Course Overview
You will learn advanced management techniques for VMware NSX® Advanced Load BalancerTM (Avi) solutions in this five-day, extended-hour course. Installing, configuring, and managing a VMware NSX® Advanced Load BalancerTM solution are skills you will learn in this course. Furthermore, you will get up advanced know-how, abilities, and equipment to become proficient in using and troubleshooting NSX Advanced Load Balancer solutions.
This course goes over the most important NSX Advanced Load Balancer capabilities, features, and troubleshooting tools available in the 20.x release. Included in the features are the overall architecture, virtual services, application components, global server load balancing, different cloud connectors, application debugging, and solution monitoring.
In the course's hands-on labs for troubleshooting, you will be given a variety of technical issues to solve. Through a methodical procedure, you will identify, assess, and resolve the technical problems.
Prerequisites
This course has no prerequisites
Audience Profile
- Experienced system administrators and network administrators
- Network and security professionals who work with enterprise networks
Learning Objectives
By the end, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Describe the 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 the NSX Advanced Load Balancer infrastructure within private or public clouds using 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 through profiles, policies, and DataScripts
- Configure advanced services such as global server load balancing
- Describe how to use NSX Advanced Load Balancer REST API interfaces and related automation capabilities
- Describe and configure NSX Advanced Load Balancer application and infrastructure monitoring
- Become familiar with NSX Advanced Load Balancer troubleshooting tools and steps to solve the problems.
- Establish and apply a structured troubleshooting approach and methodology
- Understand built-in mechanisms available for NSX Advanced Load Balancer monitoring
- Identify, analyze, and troubleshoot problems related to the NSX Advanced Load Balancer infrastructure, including control and data plane components
- Identify, analyze, and troubleshoot problems related to application components such as Virtual Services, Pools, and related components
Content Outline
- Introduction and course logistics
- Course objectives
- 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
- Explain Virtual Service components
- Explain Virtual Service types
- Explain and configure essential Virtual Service components such as Application Profiles, Network Profiles
- Explain Advanced Virtual Service Creation
- Explain and deep dive into 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
- Explain on Pools configuration options
- Describe available Load Balancing algorithms
- Explain multiple Health Monitor types
- Explain multiple Persistence Profiles
- Explain and configure Pool Groups
- 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
- Deep dive into the management, control, data, and consumption planes and functions
- Describe Control Plane Clustering and High Availability
- Describe the Controller Process of Sharing
- Describe Controller Sizing
- Describe Service Engine CPU and NIC Architecture
- Explain Tenants
- Recognize the configured 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 the Service Engine as a Router
- Identify Virtual Service scale-out options, such as Layer 2 (Native), Layer 3 (BGP), and DNS-based
- Introduce VMware vCloud Connector®
- Review vCloud Connector integration modes
- Introduce vCloud Connector types
- 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)
- 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
- Describe NSX Advanced Load Balancer Public Cloud integrations
- Explain and demonstrate AWS Public Cloud Integration
- Review, discuss and explain DNS fundamentals
- Describe NSX Advanced Load Balancer DNS and IPAM providers
- 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 essential 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
- 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
- Introduce NSX Advanced Load Balancer REST API interface
- Describe REST API Object Schema
- Explain and interact with the REST API interface, leveraging browser and command line utility
- Explain Swagger-based API documentation
- 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 sound log files to perform control plane troubleshooting
- Describe and perform general vCloud Connector troubleshooting
- Describe and analyze the 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
- 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 collect core dumps
- Leverage CLI and sound log files for Service Engine Data Plane troubleshooting
- Leverage CLI to capture packets for advanced datapath analysis
- 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
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