* Chapter 1
o Title: NSX-T and the VMware SDDC ecosystem
o Chapter Goal: Provide information on the SDDC and what the position is of NSX-T.
o Number of Pages: 5
o Subtopics:
The VMware's SDDC ecosystem
Compute
Storage
Software Defined Networking
* Chapter 2
o Title: An Introduction to NSX-T
o Chapter Goal: Provide information on the product, the problem that can be solved and use-cases that can be satisfied.
o Number of Pages: 10
o Subtopics:
NSX-T Components
NSX-T Use Cases
* Chapter 3
o Title: The NSX-T installation on a vSphere environment
o Chapter Goal: Explain the components of NSX-T and how these are deployed including the prerequisites.
o Number of Pages: 20
o Subtopics:
NSX-T Installation Planning & Prerequisites
NSX-T Manager Installation
Edge Transport Installation (VM)
Edge Transport Installation (BM)
Host Transport Node Installation (ESXi)
* Chapter 4
o Title: Tier-0 Gateways
o Chapter Goal: Configure North/South Routing using the T0 Gateway with different kind of features.
o Number of Pages: 20
o Subtopics:
Deploy a T0 Gateway
Configure Routing
Configure Multicast
IPv6 Routing
T0 High Availability
VRF Deployment
EVPN Deployment
* Chapter 5
o Title: Tier-1 Gateways
o Chapter Goal: Create and Configure T1 Gateways.
o Number of Pages: 5
o Subtopics:
Deploy a T0 Gateway
Configure Routing
* Chapter 6
o Title: Segments
o Chapter Goal: Create and Configure L2 Segments with various service capabilities.
o Number of Pages: 10
o Subtopics:
Attach segments
DHCP & DHCP Static Binds
L2 Bridging
Add a Metadata Proxy Server
* Chapter 7
o Title: Host Switches
o Chapter Goal: Explanation on the interrogability with the vSphere Distributed Switch and the defense between the N-VDS.
o Number of Pages: 5
o Subtopics:
NSX-T with the vSphere Distributed Switch
NSX-T N-VDS
Enhanced Networking Stack
Chapter 8
o Title: Virtual Private Network (VPN)
o Chapter Goal: Know the differ types of VPN and how to configure and monitor them.
o Number of Pages: 10
o Subtopics:
IPSEC (L3 VPN)
L2 VPN
Configuration of VPN
* L3
* L4
Monitoring of VPN sessions
* Chapter 9
o Title: Network Address Translation (NAT)
o Chapter Goal: Know the difference between SNAT and DNAT and explanation on how to configure NAT.
o Number of Pages: 5
o Subtopics:
SNAT
DNAT
Configure NAT Services
* Chapter 10
o Title: Load Balancing (LB)
o Chapter Goal: Discuss Load Balancing capabilities and configuration.
o Number of Pages: 10
o Subtopics:
Load Balancing Concepts
Distributed Load Balancer
Setting up the Load Balancer Components
* Chapter 11
o Title: IP Address Management (IPAM)
o Chapter Goal: DNS and DHCP IP address Management using the internal NSX-T Tools.
o Number of Pages: 5
o Subtopics:
DNS Zone
DNS Forwarding Zone
DHCP Profile
IP Address Pool
IP Address Block
* Chapter 12
o Title: Network Settings
o Chapter Goal: Getting to know the Network setting that can be configured to finetune your network services.
o Number of Pages: 10
o Subtopics:
Multicast
VNI Pools
Gateway Settings
Gateway QoS Profile
BFD Profile
IP Discovery Profiles
MAC Discovery Profiles
* Chapter 13
o Title: Security
o Chapter Goal: The theory about the Security Services offered by NSX-T followed by the deployment's details and steps with proper verification.
o Number of Pages: 35
o Subtopics:
Identity based Firewall
Layer-7 Context Profiles
Gateway Firewalls
Distributed Firewall
Distributed IDS
East/West Third-party service insertion
North/South Third-party service insertion
Security Profiles
Time-Based Firewall Policy
Network Introspection Settings
End-Point Protection
Bare Metal Server Security
* Chapter 14
o Title: Multi-Site
o Chapter Goal: Design Principles regarding Multi Site routing
o Number of Pages: 30
o Subtopics:
Multi-Site Capabilities
NSX-T Federation overview
Networking with Federation
Security with Federation
Backup & Restore with Federation
* Chapter 15
o Title: System Operations
o Chapter Goal: Monitoring of the NSX-T Fabric using different VMware related tools.
o Number of Pages: 15
o Subtopics:
Monitoring / Events and Alarms
Logging
vRealize Log insight integration
vRealize Operations integration
Other Operation Tools Integration
* Chapter 16
o Title: Network Operations
o Chapter Goal: Tools to verify the Routing and Routing performance.
o Number of Pages: 10
o Subtopics:
Network Monitoring
Logging
vRealize Network insight integration
IPFIX
Network Performance Testing using IPERF Tools
* Chapter 17
o Title: Authentication and Authorization
o Chapter Goal: Information on how to integrate NSX-T with an external LDAP server and create user (groups) with different roles and rights (RBAC).
o Number of Pages: 5
o Subtopics:
vIDM Integration & LDAP Integration
LDAP only integration
RBAC
* Chapter 18
o Title: Public Cloud Integration
o Chapter Goal: NSX-T is also used in all major Public Clouds. This chapter gives you an overview on what is deployed there and how NSX-T can be consumed in these Public Clouds.
o Number of Pages: 10
o Subtopics:
Forwarding Policies
VMC on AWS
Azure VMware Solution (AVS)
Google Cloud VMware Engine
* Chapter 19
o Title: Automation
o Chapter Goal: Get familiar on the out-of-the-box automation capabilities and vRO extensibility.
o Number of Pages: 20
o Subtopics:
vCloud Director
* Allowing Tenants to Create / Use NSX-T Related automated network and security Services
vRealize Automation / vRealize Orchestration
* Allowing Tenants to Create / Use NSX-T Related automated network and security Services
NSX-T API Capabilities
