Let me qualify the title.. I say “best” with the full authority that my opinion carries. Just trying to give y’all a place to go to get your NSX learn on…
Digital Literature …
VMware Product Walkthroughs – NSX
The NSX walkthrough is the perfected balance the brevity of a presentation slide-deck with involved hands-on demonstrations. Very well put together (Check out some of the other walkthroughs).
The design guide is a PDF~30 pages is a gentle introduction to NSX topologies. Fundamental read if you’re still trying to get a handle on NSX concepts.
VMware Network Virtualization Blog
Subject matter content from the experts. Posts by Martin Casado, Bruce Davie, Brad Hedlund, Roger Fortier.
VMware Hands on Labs (HOL) Focus: Networking
Get acquainted with NSX Dynamic Routing, the Distributed Firewall & Load Balancing.
VMware NSX 6 Documentation Center
Nothing fancy about this one… ’tis the manuals. NSX Install and Upgrade Guide & NSX Administration Guide. Although in the public domain, this resource is extremely difficult (if not impossible) to find via search. But they are in the public domain. Whatever is public is not private…right?
Martin Casado’s Blog – Network Heresy
Scott Lowe’s Blog – Learning NVP/NSX
If videos are the way you learn …
NSX Architecture Webinar by Ivan Pepelnjak on ipspace.net
VMworld 2013 – Introducing the World to VMware NSX (By Sachin Thakkar)
VMware Interview – Bruce Davie on NSX
This should at the very least provide a fair start for anyone looking to mentally ramp up for the NSX NVP.
– Gabe