• Use native NSX tools to diagnose operational issues.
• Analyze management, control, and data plane problems.
• Troubleshoot logical switching and routing.
• Diagnose Distributed and Gateway Firewall issues.
• Troubleshoot Distributed IDS/IPS, VPN, and Edge services.
• Use packet captures, NSX CLI, and hypervisor commands.
• Work with VMware Aria Operations tools for NSX monitoring and troubleshooting.

Module 1: Course Introduction

• Introduction and course logistics
• Course objectives

Module 2: NSX Operations and Tools

• Explain and validate native NSX troubleshooting tools
• Configure syslog, IPFIX, and log collections
• Integrate NSX with VMware Aria Operations for Logs
• Integrate NSX with VMware Aria Operations for Networks
• Validate and review API methods available for NSX configuration

Module 3: Troubleshooting the NSX Management Cluster

• NSX Management cluster architecture
• Management cluster components and communication channels
• Management cluster configuration workflows
• Validate NSX Management cluster formation
• Troubleshoot Management cluster issues

Module 4: Troubleshooting Infrastructure Preparation

• NSX data plane architecture
• Data plane components and communication channels
• Troubleshoot VMware ESXi transport node preparation
• Troubleshoot NSX Edge deployment issues

Module 5: Troubleshooting Logical Switching

• Logical switching architecture
• Modules and processes involved in logical switching
• Importance of VDS in transport nodes
• Workload-to-segment attachment workflows
• Troubleshoot common logical switching issues

Module 6: Troubleshooting Logical Routing

• Logical routing architecture
• Tier-0 and Tier-1 gateway configuration workflows
• High availability modes
• Logical router placement
• Troubleshoot logical routing using BGP and OSPF
• Perform packet captures at different datapath points

Module 7: Troubleshooting Security

• Distributed Firewall architecture
• Distributed Firewall configuration workflows
• Gateway Firewall architecture
• Gateway Firewall configuration workflows
• Troubleshoot Distributed Firewall issues
• Troubleshoot Gateway Firewall issues
• Distributed IDS/IPS architecture and workflows
• Troubleshoot Distributed IDS/IPS problems

Module 8: Troubleshooting NSX Advanced Load Balancer and VPN Services

• NSX Advanced Load Balancer architecture and components
• Troubleshoot NSX Advanced Load Balancer issues
• IPsec VPN architecture and components
• Layer 2 VPN architecture and components
• Troubleshoot IPsec and L2 VPN issues

Module 9: Datapath Walkthrough

• Verify and validate packet paths through the NSX datapath
• Perform packet captures at different datapath points
• Use NSX CLI commands
• Use native hypervisor commands to retrieve datapath configuration

5 Days

• Validate native NSX troubleshooting tools.
• Configure syslog, IPFIX, and NSX log collection.
• Integrate NSX with VMware Aria Operations for Logs.
• Integrate NSX with VMware Aria Operations for Networks.
• Troubleshoot NSX Management cluster issues.
• Troubleshoot ESXi transport node preparation.
• Troubleshoot NSX Edge deployment issues.
• Diagnose logical switching and segment connectivity problems.
• Troubleshoot Tier-0 and Tier-1 logical routing.
• Analyze BGP and OSPF routing issues.
• Troubleshoot Distributed and Gateway Firewall configurations.
• Investigate Distributed IDS/IPS issues.
• Troubleshoot NSX Advanced Load Balancer services.
• Troubleshoot IPsec and Layer 2 VPN services.
• Perform packet captures across the NSX datapath.
• Use NSX CLI and native hypervisor commands for troubleshooting.

• Certification: VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization (VCP-NV)
• Exam: VMware NSX 4.x Professional
• Exam Code: 2V0-41.24
• Questions: 70
• Duration: 135 minutes
• Passing Score: 300 scaled score

• Experienced System Administrators
• Network Administrators
• Network Engineers
• Network Security Professionals
• VMware NSX Administrators
• Professionals responsible for enterprise network operations and troubleshooting

• Completion of VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage [V4.0]
• Good understanding of TCP/IP services and protocols
• Working knowledge of L2/L3 switching and routing
• Knowledge of L4–L7 network and application delivery services
• Understanding of L4–L7 firewalling
• Working experience with VMware vSphere environments
• VCP-NV certification is recommended.