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 21.x release. Features include the overall infrastructure, virtual services, 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 constructs such as virtual services, pools, health monitors, and related components
Explain and configure advanced virtual services and related concepts such as Subject Name Indication, Enhanced Virtual Hosting, and authentication of virtual services
Explain and modify application behavior through profiles, policies, and DataScripts
Describe Central licensing management using VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer Enterprise with Cloud services (formerly Avi Pulse)
Explain how to configure Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) in NSX Advanced Load Balancer
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
Identify the key features of VMware NSX Network Detection and Response

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

  • 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

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

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

Audience

Experienced system administrators and network administrators

Language

English

Prerequisites

$4,250

Length: 5.0 days (40 hours)

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