
Explore the fundamentals of software-defined wide area networks, including architecture, deployment methods, and core components like edge orchestration, gateway components, and traffic flows, and high availability.
Explore NSX SD-WAN architecture overview, detailing a cloud-enabled, zero-touch deployment with an orchestrator, overlay networks, and unified management across private and public networks for scalable, improved application performance.
Explore the NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud solution components: edge, orchestrator, and gateway, delivering secure cloud-to-on-premises connectivity and centralized management.
Explore how NSX SD-WAN solution components - edge, orchestration, and gateway - interact through heartbeat monitoring, authentication options like radius and single sign-on, and dynamic optimization to deliver observable connectivity.
Explore the software-defined networking approach that connects the orchestrator, edge devices, and enterprise data centers via management and data planes, enabling policy-driven traffic and color tagging for cloud connectivity.
Explore dynamic multipart optimization with deep application recognition in NSX SD-WAN to enforce business policies, application overlay QoS, and smart load balancing.
Explore cloud vpn deployment, including one-click vpn setup, tunnel establishment between edge devices, and dynamic traffic flows guided by an orchestrator across hub and branch networks.
Discover service insertion in VMware NSX SD-WAN by Velocloud, detailing virtual firewall deployment at edge and third-party firewall integration via the virtual services platform.
Explore high availability and hub cluster designs for NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud, describing active and passive deployments, hub-based routing, and orchestrator-driven edge tunneling.
Explore overlay flow control and routing in NSX SD-WAN, examining underlay vs overlay challenges, hub and branch site connectivity, and how the control plane exchanges route learning via the orchestrator.
Learn to implement segmentation to isolate traffic, enable branch-to-branch VPNs, and manage firewall rules and PCI compliance policies across a VeloCloud NSX SD-WAN deployment.
Explore deployment flexibility with NSX SD-WAN, including zero-touch onboarding, orchestrator-driven policy pull, incremental and brownfield deployments, and branch deployment options that integrate with existing networks and dynamic routing.
Configure the Chicago branch site wan links by creating and provisioning a new edge device in the cloud orchestrator, selecting a virtual edge and an appropriate profile for site integration.
Activate the Chicago site by sending the activation email, clicking the link, and validating activation in the monitor tab, including verifying horizon and spectrum links are alive.
Configure an NSX edge device in the VMware NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud course, setting the edge LAN IP and management IP.
Create a user-defined NSX SD-WAN overlay by configuring a private link on the edge's gigabit ethernet interface. Verify connectivity with tests and troubleshoot the edge configuration to ensure proper bandwidth.
Verify the internet overlay to the NSX SD-WAN gateway is configured by running a remote diagnostic test and validating gateway status, using hub and spoke and branch-to-branch VPN configurations.
Enable hub and spoke topology in a cloud-based NSX SD-WAN lab by configuring cloud hub, linking Chicago branch to DC hub, verifying VPN tunnel connectivity, and performing tests and diagnostics.
Enable a branch-to-branch VPN by configuring the NSX SD-WAN gateway and the BGP profile, enable dynamic branch-to-branch VPN, and monitor and verify connectivity across sites.
Enable branch-to-branch vpn using a hub, configure and verify topology with test and troubleshoot options, and monitor connectivity across internet only and hybrid sites.
Configure a branch site to redirect internet traffic through Zscaler, enabling cloud-based security and site blocking, and verify connectivity by loading CNN and ESPN pages.
Create and apply business policy rules in VMware NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud, configuring internet rules to block ESPN.com while CNN.com remains accessible.
Configure edges to add a static route to reach the subnet behind the layer 3 switch and verify connectivity by pinging the host after saving.
Enable dynamic routing with OSPF on the edge device, establish an OSPF neighbor relationship, configure area 0, and verify the results by monitoring events.
Verify routing from internet sites to legacy sites using VMware NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud, highlighting underlay and overlay paths and the DC hub site traffic to legacy subnets.
Verify routing from the hybrid links to legacy sites using underlay MPLS paths on the 10.x subnet, and demonstrate failover to the data center when a link fails.
configure two segments in nsx sdw an by veloCloud, assign them to a site, and set their topology and business policies while applying overlapping subnets and ip address ranges.
Configure a segment firewall rule in VMware NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud to deny Facebook for the CD segment, while allowing the guest segment to browse Facebook.
Create a new business policy rule for underlay traffic, associating Netflix as the application, saving changes, and configuring the edge device interface G1 to enable direct underlay routing.
learn to create a mandatory business policy in NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud to pin traffic to Verizon, configure a UDP rule, and monitor bandwidth from the DC1 server.
simulate a connection drop and verify the results by monitoring ip traffic, throughput, and wireless bandwidth utilization, then activate the outage scenario to observe upstream traffic behavior.
Configure a business policy with the preferred option, tune the UDP traffic rule, and verify traffic continuity during a horizon link outage using monitoring and events.
Create a business policy for brownout protection using dynamic multipath optimization in VMware NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud, enabling on-demand remediation for real-time UDP traffic across a single link.
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
Discuss the SD-WAN architecture and platform deployment model options
Identify and describe the SD-WAN solution these dramatically improve operational automation
Use SD-WAN features to perform simple, components
Explain the interaction between the SD-WAN Edge, Orchestrator, and Gateway components
Describe the SD-WAN Software-Defined Networking (SDN) approach, traffic , and network flows
Explore SD-WAN core features and evaluate how agile, and secure SD-WAN operations
Simplify branch infrastructure by inserting network services on the branch edge, in the cloud, or in the regional and enterprise data centers