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This three-day, hands-on training course provides you with the skills, techniques, and tools required tsuccessfully migrate your current VMware NSX® Data Center for vSphere® environment tVMware NSX-T™ Data Center. You will learn tchoose between different migration approaches and how tperform the type of migration that best suits your current environment. In addition, you are presented with common migration problems and resolutions.

Audience

Experienced system administrators and network administrators
Network and security professionals whwork with enterprise and data center networks

Product Alignment

VMware NSX-T Data Center 3.2

Before taking this course, you must complete the following course:

VMware NSX-T Data Center: Install, Configure, Manage [V3.2]

You should alshave understanding or knowledge of these technologies:

Good understanding of TCP/IP services and protocols
Knowledge and working experience of computer networking and security, including:
- Switching and routing technologies (L2-L3)
- Network and application delivery services (L4-L7)
- Firewalling (L4-L7)
- VMware vSphere® environments

The VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization certification is recommended.

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

Contrast NSX-T Data Center and NSX Data Center for vSphere architectures
Understand the networking and security features of NSX-T Data Center
Compare end-to-end and lift-and-shift migration approaches
Identify common fixed network topologies supported in end-to-end migrations
Perform end-to-end migrations for fixed and user-defined topologies
Describe other migration modes supported by the migration coordinator
Describe lift-and-shift migration techniques
Troubleshoot common problems with end-to-end and lift-and-shift migrations
Describe the steps to perform a cross-vCenter NSX to NSX Federation migration

1 Course Introduction

Introduction and course logistics
Course objectives

2 Introduction to NSX-T Data Center

Describe the motivation for migrating to NSX-T Data Center
Contrast NSX-T Data Center and NSX Data Center for vSphere architectures
Describe the logical switching components in NSX-T Data Center
Describe the components and functions of NSX-T Data Center logical routing
Describe the security features of NSX-T Data Center
Explain the implementation of networking services in NSX-T Data Center

3 Migration Approaches

Describe the end-to-end migration approach
Describe the lift-and-shift migration approach
Compare the migration approaches
Determine the best migration strategy based on customer requirements

4 Fixed Topologies for Migration

Identify the NSX Data Center for vSphere fixed network topologies that can be migrated to NSX-T Data Center without a user-defined topology
Explain how network and security objects from the fixed topologies are translated from NSX Data Center for vSphere to NSX-T Data Center

5 End-to-End Migration

Describe the prerequisites for end-to-end migration
Prepare the NSX Data Center for vSphere environment for migration
Prepare the NSX-T Data Center environment for migration
Migrate the NSX Data Center for vSphere environment with the migration coordinator using a fixed topology
Migrate the NSX Data Center for vSphere environment with the migration coordinator using a user-defined topology
Perform postmigration tasks

6 Other Migration Modes

Describe the steps to migrate NSX Data Center for vSphere when integrated with VMware vRealize® Automation™
Describe the Edge Cutover migration mode
Describe the Distributed Firewall migration mode
Describe the Distributed Firewall, Host, and Workload migration mode
Describe the vSphere Networking migration feature

7 Lift-and-Shift Migration

Describe the prerequisites for lift-and-shift migrations
Configure L2 bridging in preparation for lift-and-shift migrations
Migrate the network and security configuration
Migrate workloads
Describe the DFW-only migration mode

8 Troubleshooting Migrations

Troubleshoot migration problems
Identify the log files used in troubleshooting
Identify and resolve common issues related to migrations.

9 Cross-vCenter NSX to NSX Federation Migration

Contrast cross-vCenter NSX and NSX Federation architectures
Describe the steps for a multisite migration
Demonstrate how to perform a cross-vCenter NSX to NSX Federation migration

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Join our public courses in our New Zealand facilities. Private class trainings will be organized at the location of your preference, according to your schedule.

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01 August 2024