This five-day, fast-paced course provides comprehensive training to install, configure, and manage a VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (Avi Networks) solution. This course covers key NSX Advanced Load Balancer (Avi Networks) features and functionality offered in the NSX Advanced Load Balancer 20.x release. Features include the overall infrastructure, virtual services and application components, global server load balancing, various cloud connectors, application troubleshooting, and solution monitoring. Hands-on labs provide access to a software-defined data center environment to reinforce the skills and concepts presented in the course.

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Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, 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
Gather relevant information and perform basic troubleshooting of applications that use built-in NSX Advanced Load Balancer tooling

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 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


5
  • 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


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 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/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


8
  • INTRODUCTION TO CLOUD CONNECTOR

  • Introduce Cloud Connectors

    Review Cloud Connector integration modes

    Introduce Cloud 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-V Access Cloud Connector

    Describe VMware NSX-T 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
  • NSX ADVANCED LOAD BALANCER: 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


15
  • 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


16
  • 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


Audience

Experienced system administrators and network administrators

Language

English

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

$4,250

Length: 5.0 days (40 hours)

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