Complete VMware NSX-T 2.4 Data Center

Deploy NSX management cluster and add NSX manager nodes. Access the NSX manager UI, register the compute manager to NSX data center, and configure a virtual IP for load balancing.

Navigate NSX manager UI by choosing simplified or advanced views, with simplified preferred whenever possible. Access networking, security, inventory, and tabs to configure switching, routing, VPN, load balancing, and policies.

Learn to prepare the data plane in a VMware NSX-T data center by examining transport nodes, MPLX and LCP components, and transport zones for overlay and VLAN traffic.

Explore lab one topology in the VMware NSX-T 2.4 data center course, verify data plane settings, license management, vCenter registration, and interconnect three logical networks via routers.

Configure and validate a predeployed NSX Manager in an NSX-T 2.4 data center, verify licenses, set up the virtual IP, and register the compute manager and edge.

Deploy a three-node NSX-T data center management cluster using the simplified UI, then review the management dashboard in the UI and assess asset management information from the NSX CLI.

Deploy a 3-node NSX manager cluster by provisioning three appliances, selecting a small deployment model, configuring management IPs and credentials, and verifying stability with the cluster status CLI.

This lab guides you through preparing the NSX-T 2.4 data center lab, creating transport zones on two hosts, configuring IP ports, and understanding the lab topology.

Prepare the NSX infrastructure by creating overlay and non-overlay transport zones, configuring an IP pool, and provisioning NSX transport nodes with deployment and uplink profiles.

Explore logical switching with segments and segment profiles, enabling layer 2 over layer 3 overlay networks using Geneve encapsulation, managed by NSX manager across transport nodes.

Explain the logical switching architecture in VMware NSX-T data center, showing how the management plan and central control plan coordinate segment creation and NSX proxy updates to logical switches.

Learn to configure segments in the NSX-T 2.4 data center by creating segments, attaching virtual machines via logical ports, and understanding uplink options, segment profiles, and NSX Manager workflow.

Explore configuring segment profiles in NSX-T data center, including ip discovery, mac discovery, mac learning, spoof guard, segment security, and quality of service to tailor security and performance.

Create three logical segments in the nsx-t 2.4 data center lab, assign networks 172.16.29.0 and 172.16.34.0, attach VMs to the segments, and verify connectivity between them.

Create and configure three logical segments—web, application, and database—in the NSX-T data center, then attach the corresponding VMs and verify connectivity in the NSX manager.

Explore logical routing in nsx-t data center, enabling east-west and north-south traffic across multi-tenant, multi-hypervisor, and multi-cloud environments with distributed and service routers extending logical networks to physical infrastructure.

Explore nsx edge and edge cluster architecture, enabling distributed routing and services with active-active or active-standby high availability. Review deployment options, including vm and bare metal, management and control planes.

Configure tier-0 and tier-1 gateways, assign uplinks and segments, and implement static routing or BGP with redistribution. Verify connectivity across the segments and tiered gateway topology.

Compare static routing with manual routing tables to dynamic routing using BGP (IBGP/EBGP) in a NSX-T data center, including tier zero gateway configuration, redistribution, and BFD-based failover.

Explore ecmp and high availability in nsx edge routing. Load balancing traffic across multiple links boosts bandwidth with active-active and active-standby modes and up to ten edge nodes.

Learn to deploy the NSX-T lab topology by connecting a data server to the NSX Manager, enabling SSX on new NSX components, and configuring edge devices with a shared network.

In lab 6, create logical segments, connect them to the gateway, and test east-west l3 connectivity across the topology.

Configure a tier-1 gateway in nsx-t 2.4 data center by creating an edge gateway, linking app, db, and web segments, assigning subnets, and validating east-west connectivity with pings.