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