by Rich Bourdeau
If you are interested in learning more about how to efficiently manage VMware NSX in order to deliver secure scalable high-performing applications on demand, you will want to attend some of these VMworld 2015 breakout sessions and hands on labs.
Breakout Sessions
- NET5187 – What’s New in Operations Management for Networking with NSX and others
Monday Aug 31, 1:30-2:30
Bill Roth – Group Manager, Marketing, VMware
This talk will discuss the new features in vRealize Operations Insight related to the management and content packs contain support for VMware’s NSX product line, as well as other network products.
- MGT5360 – Introducing Application Self-service with Networking and Security Using vRealize Automation and NSX
Monday Aug 31, 3:00-4:00
Andrew Voltmer – Product Line Manager, VMware
Becky Smith – Senior Product Line Manager, VMware
This session will cover the self-service catalog delivery of applications and infrastructure including their on-demand networking and security needs through integration of VMware’s vRealize Automation and NSX solutions. Learn how to solve your IT demand challenges by reducing service delivery times from weeks to minutes.
- MGT6527-GD – Cloud Automation with NSX Networking and Security with Becky Smith
Monday Aug 31 4:30-5:30
Becky Smith – Senior Product Line Manager, VMware
Group Discussions are a good way to join together with peers, guided by a VMware expert, and discuss a VMware key topic as selected by the group. Come to this session prepared to dive-in, engage, and share best practices.
- MGT5973 – Automate the Deployment of NSX and Micro-Segmentation: A Deep Dive
Tuesday Sep 1, 2:30-3:30
Justin Jones – Consulting Architect, Integration and Automation, VMware
Mitesh Pancholy – PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT, VMworld
VMware has collaborated on the design and deployment of many self-service network provisioning platforms. These platforms offer user-controlled application micro-segmentation and self-service provisioned virtual machines, with a wide range of technology and software including vRealize Automation, vRealize Orchestrator, and VMware NSX. We will demonstrate the capabilities of such a system and provide best practices for automating micro-segmentation in your own environment.
- NET5772 – A Case Study in the University of New Mexico’s Transition for Legacy Networking to SDN/NSX to Enhance IaaS and SDDCs
Tuesday, Sept 1 5:30-6:30
University of New Mexico’s IT provides IaaS via vRAC and Lobocloud, a self-service portal to the UNM community. Servers are provisioned in minutes through automation, however network provisioning and configuration was still manual. We needed to improve IaaS with automated network provisioning and configuration ultimately providing software defined data centers (SDDC) to departments. Our datacenter network design was based on legacy concepts. A transition to SDN was needed to achieve automated network provisioning and configuration. We chose NSX as our SDN solution. Please join us as we walk you through our experience of implementing NSX.
David Jones – System Specialist, University of New Mexico
David Sieger – Network Engineer, University of New Mexico
- NET5362 – Enabling Automated Network & Security Services with NSX and vRealize Automation
Wednesday Sep 2, 10:00-11:00
Francesco Vigo – Senior Systems Engineer, NSX, VMware
Ray Budavari – Technical Product Line Manager, VMware
NSX enables organizations to streamline network and security service provisioning within the Data Center, while vRealize Automation integrates with NSX, providing out of the box automated provisioning of different network types, plus security and load balancing services at application deployment time. There are several key use cases for this integration and in addition these capabilities can be extended by leveraging vRA components such as the Advanced Services Designed and the Extensibility Framework. This session is focused on real world use cases for NSX and vRA, plus using vRA extensibility to consume advanced NSX network services.
Hands on Labs
- HOL-SDC-1624 – VMware NSX and the vRealize Suite
This NSX lab covers integration of NSX with components of the vRealize Suite to deliver on the Software Defined Datacenter. Integration of NSX with Management components like vRealize Automation (vRA), vRealize Operations (vROPs) and vRealize Log Insight is covered in this lab.
- HOL-SDC-1632 vRealize Automation Advanced: Integration and Extensibility
This advanced lab will cover more Advanced NSX use cases as well as explore out-of-the-box integrations with other vRealize Suite products, and you will learn all about extending the provisioning life-cycle for many common use cases. Using vRealize Orchestrator and its plugins, you will learn how to implement custom host naming and integration with Infoblox and Puppet. You will explore the vRealize Automation API.
If you are not familiar with NSX you might want to take at least the Introduction lab first.
- HOL-SDC-1603 – VMware NSX Introduction
VMware NSX is the platform for Network Virtualization. You will gain hands-on experience with Logical Switching, Distributed Logical Routing, Dynamic Routing, Distributed Firewall and Logical Network Services. This lab introduces the core capabilities of VMware NSX in vSphere environments used to enable Network and Security virtualization. - HOL-SDC-1625 – VMware NSX Advanced
This lab covers advanced NSX topics and builds on the basics learned in the “VMware NSX Introduction (HOL-SDC-1603)” lab. Attendees will extend NSX into a dual vCenter environment to experience multi-site virtual networking and security. This will include VPN and Hardware VTEP integration.
