This five-day, fast-paced course provides comprehensive training on how to install, configure, and manage a VMware NSX-T™ Data Center environment. This course covers key NSX-T Data Center features and functionality offered in the NSX-T Data Center 3.0 release, including the overall infrastructure, logical switching, logical routing, networking and security services, micro-segmentation, and firewalls, and more.

Access to a software-defined data center environment is provided through hands-on labs to reinforce the skills and concepts presented in the course.

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• Describe VMware Virtual Cloud Network and the NSX-T Data Center architecture
• Describe the NSX-T Data Center components and main functions
• Explain the NSX-T Data Center key features and benefits
• Deploy and configure NSX-T Data Center infrastructure
• Configure layer 2 logical switching and bridging
• Explain the tiered routing architecture and configure gateways
• Configure advanced services such as VPN and load balancing
• Describe the NSX-T Data Center security model with micro-segmentation
• Configure Distributed Firewall and Gateway Firewall to protect east-west and north-south traffic
• Explain advanced security enforcement with URL analysis, IDS, and partner service insertion
• Integrate VMware Identity Manager™ or LDAP with NSX-T Data Center and configure role-based access control
• Describe NSX-T Data Center Federation use-cases and architecture for switching, routing, and security

• Course Introduction
• Introductions and course logistics
• VMware Virtual Cloud Network and NSX-T Data Center
• Introduce VMware’s Virtual Cloud Network vision
• Deployment Preparing the NSX-T Data Center Infrastructure
• NSX-T Data Center Logical Switching
• NSX-T Data Center Logical Routing
• NSX-T Data Center Bridging
• NSX-T Data Center Security
• NSX-T Data Center Services
• NSX-T Data Center Monitoring
• NSX-T Data Center User and Role Management
• NSX-T Data Center Federation

Experienced system administrators or network administrators

Good understanding of TCP/IP services and network security and working experience with firewalls
Working experience of enterprise switching and routing 
Solid understanding of concepts presented in the following courses:

• VMware Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals
• VMware Introduction to Network Virtualization with NSX
• VMware Network Virtualization Fundamentals