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VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer: ICM plus Troubleshooting and Operations Fast Track [V20.x]

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VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer: ICM plus Troubleshooting and Operations Fast Track [V20.x]

This five-day, extended hour course introduces you to advanced VMware NSX® Advanced Load Balancer™ (Avi) solutions management skills. In this course, you will learn to install, configure, and...

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$6,475 USD

Course Code EDU-NSXALBICMTOFT20

Duration 5 days

Available Formats Classroom, Virtual

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Jun 24, 2024 - Jun 28, 2024 (5 days)

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Sep 30, 2024 - Oct 4, 2024 (5 days)

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This five-day, extended hour course introduces you to advanced VMware NSX® Advanced Load Balancer™ (Avi) solutions management skills. In this course, you will learn to install, configure, and manage a VMware NSX® Advanced Load Balancer™ solution. Also, you will learn advanced knowledge, skills, and tools to achieve competence in operating and troubleshooting the NSX Advanced Load Balancer solutions.

This course covers key NSX Advanced Load Balancer features, functionality and troubleshooting tools offered in the NSX Advanced Load Balancer 20.x release. Features include the overall infrastructure, virtual services and application components, global server load balancing, various cloud connectors, application troubleshooting, and solution monitoring.

Skills Gained

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

Describe the NSX Advanced Load Balancer architecture
Describe the NSX Advanced Load Balancer components and main functions
Explain the NSX Advanced Load Balancer key features and benefits
Deploy and configure the NSX Advanced Load Balancer infrastructure within private or public clouds using Write and No Access Cloud Connectors
Explain, deploy, and configure Service Engines
Explain and configure local load balancing constructors such as virtual services, pools, health monitors, and related components
Understand and modify application behavior through profiles, policies, and DataScripts
Configure advanced services such as global server load balancing
Describe how to use NSX Advanced Load Balancer REST API interfaces and related automation capabilities
Describe and configure NSX Advanced Load Balancer application and infrastructure monitoring
Become familiar with NSX Advanced Load Balancer troubleshooting tools and steps to solve the problems.
Establish and apply a structured troubleshooting approach and methodology
Understand built-in mechanisms available for NSX Advanced Load Balancer monitoring
Identify, analyze, and troubleshoot problems related to the NSX Advanced Load Balancer infrastructure, including control and data plane components
Identify, analyze, and troubleshoot problems related to application components such as Virtual Services, Pools, and related components

Who Can Benefit

Experienced system administrators or network administrators
Network professionals who have experience working with NSX Advanced Load Balancer and are responsible for troubleshooting and operating Application Delivery Controllers solutions

Course Details

Product Alignment

NSX Advanced Load Balancer 20.x

Outline

Course Introduction

Introduction and course logistics
Course objectives

Introduction to NSX Advanced Load Balancer

Introduce NSX Advanced Load Balancer
Discuss NSX Advanced Load Balancer use cases and benefits
Explain NSX Advanced Load Balancer architecture and components
Explain the management, control, data, and consumption planes and their respective functions

Virtual Services Configuration Concepts

Explain Virtual Service components
Explain Virtual Service types
Explain and configure basic Virtual Service components such as Application Profiles, Network Profiles

Profiles and Policies

Explain Advanced Virtual Service creation
Explain and deep dive on Application Profiles and Types such as L4, DNS, Syslog, and HTTP
Explain and configure advanced application HTTP Profile options
Recognize Network Profiles and Types
Explain and configure SSL Profiles and Certificates
Explain and Configure HTTP and DNS policies

Pools Configuration Concepts

Explain on Pools configuration options
Describe available Load Balancing algorithms
Explain multiple Health Monitor types
Explain multiple Persistence Profiles
Explain and configure Pool Groups

Modifying Application Behavior

Design and apply application solutions leveraging application profiles
Design and apply application solutions leveraging Network and HTTP Policies and DataScripts
Explain DataScript fundamentals
Explain and leverage NSX Advanced Load Balancer analytics to understand application behavior
Describe and configure Client SSL Certificate Validation
Describe and configure Virtual Service DDoS, Rate Limiting, and Throttling capabilities
Modify Network Profiles properties such as TCP connection properties
Design and apply application solutions leveraging Persistence Profiles

NSX Advanced Load Balancer Infrastructure Architecture

Deep dive on the management, control, data, and consumption planes and functions
Describe Control Plane Clustering and High Availability
Describe Controller Process Sharing
Describe Controller Sizing
Describe Service Engine CPU and NIC Architecture
Explain Tenants
Recognize the configure properties of Service Engine Groups
Explain Service Engine Group High Availability Modes
Describe and configure Active/Standby High Availability Mode
Describe and configure Elastic HA High Availability Mode (Active/Active, N+M)
Explain Service Engine Failure Detection and Self-Healing
Describe Service Engine as a Router
Identify Virtual Service scale out options, such as Layer 2 (Native), Layer 3 (BGP), and DNS-based

Introduction to Cloud Connector

Introduce VMware vCloud Connector®
Review vCloud Connector integration modes
Introduce vCloud Connector types

Install, Configure and Manage NSX Advanced Load Balancer in No-Access Cloud

Explain No Access Cloud concepts
Configure No Access Cloud integration
Explain and Configure Linux Server Cloud
Describe the Advanced Configuration options available in Bare-Metal (Linux Server Cloud)

Install, Configure and Manage NSX Advanced Load Balancer in VMware Environment: Cloud Configuration

Introduce VMware integration options
Explain and configure VMware No Access Cloud Connector
Explain and configure VMware Write Access Cloud Connector
Describe VMware Write with NSX Access Cloud Connector
Describe VMware NSX integration

AWS Cloud Configuration

Describe NSX Advanced Load Balancer Public Cloud integrations
Explain and demonstrate AWS Public Cloud Integration

DNS Foundations

Review, discuss, and explain DNS fundamentals
Describe NSX Advanced Load Balancer DNS and IPAM providers

Global Server Load Balancing

Introduce Global Server Load Balancing Concepts and Benefits
Explain and configure NSX Advanced Load Balancer infrastructure
Explain and configure DNS Virtual Service components
Explain and configure GSLB Service Engine Group
Describe and configure GSLB Sites
Explain and configure basic GSLB Services to include pools and health monitors
Describe GSLB Service Load Balancing algorithms
Explain and configure Data and Control Plane-based Health Monitors
Describe GSLB Health Monitor Proxy

Events and Alerts

Describe NSX Advanced Load Balancer Events
Describe and configure NSX Advanced Load Balancer Alerts
Describe NSX Advanced Load Balancer monitoring capabilities, leveraging SNMP, Syslog, and Email

Introduction to NSX Advanced Load Balancer Rest API

Introduce NSX Advanced Load Balancer REST API interface
Describe REST API Object Schema
Explain and interact with REST API interface, leveraging browser and command line utility
Explain Swagger-based API documentation

Introduction to NSX Advanced Load Balancer Troubleshooting

Explain NSX Advanced Load Balancer troubleshooting concepts
Describe and leverage Virtual Service Traffic Logs
Describe and leverage Virtual Service Security Insights
Understand and utilize Health Score concepts
Explain and leverage application metrics and analytics
Explain and leverage packet capture and CLI utilities for application troubleshooting
Leverage UI, CLI, and useful log files to perform control plane troubleshooting

Infrastructure Troubleshooting

Describe and perform general vCloud Connector troubleshooting
Describe and analyze vCloud Connector state
Leverage case studies to troubleshoot vCloud Connector
Describe and troubleshoot NSX Cloud Connector integration
Leverage case studies to troubleshoot NSX Cloud Connector
Describe and troubleshoot Linux Server Cloud Connector integration
Describe and troubleshoot OpenStack Cloud Connector integration
Leverage case studies to troubleshoot OpenStack Cloud Connector
Describe and troubleshoot AWS and Azure Cloud Connector integrations

Troubleshooting NSX Advanced Load Balancer Service Engines and Advanced Troubleshooting

Explain general Service Engine infrastructure
Explain and leverage analytics, health score, and metrics for Service Engine troubleshooting
Explain and leverage Events and Alerts for Service Engine troubleshooting
Leverage CLI for accessing Service Engine
Analyze Service Engine logs offline with Tech Support utility and collecting core dumps
Leverage CLI and useful log files for Service Engine Data Plane troubleshooting
Leverage CLI to capture packets for advanced datapath analysis

Monitoring NSX Advanced Load Balancer

Explain and configure SNMP-based monitoring
Explain and configure REST API-based monitoring
Describe and leverage 3rd-party integration with monitoring tools like Splunk
Leverage 3rd-party REST API monitoring extensions like Prometheus
Describe and leverage VMware integrations like VMware vRealize® Network Insight™ for monitoring

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VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer: ICM plus Troubleshooting and Operations Fast Track [V20.x]

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Who Can Benefit

Course Details

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Outline

When does class start/end?

Does the course schedule include a Lunchbreak?

How can someone reach me during class?

What languages are used to deliver training?

What does GTR stand for?

How do I find an ExitCertified training location?

Which delivery formats are available?

Does ExitCertified deliver group training?

What does vendor-authorized training mean?

Is the training too basic, or will you go deep into technology?

How up-to-date are your courses and support materials?

Are your instructors seasoned trainers who have deep knowledge of the training topic?

Do you provide hands-on training and exercises in an actual lab environment?

Will you customize the training for our company’s specific needs and goals?

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Course Details

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Outline

When does class start/end?

Does the course schedule include a Lunchbreak?

How can someone reach me during class?

What languages are used to deliver training?

What does GTR stand for?

How do I find an ExitCertified training location?

Which delivery formats are available?

Does ExitCertified deliver group training?

What does vendor-authorized training mean?

Is the training too basic, or will you go deep into technology?

How up-to-date are your courses and support materials?

Are your instructors seasoned trainers who have deep knowledge of the training topic?

Do you provide hands-on training and exercises in an actual lab environment?

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