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- Formats:
Classroom,
Live Online,
Onsite
- Length: 5 Days
Overview:
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® 6.3 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 be introduced to several operational, management, and troubleshooting tools.
Product Alignment
• NSX 6.3
• VMware vRealize® Log Insight™ 4.3
• VMware vRealize® Network Insight™ 3.3
• VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™ 6.5
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| Objectives: |
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By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
• Establish and apply a structured approach and methodology for troubleshooting
• Troubleshoot NSX infrastructure and component problems
• Troubleshoot physical and logical networking problems involving switching and routing
• Troubleshoot advanced edge services
• Troubleshoot network security problems
• Use tools to monitor, operate, and troubleshoot NSX deployments
Certifications
This course prepares you for the following certification:
• VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Network Virtualization Deployment (VCAP6-NV Deploy) |
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| Intended Audience: |
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Network professionals who work with enterprise networks and VMware Sphere® |
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| Prerequisites: |
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• Understanding of layers 2 through 3 networking protocols, and switching and routing methodology
• Understanding of layers 4 through 7 network services
• Understanding of the concepts presented in the VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage course or the
VMware NSX for Internetworking Experts Fast Track course, or equivalent networking and vSphere
experience
VCP6-NV certification is recommended. |
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| Outline: |
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- Course Introduction
- Introduction and course logistics
- Course objectives
- Resources and references
- Learning paths and certifications
- 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
- 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
- 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 VMware NSX® Manager™ problems
- Configure vSphere distributed switches for VXLAN
- Troubleshoot NSX Controller problems related to logical switching
- Troubleshoot virtual machine connectivity problems
- Troubleshooting and Operating NSX Logical Routers
- Describe the communications between routing components
- Distinguish between the distributed logical router (DLR) and the edges services gateway and their purposes
- Describe DLR packet flow
- Configure the transport zone
- Describe VMware NSX® Edge™ nodes
- Troubleshooting and Operating NSX Security Services
- Describe the distributed firewall (DFW) components and explain how they communicate with each other
- Explain how the DFW and NSX Edge firewall rules are managed by NSX Manager
- Describe the Service Composer architecture
- Explain the architecture of Guest Introspection with third-party devices
- Explain how NSX service chaining dynamically responds to changing security conditions
- Explain how the DFW, the filtering module, and traffic redirection modules work together
- Troubleshooting and Operating NSX Edge Services
- Use the GUI and CLI commands to verify the DHCP relay configuration
- Configure SSL VPN-Plus server and clients
- Use GUI and CLI commands to verify SSL VPN-Plus session details
- Troubleshoot common SSL VPN-Plus problems
- Configure L2 VPN service
- Capture L2 VPN packets for troubleshooting and analysis
- Use GUI and CLI commands to verify L2 VPN configuration settings, policies, mapping tables, and operational status
- Configure IPsec VPN tunnels between sites
- Use logging to troubleshoot IPsec VPN issues
- Perform a packet walk in a hub-and-spoke IPsec VPN environment
- Describe the logical load-balancing featuresAnalyze common high availability configuration problems and provide solutions
- vRealize Operational Tools for NSX Operations Management
- Describe some common network operation challenges and misconceptions
- Discuss the architecture and components of vRealize Network Insight
- Explain how to use vRealize Network Insight to identify and troubleshoot network problems in a data center
- Monitor the network health, using dashboards, widgets, and alerts
- Retrieve network statistics, network flow information, packet information, and NSX system events
- Investigate root causes of problems and troubleshoot based on log analysis
- Identify how to use vRealize Operations Manager to visualize all NSX networking services deployed in each vSphere cluster
- Create templates to generate reports for NSX for vSphere objects
- Describe the creation of custom dashboards for NSX
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