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

Course Summary:

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.

Course Duration: 5 Days


Course Content:

1 Course Introduction

  • Introduction and course logistics
  • Course objectives

2 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

3 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

4 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

5 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

6 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

7 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

8 Introduction to Cloud Connector

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

9 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)

10 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

11 AWS Cloud Configuration

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

12 DNS Foundations

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

13 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

14 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

15 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

16 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

17 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

18 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

19 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