VCP-NV, you're mine

After finishing up my CCNP yesterday, I feel my traditional networking knowledge is on the right level now to do something new. I'm jumping in SDN with the VCP-NV. Although it's a relatively new exam, I feel VMware is pushing the right buttons in progressing the software defined datacenter (SD DC).

This topic will be a bit of a progress bar in my preparation. Valueable resources will also be posted in VCP-NV resources.

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10Linefigure

Between now and Feb 2015 you can use your CCNP as a way to make the required classes optional. Thats great to go after it now. Good luck.

tomtom1

10Linefigure wrote: »

Between now and Feb 2015 you can use your CCNP as a way to make the required classes optional. Thats great to go after it now. Good luck.

I have already got my VCAP and VCP:DCV, as of such, I do not have the class requirement to start other VCP tracks. However, it is still nice to start

10Linefigure

How useful do you find the classes (virtual) and labs they offer?

tomtom1

The labs are a great way to get started. Even better would be if they were to release to product, but for the time being I'll just use the HOL. I've been reading a bit about VTEP''s and the encapsulation methods support. NSX presents itself as an overlay networking solution, which is rather cool because they are able to build a L2 network over a L3 network. So, if you have 2 racks that are interconnected by a L3 (routed) connection, broadcasts from host A located in rack 1 are not able to reach host B in rack 2, since a router is a device that is able to separate broadcast domains.

However, using the NSX based solution, an overlay based network can be deployed, allowing host A and B to share the same broadcast domain, allowing broadcasts from host A to traverse to host B, even though they are physically interconnected by L3. The VTEP's are running on the ESXi hosts and can be running either:

GRE; Generic Routing Encapsulation
STT; Stateless Transport Tunneling
VXLAN; Virtual Extenable LAN (preferred)

I'll be doing some more labs most definitely. In my VXLAN deep dive I came across some interesting resources, which I will update in the resources thread separately.