Course Overview
This five-day, fast-paced course provides comprehensive training to install, configure, and manage a VMware NSX® environment. This course covers key features and functionality offered in the NSX 4.0.0.1 and NSX 4.0.1 releases, including the overall infrastructure, logical switching, logical routing, networking and security services, firewalls and advanced threat prevention, and more
What you’ll learn
- the architecture and main components of NSX
- the features and benefits of NSX
- the NSX Management cluster and VMware NSX® Edge™ nodes
- VMware ESXi™ hosts to participate in NSX networking
- and configure segments for layer 2 forwarding
- and configure Tier-0 and Tier-1 gateways for logical routing
- distributed and gateway firewall policies to filter east-west and north-south traffic in NSX
- Advanced Threat Prevention features
- network services on NSX Edge nodes
- VMware Identity Manager™ and LDAP to manage users and access
- the use cases, importance, and architecture of Federation
Requirements
- understanding of TCP/IP services and protocols
- and working experience of computer networking, including switching and routing technologies (L2 through L3) and L2 through L7 firewall
- and working experience with VMware vSphere® environments
- and working experience with Kubernetes or VMware vSphere® with VMware Tanzu® environments
- Virtual Cloud Network Core Technical Skills
- Data Center Virtualization: Core Technical Skills
- Fundamentals
Target audiences
- Experienced security administrators or network administrators
Curriculum
- 1 Section
- 11 Lessons
- 5 Days
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- Topics11
- 1.11 Course Introduction and course logistics objectives
- 1.22 VMware Virtual Cloud Network and VMware NSX the VMware Virtual Cloud Network vision the NSX product portfolio NSX features, use cases, and benefits NSX architecture and components the management, control, data, and consumption planes and their functions.
- 1.33 Preparing the NSX Infrastructure VMware NSX® ManagerTM nodes on ESXi hypervisors through the NSX UI data plane components such as N-VDS/VDS, transport nodes, transport zones, profiles, and more transport node preparation and configure the data plane infrastructure transport node status and connectivity DPU-based acceleration in NSX NSX using DPUs
- 1.44 NSX Logical Switching key components and terminology in logical switching the function and types of L2 segments tunneling and the Geneve encapsulation logical segments and attach hosts using NSX UI the function and types of segment profiles segment profiles and apply them to segments and ports the function of MAC, ARP, and TEP tables used in packet forwarding L2 unicast packet flow ARP suppression and BUM traffic handling
- 1.55 NSX Logical Routing the logical routing function and use cases the two-tier routing architecture, topologies, and components the Tier-0 and Tier-1 gateway functions the logical router components: Service Router and Distributed Router the architecture and function of NSX Edge nodes deployment options of NSX Edge nodes NSX Edge nodes and create NSX Edge clusters Tier-0 and Tier-1 gateways single-tier and multitier packet flows static routing and dynamic routing, including BGP and OSPF ECMP on a Tier-0 gateway NSX Edge HA, failure detection, and failback modes VRF Lite
- 1.66 NSX Bridging the function of logical bridging the logical bridging use cases routing and bridging solutions the components of logical bridging bridge clusters and bridge profiles
- 1.77 NSX Firewalls NSX segmentation the steps to enforce Zero-Trust with NSX segmentation the Distributed Firewall architecture, components, and function Distributed Firewall sections and rules the Distributed Firewall on VDS the Gateway Firewall architecture, components, and function Gateway Firewall sections and rules
- 1.88 NSX Advanced Threat Prevention NSX IDS/IPS and its use cases NSX IDS/IPS NSX Application Platform the components and architecture of NSX Malware Prevention NSX Malware Prevention for east-west and north-south traffic the use cases and architecture of VMware NSX® Intelligence™ the components and architecture of VMware NSX® Network Detection and Response™ NSX Network Detection and Response to analyze network traffic events.
- 1.99 NSX Services and configure Network Address Translation (NAT) and configure DNS and DHCP services VMware NSX® Advanced Load Balancer™ architecture, components, topologies, and use cases. NSX Advanced Load Balancer the IPSec VPN and L2 VPN function and use cases IPSec VPN and L2 VPN using the NSX UI
- 1.1010 NSX User and Role Management the function and benefits of VMware Identity Manager™ in NSX VMware Identity Manager with NSX LDAP with NSX the various types of users, authentication policies, and permissions role-based access control to restrict user access object-based access control in NSX
- 1.1111 NSX Federation the NSX Federation key concepts, terminology, and use cases. the onboarding process of NSX Federation the NSX Federation switching and routing functions. the NSX Federation security concepts.
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