VMware vSphere Advanced Networking
This course is a deep dive into vSphere administration and troubleshooting.
What you'll learn
This course is a deep dive into vSphere administration and troubleshooting. Virtualization is becoming a norm in most data centers and the evolution of network administration is growing more and more with new technologies. VMware has stepped up and added many new technologies and features to vSphere networking to help meet these new challenges head on. In this course you will learn advanced topics like vSwitch components, port mirroring, load based teaming, vSphere security considerations, and more. It’s recommended that students come into this course with knowledge of virtualization fundamentals and have experience working with vSphere.
Table of contents
- Introduction 1m
- Review and Primer 2m
- vSphere vSwitches 3m
- A Word About vSwitches 3m
- Components of a vSwitch Architecture 2m
- Lab - Overview of a vSwitch 6m
- Why All the Different vNICs? 4m
- Tips for Changing vNIC Types 1m
- Lab - Changing vNIC Type 5m
- Physical NICs (pNICs): Features, Options and Virtualization 6m
- Pure Performance with VMDirectPath 3m
- Diagram Showing VMDirectPath 1m
- Lab - Configuring VMDirectPath 7m
- Your Virtual Switching Options 2m
- Cisco's Nexus 1000v Virtual Switch 2m
- Which vSwitch for You? 3m
- What We Covered 2m
- Introduction 1m
- What Exactly Are VLANs? 5m
- VLAN Recommendations 5m
- Who Does the Tagging? 4m
- VLAN Tagging: Physical Switch, Virtual Switch, and Guest OS 4m
- Gotchas When Using VLANs 2m
- Lab - Configuring VLAN Tagging 5m
- Going Even Further with Private VLANs 2m
- Confused Yet? Primary and Secondary VLANs 4m
- Overview of PVLANs 2m
- Lab - Configuring Private VLANs 10m
- vSwitch Security Configuration 2m
- Where Do VM MAC Addresses Come From? 3m
- Lab - vSwitch Security and MAC Address 2m
- What We Covered 2m
- Introduction 2m
- Security Considerations in Your vNetwork Design 4m
- Firewall Ports 1m
- Configuring the vNetwork for Different Trust Zones 1m
- Deployment Types for Different Trust Zones 8m
- Top 10 Common Mistakes and Recommendations 4m
- Security Considerations with vSphere vSwitches and vSphere vDS 3m
- Protecting Your Management Communications 3m
- Isolating Management - Sharing NICs and Dedicated NICs 1m
- An Overview of the vShield Suite 12m
- Lab - vShield Tour 11m
- Third-Party Security Tools 1m
- What We Covered 3m
- Introduction 1m
- What's the Big Deal? 1m
- Every Environment is Different 2m
- Connectivity Best Practices 4m
- Topology Suggestions 2m
- A Bigger Hammer - 10Gb Ethernet 5m
- Physical Switch Configuration 7m
- Lab - Switch Configuration 18m
- Load Balancing and Teaming 3m
- Network Teaming 11m
- Load Balancing In-Depth: Virtual Port ID, MAC Hash, and IP Hash 13m
- Load Balancing: Load-Based Teaming 4m
- Lab - Load-Based Teaming 11m
- What We Covered 4m
- Introduction 1m
- What is the vSphere Distributed Switch? 4m
- Terms and Ideas 1m
- What is Required to Use the vDS? 1m
- Any Downsides to the vDS? 3m
- vDS Design Considerations 1m
- Lab - Creating a New vSphere Distributed Switch 22m
- Configuring the Main vDS 1m
- vDS Uplink Names 2m
- Creating Port-Groups 1m
- Ports and Port Binding 6m
- vDS and Virtual vCenter? 2m
- Traffic Separation with vDS 5m
- vDS Uplink 5m
- Lab - Traffic Separation 10m
- Lab - Upgrading the vDS Version 2m
- What We Covered 2m
- Introduction 1m
- The Purpose of Traffic Shaping 3m
- Standard Rate Limiting and Traffic Shaping 1m
- Traffic Shaping Parameters 3m
- vDS Traffic Shaping Options 2m
- vDS Basic Traffic Shaping 1m
- Network I/O Control (NIOC) 1m
- Shares, Limits, and CoS Tags 4m
- Lab - Configure NIOC 13m
- Considerations with Traffic Shaping 3m
- Let's Talk About Jumbo Frames 5m
- Lab - Configure Jumbo Frames 7m
- What We Covered 3m
- Introduction 1m
- Narrowing Down the Problem 2m
- Common Issue: VLAN Tagging, Hashing Types, Jumbo Frames 9m
- Remove Host From vDS 1m
- vCenter of Environment Outage? 3m
- Network Monitoring Using NetFlow 2m
- NetFlow Configuration 2m
- Lab - NetFlow 8m
- Network Statistics with vCenter 1m
- Network Statistics with esxtop 1m
- Third-Party Tools 2m
- Lab - Network Statistics 8m
- Port Mirroring 1m
- Configuring Port Mirroring 2m
- Lab - Port Mirroring 7m
- What We Covered 3m
About the author
Jason Nash has over 15 years of industry experience and is currently the Data Center Solutions Principal at Varrow, a leader in virtualization, storage, and DR located in the southeast. Before Varrow, Jason was a Platform Architect at a large investment bank where he helped to develop the organization's IT strategy. He has published several books on networking, Windows, and Linux. Jason was designated a vExpert by VMware and holds a BS in Networking Technology and a MS in Information Security.