- Chapter 1
o Title: NSX-T and the VMware SDDC ecosystem
o Chapter Goal: Provide information on the SDDC and what the position is of NSX-T.
o Number of Pages: 5
o Subtopics:
§ The VMware's SDDC ecosystem
§ Compute § Storage
§ Software Defined Networking
- Chapter 2
o Title: An Introduction to NSX-T
o Chapter Goal: Provide information on the product, the problem that can be solved and use-cases that can be satisfied.
o Number of Pages: 10
o Subtopics:
§ NSX-T Components § NSX-T Use Cases
- Chapter 3
o Title: The NSX-T installation on a vSphere environment
o Chapter Goal: Explain the components of NSX-T and how these are deployed including the prerequisites. o Number of Pages: 20
o Subtopics: § NSX-T Installation Planning & Prerequisites
§ NSX-T Manager Installation
§ Edge Transport Installation (VM)
§ Edge Transport Installation (BM)
§ Host Transport Node Installation (ESXi)
- Chapter 4
o Title: Tier-0 Gateways
o Chapter Goal: Configure North/South Routing using the T0 Gateway with different kind of features.
o Number of Pages: 20
o Subtopics:
§ Deploy a T0 Gateway
§ Configure Routing
§ Configure Multicast
§ IPv6 Routing
§ T0 High Availability
§ VRF Deployment
§ EVPN Deployment
- Chapter 5
o Title: Tier-1 Gateways
o Chapter Goal: Create and Configure T1 Gateways.
o Number of Pages: 5
o Subtopics:
§ Deploy a T0 Gateway
§ Configure Routing - Chapter 6
o Title: Segments
o Chapter Goal: Create and Configure L2 Segments with various service capabilities.
o Number of Pages: 10 o Subtopics:
§ Attach segments
§ DHCP & DHCP Static Binds
§ L2 Bridging
§ Add a Metadata Proxy Server
- Chapter 7
o Title: Host Switches
o Chapter Goal: Explanation on the interrogability with the vSphere Distributed Switch and the defense between the N-VDS. o Number of Pages: 5
o Subtopics: § NSX-T with the vSphere Distributed Switch
§ NSX-T N-VDS
§ Enhanced Networking Stack
Chapter 8
o Title: Virtual Private Network (VPN)
o Chapter Goal: Know the differ types of VPN and how to configure and monitor them.
o Number of Pages: 10 o Subtopics:
§ IPSEC (L3 VPN)
§ L2 VPN
§ Configuration of VPN
- L3
- L4
§ Monitoring of VPN sessions
- Chapter 9
o Titl
About the Author:
Iwan Hoogendoorn started his IT career in 1999 as a help desk agent. He began learning Microsoft products and obtained MCP, MCSA, MCDBA, and MCSE certifications.
While working as a Microsoft Systems Engineer, he developed additional skills and knowledge in computer networking with Cisco products. He dreamed of working for Cisco but first needed to finish his bachelor's degree in ICT, which he completed in 2009.
In 2010, Iwan began working for his dream company, Cisco. After finishing his master's degree in computer science at the University of Amsterdam and becoming a CCIE (#13084) in six different technology areas, he wanted to learn something new and network virtualization was the next logical step.
Iwan decided to learn VMware NSX and got the opportunity to work for VMware in 2016 as a Senior NSX PSO Consultant. In his time at VMware, he gained more knowledge on private and public clouds and the related products that VMware developed to build the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC).
After working for four years as a Senior NSX PSO Consultant (primarily with VMware NSX-v and NSX-T), Iwan was promoted to Staff SDDC Consultant focusing on the full SDDC stack, including Hyperscaler offerings on public clouds such as AWS (VMC on AWS), Microsoft (Azure VMware Solution), and Google (Google Cloud VMware Engine).
Iwan is certified on multiple VMware products, including NSX, and is actively working with VMware certification to develop network-related exams for VMware. He is also AWS and TOGAF certified.
