Build your understanding of the concepts behind NSX-T 3.0 and get ready for the VMware VCP-NV exam.
Overview
Syllabus
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
- About this section: vSphere networking
- Virtual networking basics
- vSphere standard switches
- vSphere distributed switches
- Demo: Create a vSphere switch
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Introduction to part seven
- About this section
- Installing NSX Manager
- Demo: Installing NSX Manager
- Demo: Add a compute manager
Taught by
Rick Crisci