VMware NSX: Introduction to Routing and Switching

Course Description

VMware NSX: Introduction to Routing and Switching prepares infrastructure and application professionals to work confidently with Network virtualization principles, NSX architecture, managers, control and data planes, Segments, VLAN-backed and overlay networks, logical ports. Activities emphasize repeatable configuration, realistic tests, evidence quality, and accountable handover.

Practical work also covers Tier-0 and tier-1 gateways, connected routes, static routes, route advertisement, Traceflow, packet capture, port status. Evidence such as NSX component map and transport-path walkthrough, segment configuration record and layer-two connectivity test, logical routing diagram and route-table validation, introductory NSX troubleshooting checklist and path evidence supports boundary testing, fault isolation, corrective action, and safe transition to operational ownership.

On completing the course, learners can defend the implementation and operation of a clear foundation in NSX logical switching and routing, including segments, gateways, transport concepts, packet paths, connectivity validation, and basic troubleshooting. A final plan identifies acceptance gaps, rollback considerations, owners, and operational safeguards.

What You Will Learn

• Explain how Network virtualization principles, NSX architecture, and managers establish the technical foundation and influence later design decisions.
• Configure control and data planes, transport zones, host switches, transport nodes, TEPs, and overlay concepts, then confirm readiness through NSX component map and transport-path walkthrough instead of relying on completion messages alone.
• Execute a controlled workflow covering Segments, VLAN-backed and overlay networks, and logical ports, preserving prerequisites, changes, and resulting service behavior.
• Read segment configuration record and layer-two connectivity test to isolate two workloads sharing an address range while attached to isolated segments, separate symptoms from causes, and choose a correction that can be safely retested.
• Integrate Tier-0 and tier-1 gateways, connected routes, and static routes with access, capacity, resilience, and downstream operational expectations.
• Challenge route advertisement, BGP concepts, edge nodes, north-south paths, and service routing using normal and boundary cases, then defend the outcome with logical routing diagram and route-table validation.
• Investigate a routing change fixing one path while creating an unintended route leak by reviewing Traceflow, packet capture, and port status before applying a reversible fix.
• Prepare introductory NSX troubleshooting checklist and path evidence that demonstrates topology views, logs, common switching faults, routing faults, rollback, monitoring, and support handover and supports handover, monitoring, governance, and the next improvement decision.

SkillDynamo Training Approach

Sessions move from concept mapping to guided build, scenario analysis, evidence-based validation, reversible correction, operational review, and improvement planning. Both expected flows and failure conditions are tested before a result is accepted.