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Course Outline

1  Course Introduction
•  Introductions and course logistics
•  Review course objectives2  Introduction to vSphere Networking
•  Describe VMware vSphere® networking components
•  Describe vSphere standard switches
•  Describe vSphere distributed switches3  Introduction to NSX
•  Describe the benefits of NSX
•  Identify NSX key use cases4  NSX Architecture
•  Describe the NSX architecture
•  Describe the cloud management, management, control, and data planes of NSX
•  Identify the component interactions
•  Describe the VMware NSX® Controller™ cluster and its functions
•  Explain the NSX Controller workload distribution

5  NSX Infrastructure Preparation
•  Explain the steps required for an NSX installation
•  Describe what is involved in planning an NSX deployment
•  Describe the NSX Controller cluster and deployment
•  Describe NSX Controller cluster high availability and load distribution
•  Explain how to deploy and configure the NSX Controller cluster
•  Explain the workflow involved in host preparation

6  NSX Logical Switch Networks
•  Explain transport zones, VXLANs, and VXLAN tunnel end points (VTEPs)
•  Describe the procedure for preparing the infrastructure for virtual networking
•  Describe the configuration of vSphere distributed switches for VXLAN
•  Identify the components involved in NSX logical switching
•  Define VLANs for VXLAN

7  NSX Logical Routing
•  Explain the east-west and north-south routing concepts
•  Define the NSX distributed logical router
•  Explain the logical router, interfaces, and interface addresses
•  Describe the management and control plane interaction
•  Describe logical router deployment models and two-tier routing for east-west traffic
•  Explain the common topologies of an NSX Edge services gateway

8  Advanced NSX Logical Routing
•  Describe how routers connect remote networks
•  Explain route redistribution methods
•  Describe less-than-or-equal (LE) and greater-than-or-equal (GE) configurations
•  Describe routing event notification enhancements
•  Configure equal-cost multipath (ECMP) routing
•  Describe high availability for NSX Edge service gateways

9  NSX L2 Bridging
•  Explain L2 bridging use cases
•  Describe software and hardware L2 bridging between VXLAN and VLANs
•  Discuss L2 bridging packet flows

10  NSX Edge Services
•  Describe the NSX Edge Services
•  Explain how Network Address Translation (NAT) works
•  Explain NAT64
•  Explain the function of load balancing
•  Explain one-armed and inline load-balancing architectures
•  Explain the DHCP and DNS services for NSX Edge

11  NSX Edge VPN Services
•  Describe the NSX Edge VPN services
•  Describe the VPN use cases
•  Configure a L2 VPN on an NSX Edge instance
•  Configure an NSX Edge instance for IPsec VPN services
•  Explain NSX Edge SSL VPN-Plus services
•  Configure NSX Edge SSL VPN-Plus server settings

12  NSX Security Services
•  Describe the policy enforcement of the distributed firewall
•  Describe virtualization context-awareness
•  Explain custom network and security containers
•  Describe the architecture of an NSX Edge firewall
•  Explain DHCP snooping
•  Explain ARP snooping

13  NSX Advanced Security Services
•  Describe NSX SpoofGuard
•  Identify how tags enable dynamic security service chains
•  Explain Service Composer groups, policies, and tags
•  Describe the Identity Firewall architecture
•  Explain Application Rule Manager
•  Explain how to create a monitoring session

14  NSX Introspection Services
•  Describe the types of introspection services
•  Describe the installation and configuration of Guest and Network Introspection
•  Summarize Guest and Network Introspection alarms, events, and audit messages

15  Cross-vCenter NSX
•  Describe cross-vCenter features and use cases
•  Identify VMware NSX® Manager™ roles and NSX Controller cluster placement
•  Deploy universal logical networks
•  Explain the design considerations for cross-vCenter NSX

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