vSphere Advanced Networking Training Series

Lesson 1: Getting started
• About Your Instructor
• Who Should Watch This Course?
• What We Cover in the Course
Lesson 2: Lab Setup and Recommendations
• An Overview of My Lab
• Lab – Tour of the Lab Environment
• Why Build a Lab?
• Recommendations for Your Lab
Lesson 3: Let’s Talk About vSphere Networking
• Review and Primer
• vSphere vSwitches
• A Word About vSwitches
• Components of a vSwitch Architecture
• Lab – Overview of a vSwitch
• Why All the Different vNICs?
• Tips for Changing vNIC Types
• Lab – Changing vNIC Type
• About Physical NICs (pNICs): Features, Options, and Virtualization
• Pure Performance with VMDirectPath
• Lab – Configuring VMDirectPath
• Your Virtual Switching Options
• Cisco's Nexus 1000v Virtual Switch
• Which vSwitch for You?
Lesson 4: The Ins and Outs of VLANs
• What Exactly Are VLANs?
• VLAN Recommendations
• Who Does the Tagging?
• VLAN Tagging: Physical Switch, Virtual Switch, and Guest OS
• Gotchas When Using VLANs
• Lab – Configuring VLAN Tagging
• Going Even Further with Private VLANs
• Confused Yet? Primary and Secondary VLANs
• Overview of PVLANs
• Lab – Configuring Private VLANs
• vSwitch Security Configuration
• Where Do VM MAC Addresses Come From?
• Lab – vSwitch Security and MAC Address
Lesson 5: Sphere Network Security Considerations
• Security Considerations in Your vNetwork Design
• Firewall Ports
• Configuring the vNetwork for Different Trust Zones
• Deployment Types for Different Trust Zones: Partially Collapsed and Fully Collapsed
• Top 10 Common Mistakes and Recommendations
• Security Considerations with the vSphere vSwitches and vSphere vDS
• Protecting Your Management Communications
• Isolating Management – Sharing NICs and Dedicated NICs
• An Overview of the vShield Suite
• Lab – vShield Tour
• Third-Party Security Tools
Lesson 6: Physically Connecting vSphere Hosts
• What’s the Big Deal?
• Every Environment is Different
• Connectivity Best Practices
• Topology Suggestions
• A Bigger Hammer – 10Gb Ethernet
• Physical Switch Configuration
• Lab – Switch Configuration
• Load Balancing and Teaming
• Network Teaming
• Load Balancing In-Depth: Virtual Port ID, MAC Hash, and IP Hash
• Load Balancing: Load-Based Teaming
• Lab – Load-Based Teaming
Lesson 7: vSphere Distributed Switch – In Depth
• What is the vSphere Distributed Switch?
• Terms and Ideas
• What is Required to Use the vDS?
• Any Downsides to the vDS?
• vDS Design Considerations
• Lab – Creating a New vSphere Distributed Switch
• Configuring the Main vDS
• vDS Uplink Names
• Creating Port-Groups
• Ports and Port Binding
• Port Binding Recommendations
• vDS and Virtual vCenter?
• Traffic Separation with vDS
• vDS Uplink
• Lab – Traffic Separation
• Lab – Upgrading the vDS Version
Lesson 8: Migration to the vDS
• Migrating to the vDS
• Walking Hosts Over
• Words of Warning
• Lab – vDS Migration
Lesson 9: Traffic Shaping and Resource Pools
• The Purpose of Traffic Shaping
• Standard Rate Limiting and Traffic Shaping
• Traffic Shaping Parameters
• vDS Traffic Shaping Options
• vDS Basic Traffic Shaping
• Network I/O Control (NIOC)
• Shares, Limits, and CoS Tags
• Lab – Configure NIOC
• Considerations with Traffic Shaping
• Let's Talk About Jumbo Frames
• Lab – Configure Jumbo Frames
Lesson 10: Troubleshooting Network Connectivity
• Narrowing Down the Problem
• Common Issues: VLAN Tagging, Hashing Types, Jumbo Frames
• Remove Host From vDS
• vCenter of Environment Outage?
• Network Monitoring Using NetFlow
• NetFlow Configuration
• Network Statistics with vCenter
• Network Statistics with esxtop
• Third-Party Tools
• Lab – Network Statistics
• Port Mirroring
• Configuring Port Mirroring
• Lab – Port Mirroring
Lesson 11: Next Steps
• In this lesson, we wrap up the course and go over some next steps and suggestions for continuing your education.