VCP-NV case studies
VCP-NV · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization (VCP-NV) is a professional-level certification aimed at engineers who design, deploy, and operate VMware NSX-based network virtualization environments. It is typically pursued by network administrators, virtualization engineers, and security-minded infrastructure staff who already hold a solid foundation in vSphere and data-center networking and want to demonstrate competence with software-defined networking, overlay/underlay concepts, distributed routing and switching, and micro-segmentation-style security models. The VCP-NV case studies are 5 cases and about 4,063 words.
1Splitting a Three-Node Manager Cluster Across Two Sites
Northwind runs two data centers 6 ms apart with a stretched management VLAN. The NSX 4.1 deployment has a three-node NSX Manager cluster, all three nodes currently sitting in DC-A, and 60 host transport nodes split 40 in DC-A and 20 in DC-B.
792 words, about 4 min2Planning an NSX 3.2.3 to 4.1 Upgrade With Legacy N-VDS Hosts
Contoso runs NSX 3.2.3: three managers, Edge cluster EDGE-A with four bare-metal edge nodes in DC-1, Edge cluster EDGE-B with two VM-form-factor edge nodes in DC-2, and 50 ESXi hosts. Forty hosts are prepared for NSX on VDS 7.0 U3.
795 words, about 4 min3North-South Throughput Does Not Scale on a Single Stateful Tier-1
Litware's Tier-0 runs active-active with four edge nodes in one edge cluster and eBGP to two top-of-rack switches. All tenant routing lives on a single Tier-1 that carries NAT, the gateway firewall, and DHCP relay; it connects to the Tier-0 over a /31 transit segment.
830 words, about 4 min4A PCI Firewall Policy That Allows Everything and Logs Nothing
Tailspin's PCI zone holds 45 VMs on segment 10.20.40.0/24. The auditor requires default-deny east-west with only app-tier to db-tier on TCP 5432 permitted.
815 words, about 4 min5Large Transfers Stall After a Top-of-Rack Switch Replacement
Proseware runs a 24-host NSX overlay. Each rack has its own /24 for TEP VMkernel interfaces, routed between racks with BGP, and the design specifies jumbo frames on all transport links.
831 words, about 4 min