Automated Traffic Visibility for the Software Defined Data Center (GVFSDDC) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Module 1: Gigamon Solution Overview

  • Adoption trends
  • Key value propositions
  • Visibility Fabric Architecture
  • Product family overview

Module 2: Packet Distribution

  • Aggregate, replicate, filter
  • Flow Mapping
  • Pass-all, port pair, tool-mirror
  • GigaStream, shared collector, egress filter

Module 3: Introduction to Managing a Visibility Fabric™

  • GigaVUE-FM (Fabric Manager)
  • Centralized Management and Physical Traffic Visibility
  • Virtual Traffic Visibility
  • Fabric-wide Reporting
  • Software-Defined Visibility

Module 4: GigaVUE-VM Overview

  • Capabilities and Use Cases
  • Hypervisor Support
    • VMware
    • OpenStack
  • Cisco ACI

Module 5: Introduction to vSphere and the Software-Defined Data Center

  • Physical data center topology
  • Software-defined data center
  • vSphere virtual infrastructure
  • vSphere ESXi Hypervisor
  • Describe VMware NSX™
  • vCenter Server
  • Virtual machines files and components
  • Virtual machines benefits
  • Private, public and hybrid clouds

Module 6: Creating Virtual Machines

  • Virtual machines, virtual machine hardware and virtual machine files
  • Virtual machine files
  • Virtual machine hardware and its features
  • Virtual machine CPU, memory, disk and network resource usage
  • Virtual machine disk format
  • Virtual machine templates

Module 7: vCenter Server

  • vCenter Server architecture
  • vCenter Server Appliance
  • vSphere Client
  • vSphere Web Client
  • vCenter Server backup
  • vSphere HA architectures and features
  • vCenter Server inventory objects and licenses

Module 8: Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

  • vSphere Standard switches
  • Virtual switch security and load-balancing policies
  • vSphere distributed switches and standard switches
  • Virtual switch connection types
  • TCP/IP stack architecture
  • VLANs with standard switches

Module 9: Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage

  • Storage protocols and storage device types
  • ESXi hosts using iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
  • VMFS and NFS datastores

Module 10: Management and Control Plane Components

  • Understand the management, control, and data planes
  • Describe VMware NSX Manager™
  • Describe the VMware NSX Controller™ cluster

Module 11: Logical Switch Networks

  • Describe Ethernet fundamentals
  • Describe switch link aggregation
  • Describe VLAN
  • Describe VXLAN: Logical Switch Networks
  • Describe the VMware NSX Controller replication

Module 12: VMware NSX Logical Routing

  • Discuss routing protocols
  • Describe the VMware NSX logical router
  • Describe the NSX Edge services gateway

Module 13: VMware NSX L2 Bridging

  • Understand L2 bridging and use cases
  • Describe Layer 2 software bridging
  • Describe Layer 2 hardware bridging

Module 14: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Services Preview

  • Identity Service (Keystone)
  • Image Service (Glance)
  • Compute Service (Nova)
  • Block Service (Cinder)
  • Network Service (Neutron)
  • Dashboard (Horizon)
  • Telemetry Service (Ceilometer)
  • Orchestration Service (Heat)

Module 15: Review the Red Hat OpenStack Architecture

  • Virtual Networking
  • Storage Virtualization
  • Network High-availability Design
  • OpenStack Services Placement
  • Sizing Guidelines
  • Defining the Reference Workload

Module 16: Architecting for the Cloud

  • Cloud Security Architectures VMware, OpenStack, and AWS
  • Private, Public and Hybrid Basic Cloud Architectures (VMware, OpenStack, AWS)
  • Virtual Network Basics
  • ISDN and NFV
  • Integration with the Enterprise
  • Deploying VMware
    • Basic Virtual Networking
    • NSX and SDDC
  • VMware Cloud Security Architectures for Private Cloud

Module 17: GigaVUE-VM Installation and Mapping

  • Connecting to vCenter
  • Deploying GigaVue-VM
  • Installation Best Practices
  • Virtual Rules Configuration

LAB EXERCISES

  • Lab 1: Online Help
  • Lab 2: Port Behavior Setup
  • Lab 3: Passall Configuration
  • Lab 4: Adding a VLAN Tag to Ingress Traffic
  • Lab 5: Simple Flow Map Configuration
  • Lab 6: More Complex Flow Map Configuration with Rule Prioritization
  • Lab 7: Shared Collector Configuration
  • Lab 8: User-Defined Attribute (UDA) Filter
  • Lab 9: Tool Mirror
  • Lab 10: Replication and Egress Filtering
  • Lab 11: Installing vSphere Client
  • Lab 12: Configuring ESXi Hosts
  • Lab 13: Working with Virtual Machines
  • Lab 14: Working with vCenter Server
  • Lab 15: Using vSphere Web Client
  • Lab 16: Using Standard vSwitches
  • Lab 17: Using vSphere Distributed Switches
  • Lab 18: Accessing iSCSI Storage
  • Lab 19: Accessing NFS Storage
  • Lab 20: Managing VMFS Datastores
  • Lab 21: Architecture for Public Cloud
  • Lab 22: Architecture for Private Cloud
  • Lab 23: Install and Configure GigaVUE-VM for a VMware environment
  • Lab 24: Install and Configure GigaVUE-VM for an OpenStack environment