DURATION: 5 days (~40 hours)
COURSE INTRODUCTION
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® 6.2 environment. In this course, you will be presented with various types of technical problems. You will learn how to identify the problems and solve them through a systematic process. You will also learn about several operational, management, and troubleshooting tools.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
After finish the course, student will have knowledges and skills to:
- Establish and apply a structured troubleshooting approach and methodology
- Troubleshoot VMware NSX infrastructure and component issues
- Troubleshoot physical and logical networking issues involving switching and routing
- Troubleshoot advanced edge services
- Troubleshoot network security issues
- Use relevant tools to monitor, operate, and troubleshoot VMware NSX deployments
AUDIENCE
Network professionals who work with enterprise networks and VMware Sphere®
PREREQUISITES
This course requires understanding the concepts and topics presented in the following courses:
COMPLETION CERTIFICATE
After finish the course, student will receive completion certificate issued by SmartPro.
COURSE CONTENT
Module 1: Course Introduction
- Introduction and course logistics
- Course objectives
- Resources and references
- Learning paths and certifications
Module 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
Module 3: Troubleshooting and Operating NSX Infrastructure
- Describe the NSX infrastructure and component communications
- Discuss common VMware NSX® Controller™ deployment problems
- Install NSX components for host preparation
- Troubleshoot host preparation problems
- Troubleshoot management and control plane synchronization problems
- Introduce the NSX central CLI
Module 4: Troubleshooting and Operating NSX Logical Switches
- Describe the VXLAN architecture
- Create logical switches
- Troubleshoot the logical switch control plane and the data plane
- Use the central CLI to troubleshoot logical switch problems
Module 5: Troubleshooting and Operating NSX Logical Routers
- Describe the NSX logical routing architecture
- Understand logical routing prerequisites
- Understand the VMware NSX® Manager™ plug-in for VMware NSX® Edge™
- Gather logical routing information for operations and troubleshooting
- Explain the logical routing subsystem
- Use the CLI to troubleshoot problems related to the controller and the control VM
- Troubleshoot routing subsystem component failures
- Use tools such as logs and packet capture to identify and solve routing problems
Module 6: Troubleshooting and Operating NSX Security Services
- Discuss the NSX distributed firewall components and communication channels
- Validate and troubleshoot distributed firewall configurations
- Understand the SpoofGuard and identity firewall functions
- Discuss distributed firewall thresholds, availability, and operations
- Discuss Service Composer components and troubleshoot Service Composer problems
- Explain Guest Introspection architecture, components, and deployment details
- Discuss third-party integration and automation
- Understand the distributed firewall monitoring and logging architecture
- Use the CLI to troubleshoot edge services gateway firewall operations
Module 7: Troubleshooting and Operating NSX Edge Services
- Identify and troubleshoot NSX Edge high availability models
- Understand ECMP and handle routing failures
- Troubleshoot edge services such as DHCP and DNS
- Troubleshoot various types of VPN services
- Discuss and troubleshoot common load-balancing problems
- Use the coredump tool in problem solving
Module 8: vRealize Operational Tools for NSX Operations Management
- Discuss NSX operational requirements and tools overview
- Introduce vRealize Network Insight
- Introduce vRealize Log Insight Content Pack for VMware NSX
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