[Free] Vmware Basics - Virtual Networking And Nsx-T Installation

The basics of VMware networking and NSX-T as preparation for a more advanced NSX-T course or Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) – Free Course

Added on December 27, 2020 IT & Software 1 min read

What you’ll learn

• The basics of VMware Virtual Networking
• Virtual Switches – Standard Switches
• Virtual Distributed Switches – VDS Switches
• A comparison of Standard and VDS Switches
• How to install NSX-T Manager on vSphere
• How to create a 3-node NSX-T Management Cluster
• EXTRA VIDEO: How NSX-T can be used with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG)

Requirements

• A basic understanding of VMware and Virtualization
• A basic understanding of computer networking
• Developers working with vSphere and vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA)

Description

This course covers the basics of VMware virtual networking, including a comparison of Standard switches and VDS distributed switches.

We also cover creating a VDS across multiple VMware vSphere ESXi hosts

We then install NSX-T manager, and then build-out a 3-appliance NSX-T Management Cluster

This course is intended as an introduction to Virtual Networking and NSX-T Installation, taken before a more detailed NSX-T training course.

(We install and configure and NSX-T Management Cluster, but don’t actually deploy any additional NSX-T networking services)

Extra Content:

How NSX-T can be used with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) to secure container workloads with the same set of tools and policies

Author(s): Jason Meers