VMWARE VIRTUAL CLOUD NETWORK - CORE TECHNICAL SKILLS

Overview

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The Virtual Cloud Network: Core Technical Skills self-paced course targets candidates who are new to the industry or entry-level employees looking for opportunities to advance their knowledge, skills, and understanding of VMware NSX®, which is the VMware network virtualization platform. Through a series of targeted, self-paced modules, the student will learn how to perform standard and typically repeated tasks that are delegated by an administrator to an operator or junior administrator.

Objectives       

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
•  Explain the basic concepts and features of the software-defined data center and VMware vSphere®
•  Define network virtualization and software-defined networking
•  Describe the features, components, and basic architecture of VMware NSX-T™ Data Center
•  Describe the networking and security capabilities of NSX-T Data Center, including switching, routing, and
firewalling
•  Explain the implementation of networking services such as DHCP, DNS, NAT, load balancing, and VPNs
in NSX-T Data Center
•  Monitor the NSX components and objects from the NSX user interface
•  Explain the VMware Virtual Cloud Network vision

Intended Audience         

This course is for network and security operators that work with enterprise networks and VMware vSphere®, and want to learn about NSX-T Data Center.

Prerequisites 

The course content assumes minimal work experience in the following areas:
•  0-6 months of hands-on experience operating VMware vSphere and physical networks.
•  An understanding of basic hardware, network, and storage concepts.

Outline    

1  Software-Defined Data Center
•  Identify types of virtualization used in a software-defined data center
•  Recognize the components of an SDDC
•  Describe the relationship between vSphere, the SDDC, and cloud computing

2  VMware SDDC Solutions
•  Identify VMware solutions that integrate with vSphere in SDDC

3  VMware vSphere Components and Features
•  Identify the functions of the components in a vSphere environment
•  Describe the vSphere features and their benefits

4  Network Virtualization
•  Describe the importance of network virtualization for the IT industry
•  Describe network virtualization and its implementation
•  Identify the benefits of network virtualization

5  Virtual Switches Overview
•  Define virtual networking
•  Describe a virtual switch and its components
•  Explain how virtual switches connect VMs and VMware ESXi™ hosts to the network

6  vSphere Standard Switches
•  Identify characteristics of vSphere standard switches
•  View components and properties of a standard switch configuration

7  vSphere Distributed Switches
•  Describe the benefits of vSphere distributed switches
•  Compare distributed and standard switches
•  View a distributed switch configuration in the vSphere Client

8  Management, Control and Data Plane
•  Identify the different layers of networking planes
•  List the functions of each networking plane

9  Software Defined Networking
•  Describe the software-defined networking approach to control network traffic
•  Compare traditional networking to software-defined networking
•  Describe the software-defined networking architecture
•  Discuss the benefits of software-defined networking for today’s IT services and applications

10  Introduction to NSX-T Data Center
•  Describe the features and benefits of NSX-T Data Center
•  Describe the use cases for NSX-T Data Center

11  NSX-T Data Center Components
•  Identify the components in an NSX-T Data Center environment
•  Describe the function of each NSX-T Data Center component

12  NSX-T Data Center Architecture
•  Describe the NSX-T Data Center architecture
•  Use the NSX-T Data Center user interface to validate its components

13  Benefits of NSX-T Data Center Logical Switching
•  Describe the challenges of traditional data center switching
•  Describe the benefits of NSX-T Data Center logical switching

14  NSX Logical Switching Components
•  Describe the components and functions of the NSX-T Data Center segments
•  Identify the differences between the types of transport zones and segments

15  NSX Logical Switching
•  Describe the end-to-end logical switching communication in VMware NSX-T Data Center
•  Connect workloads to an existing segment and check connectivity

16  Benefits of NSX-T Data Center Logical Routing
•  Describe the challenges of traditional data center routing
•  Identify the benefits of NSX-T Data Center logical routing

17  NSX Routing Components
•  Describe the components and functions of NSX-T Data Center logical routing
•  Identify the logical routing topologies that are available in NSX-T Data Center

18  NSX Logical Routing
•  Recognize the use cases for NSX logical routing
•  Connect segments to a Tier-1 gateway and verify connectivity between different segments
•  Connect a Tier-1 gateway to a Tier-0 gateway and verify external connectivity

19  Micro-segmentation
•  Describe micro-segmentation
•    Identify the use cases for micro-segmentation
•    List the benefits of micro-segmentation

20  Zero-Trust Security
•  Implement the Zero-Trust approach for security by using micro-segmentation

21  NSX Data Center Firewalls
•  Differentiate between gateway and distributed firewalls
•  Identify preconfigured firewall rules from the NSX UI
•  Validate preconfigured firewall rules from the NSX UI

22  NSX DHCP
•  Describe DHCP and its use cases
•  Implement DHCP in VMware NSX-T™ Data Center

23  NSX DNS
•  Describe DNS and its use cases
•  Implement DNS in VMware NSX-T™ Data Center

24  NSX NAT
•  Describe NAT and its use cases
•  Implement NAT in VMware NSX-T™ Data Center

25  NSX Load Balancing
•  Describe load balancing and its use cases
•  Implement load balancing in VMware NSX-T™ Data Center

26  NSX VPNs
•  Describe VPN technologies and their use cases
•  Implement VPN technologies in VMware NSX-T™ Data Center

27  Virtual Cloud Network
•  Explain the VMware Virtual Cloud framework
•  Describe the VMware Virtual Cloud product portfolio, its benefits and use cases