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VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer: Install Configure Manage

VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer: Install Configure Manage

$4,250 USD GSA $3,639.80

Course Code EDU-NSXALBICM

Duration 5 days

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This five-day, fast-paced course provides comprehensive training on how to install, configure, and manage a VMware NSX® Advanced Load Balancer™ (Avi Networks) solution. This course covers key NSX Advanced Load Balancer (Avi Networks) features and functionality offered in the NSX Advanced Load Balancer 18.2 release. The features covered include the overall infrastructure, virtual services and application components, global server load balancing, various cloud connectors. Also covered are application troubleshooting and solution monitoring. Access to a software-defined data center environment is provided through hands-on labs to reinforce the skills and concepts presented in the course.

Skills Gained

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

Describe 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 NSX Advanced Load Balancer infrastructure within Private or Public Clouds leveraging 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 leveraging Profiles, Policies, and DataScripts
Configure advanced services such as Global Server Load Balancing
Describe and leverage NSX Advanced Load Balancer REST API interfaces and related automation capabilities
Describe and configure NSX Advanced Load Balancer application and infrastructure monitoring
Gather relevant information and perform basic troubleshooting of applications leveraging built-in NSX Advanced Load Balancer tooling

Who Can Benefit

Experienced system administrators or network administrators

Course Details

Product Alignment

NSX Advanced Load Balancer 18.2

Outline

Course Introduction

Introductions 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, Pools, and Health Monitors

Profiles and Policies

Explain and deep dive on 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
Deep dive on Network Profiles and Types
Explain and configure SSL Profiles and Certificates
Explain and Configure HTTP and DNS policies

Pools Configuration Concepts

Explain and deep dive 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 Sharding
Describe Controller Sizing
Describe Service Engine CPU and NIC Architecture
Explain Tenants
Deep dive and 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
Deep dive on Virtual Service scale out options, such as Layer 2 (Native), Layer 3 (BGP), and DNS-based
Explain Infrastructure Upgrade process

Introduction to Cloud Connectors

Introduce Cloud Connectors
Review Cloud Connector integration modes
Introduce Cloud Connector types

Install, Configure, and Manage NSX ALB in No Access Clouds

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 ALB in VMware environments

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-V Access Cloud Connector
Describe VMware NSX-T integration

Install, Configure, and Manage NSX ALB in Public Clouds (AWS)

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

Troubleshooting

Introduce Infrastructure and Application Troubleshooting Concepts
Describe Control Plane and Data Plane-based Troubleshooting
Explain Application Analytics and Logs
Describe client logs analysis
Explain Headers troubleshooting and Packet Capture mechanism
Leverage CLI for detailed data plane troubleshooting
Explain Service Engine Logs
Explain Health Monitors troubleshooting
Explain BGP session troubleshooting
Describe Control Plane Troubleshooting, Clustering, and Cloud Connector issues

Monitoring NSX Advanced Load Balancer Solution

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 ALB Programmability and Automation

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
Review 3rd-party automation integrations

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