Eric Sloof

NSX is VMware's networking platform that allows networks and services to be deployed programmatically and is a crucial component in software-defined data centers.

This video course provides step-by-step instructions to help you quickly deploy SDN in production and perform network virtualization with VMware. It will help you install and configure NSX and show you how to deploy NSX on top of your existing physical network and gain control of every aspect of network components (switches and routers) and your connected IT workloads.

The next section covers how to deploy and configure VxLAN-based switches and manage and configure network and gateway services. Finally, you will learn how to use NSX to secure your environment. After finishing this course, you will be able to deploy and maintain network virtualizations and automate your VMware-based infrastructure in less time and in a cost-effective manner. All this will be covered through a practical real-world example right from the start of the course.

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I've created a playlist with some of the top VMworld 2016 sessions. These sessions are free to wacht at this playlist hosted by VMworld TV.

VMworld 2016: MGT7718 - The KISS of vRealize Operations!
VMworld 2016: INF9083 - Ask the vCenter Server Experts Panel
VMworld 2016: VIRT7621 - Virtualize Active Directory, the Right Way!
VMworld 2016: EUC7601 - Advances in Remote Display Protocol Tec
VMworld 2016: INF8038 - Getting Started with PowerShell and PowerCLI for Your VMware Environment
VMworld 2016: INF8036 - Enforcing a vSphere Cluster Design with PowerCLI Automation
VMworld 2016: STO7645 - Virtual Volumes Technical Deep Dive

With the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC), VMware laid out the vision for the architecture of the hybrid cloud. SDDC redefines the architecture and operational model of the data center, enabling IT to complete the transition to hybrid cloud and maximize its benefits. In an SDDC, compute, storage, and networking services are decoupled from underlying hardware infrastructure and abstracted into logical pools of resources that can be more flexibly provisioned and managed.


To accelerate the customer journey to SDDC, VMware has introduced VMware Cloud Foundation™, a new unified SDDC platform for the private and public cloud. Cloud Foundation brings together VMware’s compute, storage, and network virtualization into a natively integrated stack that can be deployed on premises or run as a service from the public cloud.
Cloud Foundation enables organizations to achieve greater business agility and scalability to support the next generation of applications.

While public cloud services can be a good fit for many applications, company-owned data centers continue to play a critical role especially for those mission-critical applications that require greater control and security. As a result, organizations are looking to shift to a more agile, service-oriented IT model that leverages both private and public clouds. Cloud Foundation allows CIOs to enable their business to achieve the operational and cost efficiency of web-scale cloud service providers.

VMware Cloud Foundation 

vRealize Suite is an enterprise-ready, cloud management platform that delivers the industry’s most complete solution for managing a heterogeneous, hybrid cloud. In this demo we will show you some of the common use cases and personas to drive value more quickly to your business.

The video walks you through the process of starting and running a VSAN Assessment. It also highlights new features that were released on August 1st 2016: Semi-offline mode and TCO (storage efficiency) benefits.

If you want to create your own designs, document your home lab or present a design to a customer. I'm sure you want it to look professional.  VMware has made some NSX powerpoint icons available in this document.


There are also some other Useful NSX Resources like links to hand on labs and community URL's available here.

Kyle Ruddy covers examples of adding a host to a vCenter Server system, setting the host to be in maintenance mode, licensing the host, adding an NTP server, setting up the networking and adding datastores to the host.

This guide provides the necessary information for optimizing a Windows virtual desktop or server master image for use in View in Horizon 6 or Horizon 7, or in Horizon Air Cloud-Hosted.

The document is a companion to the VMware OSOT Fling (Operating System Optimization Tool). The document describes optimizations for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2012.


These recommended optimizations enhance the overall scalability and performance within a View virtual desktop infrastructure or Horizon Air cloud tenant environment.

The App Volumes FAQ provides answers to critical questions about using App Volumes in your data center. Question categories include requirements and maximums, installation and configuration, storage, management, using App Volumes with Remote Desktop Session Hosts (RDSH), and troubleshooting.

vRealize Network Insight provides IT operations teams peerless visibility, contextual analytics and micro-segmentation planning and modeling capabilities for their VMware NSX  based software-defined data centers.

You can now deploy NSX over any physical compute and networking system with confidence. vRealize Network Insight connects the virtual and physical layers through cross domain, cross layer, cross vendor visibility and analytics. vRealize Network Insight  makes NSX operations extremely simple and robust. Download the solutions brief here.

See how VMware vRealize Network Insight delivers intelligent operations for software-defined networking and security to help IT maximize their NSX investments.