Information Technology

VMware NSX-T Data Center: Troubleshooting and Operations [V3.2]

Instructor-Led 9 Agenda

Description

This five-day, hands-on training course provides the advanced knowledge, skills, and tools to achieve competency in operating and troubleshooting the VMware NSX-T™ Data Center environment. In this course, you are introduced to workflows of various networking and security constructs along with several operational and troubleshooting tools that help you manage and troubleshoot your NSX-T Data Center environment. In addition, you are presented with various types of technical problems, which you will identify, analyze, and solve through a systematic process.

Course Overview

Course Objective

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives: Use the native tools available in NSX-T Data Center to identify and troubleshoot the problems related to the NSX-T Data Center environment Use VMware vRealize® Log Insight™ and VMware vRealize® Network Insight™ to identify and troubleshoot the problems related to the NSX-T Data Center environment Explain the NSX-T Data Center infrastructure components and the communications between them Identify, analyze, and troubleshoot problems related to the management, control, and data planes in NSX-T Data Center Identify, analyze, and troubleshoot problems related to infrastructure preparation in NSX-T Data Center Identify, analyze, and troubleshoot problems related to logical switching and logical routing in NSX-T Data Center Identify, analyze, and troubleshoot network security problems related to the NSX-T Data Center Distributed and Gateway firewalls Identify, analyze, and troubleshoot problems related to VPN and the VMware NSX® Advanced Load Balancer™ Identify the components and packet flows involved in the NSX-T Data Center datapath and troubleshoot related problems

Who Should Attend

Experienced system administrators and network administrators Network and security professionals who work with enterprise and data center networks

Course Introduction Lesson Id 1

Course Introduction

NSX-T Data Center Operations and Tools Lesson Id 2

NSX-T Data Center Operations and Tools

Troubleshooting the NSX Management Cluster Lesson Id 3

Troubleshooting the NSX Management Cluster

Troubleshooting Infrastructure Preparation Lesson Id 4

Troubleshooting Infrastructure Preparation

Troubleshooting Logical Switching Lesson Id 5

Troubleshooting Logical Switching

Troubleshooting Logical Routing Lesson Id 6

Troubleshooting Logical Routing

Troubleshooting Security Lesson Id 7

Troubleshooting Security

Troubleshooting the NSX Advanced Load Balancer and VPN Services Lesson Id 8

Troubleshooting the NSX Advanced Load Balancer and VPN Services

Datapath Walkthrough Lesson Id 9

Datapath Walkthrough

Lesson Id	Title	Description
1	Course Introduction	Introduction and course logistics<br />Course objectives
2	NSX-T Data Center Operations and Tools	Explain and validate the native troubleshooting tools (dashboards, Traceflow, live traffic analysis, port mirroring) for the NSX-T Data Center environment<br />Configure syslog, IPFIX, and log collections for the NSX-T Data Center environment<br />Integrate NSX-T Data Center with vRealize Log Insight and vRealize Network Insight<br />Validate and review the API methods available to configure the NSX-T Data Center environment
3	Troubleshooting the NSX Management Cluster	Describe the NSX Management cluster architecture, components, and communication channels<br />Identify the workflows involved in configuring the NSX Management cluster<br />Validate and troubleshoot the NSX Management cluster formation
4	Troubleshooting Infrastructure Preparation	Describe the data plane architecture, components, and communication channels<br />Explain and troubleshoot VMware ESXi™ transport node preparation issues<br />Explain and troubleshoot KVM transport node preparation issues<br />Explain and troubleshoot VMware NSX® Edge™ transport node preparation issue
5	Troubleshooting Logical Switching	Describe the architecture of logical switching<br />List the modules and processes involved in configuring logical switching<br />Explain the importance of N-VDS and VDS in transport nodes<br />Describe the procedure to migrate from N-VDS to VDS<br />Review the architecture and workflows involved in attaching workloads to segments<br />Identify and troubleshoot common logical switching issues
6	Troubleshooting Logical Routing	Review the architecture of logical routing and NSX Edge nodes<br />Explain the workflows involved in the configuration of Tier-0 and Tier-1 gateways<br />Explain the high availability modes and validate logical router placements<br />Identify and troubleshoot common logical routing issues using both BGP and OSPF
7	Troubleshooting Security	Review the architecture of the Distributed Firewall<br />Explain the workflows involved in configuring the Distributed Firewall<br />Review the architecture of the Gateway Firewall<br />Explain the workflows involved in configuring the Gateway Firewall<br />Identify and troubleshoot common distributed firewall and Gateway Firewall issues
8	Troubleshooting the NSX Advanced Load Balancer and VPN Services	Review the NSX Advanced Load Balancer architecture and components<br />Identify and troubleshoot common NSX Advanced Load Balancer issues<br />Review of IPsec and L2 VPN architecture and components<br />Identify and troubleshoot common IPsec and L2 VPN issues
9	Datapath Walkthrough	Verify and validate the path of the packet on the NSX datapath (East-West and South-North)<br />Identify and perform packet captures at various points in the datapath<br />Use NSX CLI and native hypervisor commands to retrieve configurations involved in the NSX datapath