VMware Hands On Labs are now available as part of a public beta. A few important links are as follows:
- You can follow for updates on twitter (@VMwareHOL)
- Check out the community and signup here.
- You can checkout the content catalog here which is also available in poster format here.
The first lab that I decided to try was “Deploy VMware vCloud Director with Cisco Nexus 1000V and VXLAN”. Once you pick your lab you’ll see it starts spinning up your pod.
Time will vary but for this one within 45 seconds I was looking at my desktop and my lab guide.
The content I thought was great and did a good job of giving an overview of the VXLAN technology before showing you how to configure it with a Nexus 1000V/VXLAN environment. Throughout the lab there are diagrams which help describe the scenarios and teach things relevant to the lab.
This lab also contained a lot of qos/policy work at the end for managing the Nexus 1000V which I thought was a great add the content for VXLAN configuration. You will have to register for an account but after doing so I would definitely encourage you to check out the labs as they are a great way to get hands on experience with VMware based technologies without having to spin them up in your own lab.