NSX Edge firewall rules to restrict network traffic
• Configure VMware NSX distributed firewall rules to restrict network traffic
• Configure Service Composer policies
• Configure an identity-aware firewall
• Describe VMware NSX data security
• Use the cross-vCenter VMware NSX feature

Module 1: Course introduction

• Introductions and course logistics

Module 2: Software-defined data center

• Describe the evolution of the software-defined data center

• Describe VMware vSphere®

• Describe VMware NSX

Module 3: Management and control plane components

• Understand the management, control, and data planes

• Describe VMware® NSX Manager™

• Describe the VMware® NSX Controller™ Cluster

Module 4: 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

Module 5: VMware NSX logical routing

• Discuss routing protocols

• Describe the VMware NSX logical router

• Describe the NSX Edge services gateway

Module 6: VMware NSX L2 bridging

• Understand L2 bridging and use cases

• Describe L2 software bridging

• Describe L2 hardware bridging

Module 7: 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

Module 8: 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

Module 9: 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

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