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

Detailed Course Outline

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 and network profiles
4 Virtual Services Configuration Advanced Concepts
  • Explain the virtual service advanced components such as Wildcard VIP, Server Name Identification (SNI), and Enhanced Virtual Hosting (EVH)
  • Explain the concept of virtual service VIP Sharing
  • Explain different authentication mechanisms used for a virtual service such as LDAP, SAML, JSON Web Token, and OAUTH
5 Profiles and Policies
  • Explain application profiles and types such as L4, DNS, Syslog, HTTP, and VMware Horizon VDI
  • Explain and configure advanced application HTTP profile options
  • Describe network profiles and types
  • Explain and configure SSL profiles and certificates
  • Explain and configure HTTP, network, and DNS policies
6 Pools Configuration Concepts
  • Explain pools configuration options
  • Describe the available load balancing algorithms
  • Explain multiple health monitor types
  • Explain multiple Persistence profiles
  • Explain and configure pool groups
7 Modifying Application Behavior
  • Design and apply application solutions by using application profiles
  • Design and apply application solutions by using network, HTTP policies, and DataScripts
  • Explain DataScript fundamentals
  • Explain and use 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 profile properties such as TCP connection properties
  • Design and apply application solutions by using Persistence profiles
8 NSX Advanced Load Balancer Infrastructure Architecture
  • Explain management, control, data, and consumption planes and functions
  • Describe control plane clustering and high availability
  • Describe controller sizing and process sharing
  • Describe Service Engine CPU and NIC architecture
  • Explain tenants
  • Configure properties of Service Engine groups
  • Explain Service Engine group high availability modes
  • Describe and configure active-standby high availability mode
  • Explain Service Engine placement in multiple availability zones for public clouds
  • 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
  • Explain virtual service scale-out options such as Layer 2 (Native), Layer 3 (BGP), and DNS-based
  • Describe how to upgrade NSX Advanced Load Balancer
9 Introduction to Cloud Connector
  • Explain cloud connectors
  • Review cloud connector integration modes
  • List cloud connector types
  • Review the different Service Engine image types in different ecosystems
10 Installing, Configuring, and Managing NSX Advanced Load Balancer in No-Orchestrator Cloud
  • Explain No-Access cloud concepts
  • Configure No-Access cloud integration on bare metal
  • Explain and configure Linux Server Cloud
  • Explain and configure VMware No Orchestrator
  • Describe the advanced configuration options available in bare metal (Linux Server Cloud)
11 Installing, Configuring, and Managing NSX Advanced Load Balancer in VMware Environment: Cloud Configuration
  • Introduce VMware integration options
  • Explain and configure VMware Write Access Cloud Connector
  • Explain NSX Advanced Load Balancer integration options in a VMware NSX environment
  • Explain and configure NSX Cloud Connector for Overlay and VLAN-backed segments
12 AWS Cloud Configuration
  • Describe NSX Advanced Load Balancer public cloud integrations
  • Explain different AWS components
  • Explain and demonstrate AWS public cloud integration
  • Deploy VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer Controller, SEs, and virtual services in AWS Cloud
  • Review Multi-AZ Support for virtual services in AWS cloud
13 GCP Cloud Configuration
  • Explain different GCP components
  • Explain and demonstrate GCP public cloud integration
  • Deploy NSX Advanced Load Balancer Controller, SEs, and virtual services in GCP cloud
14 Azure Cloud Configuration
  • Describe NSX Advanced Load Balancer public cloud integrations
  • Explain different Microsoft Azure components
  • Explain and demonstrate Azure public cloud integration
  • Deploy NSX Advanced Load Balancer Controller, SEs, and virtual services in Azure Cloud
15 NSX Advanced Load Balancer Enterprise with Cloud Services (Avi Pulse)
  • Describe NSX Advanced Load Balancer public cloud services
  • Explain different features of NSX Advanced Load Balancer Cloud Services
  • Register the controller with Cloud Services
16 DNS Foundations
  • Review, discuss, and explain DNS fundamentals
  • Describe NSX Advanced Load Balancer DNS and IPAM providers
17 Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB)
  • Introduce Global Server load balancing concepts and benefits
  • Explain and configure the NSX Advanced Load Balancer infrastructure
  • Explain and configure the 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 Server Load Balancing algorithms
  • Explain and configure health monitors based on data plane and control plane
  • Describe GSLB Health Monitor Proxy
  • Explain GSLB Site-Cookie Persistence
  • Explain the different GSLB replication methods
18 Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
  • Introduce local authentication in NSX Advanced Load Balancer
  • Introduce remote authentication in NSX Advanced Load Balancer
  • Review the different types of remote authentication
  • Explain granular RBAC using labels
19 NSX Advanced Load Balancer: Troubleshooting
  • Introduce infrastructure and application troubleshooting concepts
  • Describe troubleshooting based on control plane and data plane
  • Explain application analytics and logs
  • Describe client logs analysis
  • Explain headers troubleshooting and packet capture mechanism
  • Describe how to use 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
20 Events and Alerts
  • Describe NSX Advanced Load Balancer events
  • Describe and configure NSX Advanced Load Balancer alerts
  • Describe NSX Advanced Load Balancer monitoring capabilities with SNMP, Syslog, and Email
21 Introduction to NSX Advanced Load Balancer Rest API
  • Introduce the NSX Advanced Load Balancer REST API interface
  • Describe REST API Object Schema
  • Explain and interact with REST API interface with browser and command-line utility
  • Explain Swagger-based API documentation
  • Review the different types of SDKs available in NSX Advanced Load Balancer
  • Explain and configure VMware Write Access Cloud Connector
  • Explain NSX Advanced Load Balancer integration options in the VMware NSX environment
  • Explain and configure NSX Cloud Connector for Overlay and VLAN-backed segments
  • Introduce VMware integration options