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VMware NSX-T Virtual Lab

This is an On-Demand Lab for VMware NSX-T. It provides the same lab experience as the one day NSX-T training class but without the slide content and on-site architect. This lab is not meant to teach operations, best practices or replace VMware's hands-on classes.
Foundations Lab
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Data Center Networking

NSX on ACI Lab

This is an On-Demand Lab for VMware NSX-T running on top of Cisco ACI. With this lab, you will be able to access a live lab with NSX-T configured to utilize ACI with both a single and double overlay implementation. The lab will step you through viewing the configuration for both ACI and NSX-T.
Advanced Configuration Lab
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Data Center Networking

NSX-T Virtual Lab Walkthrough

This 11-part video series helps outline the NSX-T Virtual Lab.
Playlist
Nov 28, 2022
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Data Center Networking

NSX-T Virtual Lab 13: Distributed Firewall

The NSX-T Distributed Firewall is a powerful feature that provides robust security at the vNIC level, allowing for segmentation of workloads in a myriad of ways. In this lab, you will utilize the groups you created using tags (in Lab 12) to deploy firewall rules.
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• 10:29
Nov 2, 2022
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Data Center Networking

NSX-T Virtual Lab 12: Tags & Groups

VMware NSX-T provides a robust tagging mechanism that allows metadata to be applied to nearly every logical object created within the system. Tags can also be applied to workloads that are part of the NSX environment, such as virtual machines.
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• 8:28
Nov 2, 2022
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Data Center Networking

NSX-T Virtual Labs 9-11: Configure VMs, Explore Routing and Test 3-Tier App

In these labs, you will be migrating the three-tier app virtual machines to your new NSX segments. Then you will verify that all the application components are reachable and that BGP is peering correctly. Lastly, you will confirm that the three-tier app is working appropriately.
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• 12:37
Nov 2, 2022
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Data Center Networking

NSX-T Virtual Lab 8: Configure Logical Routing

In this lab, you will configure the distributed logical routing components of NSX-T. Though not required, we will be creating a two-tier routing topology, with one Tier-0 and Tier-1 router respectively.
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• 14:53
Nov 2, 2022
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Data Center Networking

NSX-T Virtual Lab 7: Configure Logical Switching

Logical switching is configured as "segments" within NSX-T. Previously known as "logical switches," segments represent Layer 2 broadcast domains within the NSX-T environment. These segments can be deployed on both the N-VDS and native vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS) and will be backed by either a VLAN or Overlay transport zone.
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• 4:22
Nov 2, 2022
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Data Center Networking

NSX-T Virtual Lab 6: Deploy Edge Node

An NSX Edge Transport Node is a node within NSX-T that has several functions, including acting as the gateway into and out of the NSX-T fabric. In this section, we will be deploying an edge in the virtual machine form factor so that the endpoints in our environment can access external resources.
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• 12:57
Nov 2, 2022
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Data Center Networking

NSX-T Virtual Lab 5: Prepare ESX Hosts for NSX-T

Here you will be preparing the VMware hosts within the "Compute" cluster to be NSX Transport Nodes. During this process, NSX Manager will install various components on the host and will provision the TEP interface.
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• 5:37
Nov 2, 2022
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Data Center Networking

NSX-T Virtual Lab 4: Inventory Preparation

In this lab, we will be creating objects that will help us lay the foundation for our NSX-T environment.
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• 9:56
Nov 2, 2022
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Data Center Networking

NSX-T Virtual Lab 3: Add Compute Manager

In the context of NSX-T, a compute manager is a system that manages hypervisor hosts and their accompanying virtualized workloads. A prime example of this is VMware vCenter Server.
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• 4:11
Nov 2, 2022
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Data Center Networking

NSX-T Virtual Lab 2: Add vSphere Distributed Switch

In this lab, you will be adding a new distributed switch to your vSphere environment.
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• 6:17
Nov 2, 2022
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Data Center Networking

NSX-T Virtual Lab 1: Explore NSX-T Environment

In this lab, you'll spend some time familiarizing yourself with the lab environment you will be working in.
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• 10:21
Nov 2, 2022
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Cloud Management

Operationalizing Multicloud with VMware: Four Case Studies

Organizations modernizing their IT strategy are standardizing on multi-cloud as the approach that offers the flexibility and agility to meet business and technology goals. But deciding on a multicloud strategy is only the first step to unlocking the full benefits of a dynamic IT environment.
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• Aug 9, 2022
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DevOps

VMware vSphere with Tanzu Fundamentals Lab Module 4: Bonus Walkthrough

This is a narrated walkthrough of Module 4 - Bonus from the VMware vSphere and Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Fundamentals Lab.
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• 10:23
Jul 14, 2022
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DevOps

VMware vSphere with Tanzu Fundamentals Lab Module 3: TKG Application Deployment Walkthrough

This is a narrated walkthrough of Module 3 - TKG Application Deployment from the VMware vSphere and Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Fundamentals Lab.
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• 4:28
Jul 14, 2022
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DevOps

VMware vSphere with Tanzu Fundamentals Lab Module 2: TKG Cluster Creation Walkthrough

This is a narrated walkthrough of Module 2 - TKG Cluster Creation from the VMware vSphere and Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Fundamentals Lab.
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• 10:03
Jul 14, 2022
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DevOps

VMware vSphere with Tanzu Fundamentals Lab Module 1: Environment Overview Walkthrough

This is a narrated walkthrough of Module 1 - Environment Overview from the VMware vSphere and Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Fundamentals Lab.
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• 6:09
Jul 14, 2022
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Cloud Strategy

Key Takeaways From VMware EMPOWER 2022

VMware held their annual EMPOWER for the Americas in May of 2022. The three day virtual partner conference consisted of general/breakout sessions, "ask the expert" sessions, hands-on labs and technical training. All the sessions were available to VMware partners online, but there are often themes and details that get lost along the way. So, we asked WWT's VMware technical experts what they found most interesting from EMPOWER. Here is what they had to say.
Article
• Jun 20, 2022