Info from Simon Reynolds following NSX-T 2.4 ICM classes June 2019 — test page
1. VCP-NV 2019 – NSX-T 2.4 exam now out!
https://www.vmware.com/education-services/certification/vcp-nv-nsxt-2019-exam.html
2. Communities forum for nsx
https://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/nsx
Documents here:
Discussions here:
3. Load Balancing
Dimitri Desmidt’s guide to load balancing in NSX-T (latest version – May 2019):
plus demo video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS6Yfy9qJGA&t=52s
4. Logical routing
Dumlu Timuralp NSX deepdive ppt (copy in location??? above) is definitely worth reading.
Amit Aneja from VMware has written four really helpful blog posts:
https://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization/2017/09/nsx-t-routing-where-you-need-it.html/
https://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization/2018/01/nsx-t-routing-part-2.html/
https://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization/2018/02/nsx-t-multi-tiered-routing-architecture.html/
5. Links to recordings of NSX-T presentations at VMworld 2018 US and Europe…
On N-VDS:
https://videos.vmworld.com/global/2018/videoplayer/22740
I really like this presentation from Francois Tallet:
https://videos.vmworld.com/global/2018/videoplayer/26703
On logical routing:
https://videos.vmworld.com/global/2018/videoplayer/22608
and two from Nimish Desai on design (these are really good):
https://videos.vmworld.com/global/2018/videoplayer/22674
https://videos.vmworld.com/global/2018/videoplayer/22675
6. Core Design Info
NSX-T Design reference guide:
VMware Validated Designs — new Version 5.0 released 22 January 2019:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Validated-Design/index.html
7. Containers and PKS
Keith Lee (all you need to know about PKS!) – what a great resource:
http://keithlee.ie/
Good general intro to containers from VMware:
Hany Michaels has some good intro to Kubernetes:
https://www.hanymichaels.com/2017/10/11/kubernetes-introduction-for-vmware-users/
and PKS and NSX-T:
https://www.hanymichaels.com/category/nsx-t/
Cormac Hogan on PKS:
https://cormachogan.com/2018/04/24/a-simple-pivotal-container-service-pks-deployment/
William Lam has a nice series on getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) starting with an overview here:
Blog from VMware’s Narayan Mandaleeka:
https://blogs.vmware.com/cloudnative/2018/02/12/pivotal-container-service-ga/
Blog from Prasad Kalpurekkal, Art Fewell, and Alka Gupta:
PKS and Multiple T0s:
https://docs.pivotal.io/runtimes/pks/1-2/nsxt-multi-t0.html
NCP info:
8. NSX-T Performance
Samuel Kommu’s performance presentation from VMworld US:
https://videos.vmworld.com/global/2018/videoplayer/19005
9. Security Guides
NSX-T 2.4 security guides (pdf and xlsx) are here:
https://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-39487
10. NSX-T Multisite Lite
Good info here:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/disaster-recovery-using-multisite-light-nsx-t-24-iwan-hoogendoorn/
VMware doc here – version 2.0:
11. General
William Lam’s two pages of links to VMworld 2018 (US and Europe) presentations (stream, download, and watermarked pdfs (pdfs only at US site)):
https://github.com/lamw/vmworld2018-session-urls/blob/master/vmworld-us-playback-urls.md
https://github.com/lamw/vmworld2018-session-urls/blob/master/vmworld-eu-playback-urls.md