This five-day, hands-on training course provides you with the advanced knowledge, skills, and tools to achieve competence in operating and troubleshooting the VMware NSX® 6.4 environment. In this course, you are introduced to several operational, management, and troubleshooting tools. You will be presented with various types of technical problems, which you will identify, analyse, and solve through a systematic process.
VMware is the world leader in server virtualisation technologies. DDLS is a VMware Authorised Training Reseller offering training in VMware and vSphere.
From our state-of-the-art classrooms to telepresence to your offices, our instructor-led training caters to your needs.
Track Record
30 years driving innovative, award-winning learning solutions
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Quality instructors and content
Expert instructors with real world experience and the latest vendor- approved in-depth course content.
Partner-Preferred Supplier
Chosen and awarded by the world’s leading vendors as preferred training partner.
Ahead of the technology curve
No matter your chosen technologies or platforms, we can help you stay one step ahead.
Train Anywhere
From our state-of-the-art classrooms to telepresence to your offices, our instructor-led training caters to your needs.
Track Record
30 years driving innovative, award-winning learning solutions
More Courses, More Often
When you train with DDLS you get more courses, more often, in more locations and from more vendors.
Quality instructors and content
Expert instructors with real world experience and the latest vendor- approved in-depth course content.
Partner-Preferred Supplier
Chosen and awarded by the world’s leading vendors as preferred training partner.
Ahead of the technology curve
No matter your chosen technologies or platforms, we can help you stay one step ahead.
Train Anywhere
From our state-of-the-art classrooms to telepresence to your offices, our instructor-led training caters to your needs.
Track Record
30 years driving innovative, award-winning learning solutions
More Courses, More Often
When you train with DDLS you get more courses, more often, in more locations and from more vendors.
Who is the course for?
Network professionals who work with enterprise networks and VMware Sphere® 6.x.
Course subjects
1. Course Introduction
Introduction and course logistics
Course objectives
Resources and references
Learning paths and certifications
2. Troubleshooting Methodology
Develop a structured troubleshooting approach
Differentiate between symptoms and root causes
Identify and isolate problems residing in various areas
Apply an appropriate methodology and procedure to troubleshooting
3. Troubleshooting and Operating NSX Infrastructure
Describe the NSX infrastructure and component communications
Describe NSX and vSphere distributed switches
Explain VMware NSX® Manager™ to VMware vCenter Server® connectivity
Identify vSphere 6.5 compatibility with NSX 6.3
Explain control plane agent autorecovery
4. Troubleshooting and Operating NSX Logical Switches
Describe the components involved in NSX logical switching
Describe the logical switching control plane operations
Explain the management plane operations and solve NSX Manager issues
Describe user world agents and their functions
Configure vSphere distributed switches for VXLAN
Back up and restore vSphere distributed switch configurations
5. Troubleshooting and Operating NSX Logical Routers
Describe the communications between routing components
Differentiate between the distributed logical router (DLR) and the edge services gateway (ESG)
Describe DLR packet flow
Describe ESG and DLR packet flow with ECMP enabled
Describe the prerequisites for logical routing
Correctly configure the transport zone
Understand the rules of DLR
Describe VMware NSX® Edge™ nodes
6. Troubleshooting and Operating NSX Security Services
Explain the DFW dependency on NSX Manager
Explain how DFW and NSX Edge firewall rules are managed by NSX Manager
Explain the architecture of guest introspection with third-party devices
Understand VMware Tools™ and the NSX thin agent
Explain how NSX service chaining dynamically responds to changing security conditions
Describe automated security operations
Explain how DFW, the filtering module, and the traffic redirection modules work together
Describe the changes in the DFW packet log format
7. Troubleshooting and Operating NSX Edge Services
Use the GUI and the CLI to verify DHCP relay configuration
Verify the settings of a DHCP server
Describe the SSL VPN-Plus remote access solution available on ESG
Describe the L2 VPN features and explain how they work
Properly configure L2 VPN service
Configure the SSL VPN-Plus server and clients
Properly configure IPsec VPN tunnels between sites
Use the GUI, CLI commands, and logs to examine IPsec VPN tunnel status and statistics
Differentiate between L4 and L7 load balancing
Explain how high availability works
Analyse common high-availability configuration issues and provide solutions
8. vRealize Operational Tools for NSX Operations Management
Discuss NSX operational requirements and tools overview
Introduce vRealize Network Insight
Introduce VMware vRealize® Log Insight™ Content Pack for VMware NSX
Introduce VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™ Content Pack for VMware NSX
Prerequisites
Knowledge and working experience of computer networking, including:
Switching and routing technologies (L2-3)
Network and application delivery services (L4-7)
Knowledge and working experience of vSphere
Knowledge and working experience of NSX installation, configuration, management, and operations
Before taking this course, you ought to take either the VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage course or the VMware NSX for Internetworking Experts Fast Track course.
The VMware Certified Professional 6 - Network Virtualisation (VCP6-NV) certification is recommended.
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