VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer: Install, Configure, Manage (NSXALBICM) – Outline

Detailed Course 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, 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