VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage [V4.0]
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.
COURSE OBJECTIVE
- Describe the architecture and main components of NSX
- Explain the features and benefits of NSX
- Deploy the NSX Management cluster and VMware NSX Edge nodes
- Prepare VMware ESXi hosts to participate in NSX networking
- Create and configure segments for layer 2 forwarding
- Create and configure Tier-0 and Tier-1 gateways for logical routing
- Use distributed and gateway firewall policies to filter east-west and north-south traffic in NSX
- Configure Advanced Threat Prevention features
- Configure network services on NSX Edge nodes
- Use VMware Identity Manager and LDAP to manage users and access
- Explain the use cases, importance, and architecture of Federation
TARGET AUDIENCE
- Network Administrator
- Security Architect
- Cloud Administrator
- IT Professional
- IT Project Manager
PREREQUISITES
Required:
- Good understanding of TCP/IP services and protocols
- Knowledge and working experience of computer networking, including switching and routing technologies (L2 through L3) and L2 through L7 firewall
- Knowledge and working experience with VMware vSphere® environments
- Knowledge and working experience with Kubernetes or VMware vSphere® with VMware Tanzu® environments
About the course
COURSE OUTLINE
1. Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
2. VMware Virtual Cloud Network and VMware NSX
- Introduce the VMware Virtual Cloud Network vision
- Describe the NSX product portfolio
- Discuss NSX features use cases and benefits
- Explain NSX architecture and components
- Explain the management control data and consumption planes and their functions
3. Preparing the NSX Infrastructure
- Deploy VMware NSX ManagerTM nodes on ESXi hypervisors
- Navigate through the NSX UI
- Explain data plane components such as NVDSVDS transport nodes transport zones profiles and more
- Perform transport node preparation and configure the data plane infrastructure
- Verify transport node status and connectivity
- Explain DPUbased acceleration in NSX
- Install NSX using DPUs
4. NSX Logical Switching
- Introduce key components and terminology in logical switching
- Describe the function and types of L2 segments
- Explain tunneling and the Geneve encapsulation
- Configure logical segments and attach hosts using NSX UI
- Describe the function and types of segment profiles
- Create segment profiles and apply them to segments and ports
- Explain the function of MAC ARP and TEP tables used in packet forwarding
- Demonstrate L2 unicast packet flow
- Explain ARP suppression and BUM traffic handling
5. NSX Logical Routing
- Describe the logical routing function and use cases
- Introduce the twotier routing architecture topologies and components
- Explain the Tier0 and Tier1 gateway functions
- Describe the logical router components Service Router and Distributed Router
- Discuss the architecture and function of NSX Edge nodes
- Discuss deployment options of NSX Edge nodes
- Configure NSX Edge nodes and create NSX Edge clusters
- Configure Tier0 and Tier1 gateways
- Examine singletier and multitier packet flows
- Configure static routing and dynamic routing including BGP and OSPF
- Enable ECMP on a Tier0 gateway
- Describe NSX Edge HA failure detection and failback modes
- Configure VRF Lite
6. NSX Bridging
- Describe the function of logical bridging
- Discuss the logical bridging use cases
- Compare routing and bridging solutions
- Explain the components of logical bridging
- Create bridge clusters and bridge profiles
7. NSX Firewalls
- Describe NSX segmentation
- Identify the steps to enforce ZeroTrust with NSX segmentation
- Describe the Distributed Firewall architecture components and function
- Configure Distributed Firewall sections and rules
- Configure the Distributed Firewall on VDS
- Describe the Gateway Firewall architecture components and function
- Configure Gateway Firewall sections and rules
8. NSX Advanced Threat Prevention
- Explain NSX IDSIPS and its use cases
- Configure NSX IDSIPS
- Deploy NSX Application Platform
- Identify the components and architecture of NSX Malware Prevention
- Configure NSX Malware Prevention for eastwest and northsouth traffic
- Describe the use cases and architecture of VMware NSX Intelligence
- Identify the components and architecture of VMware NSX Network Detection and Response
- Use NSX Network Detection and Response to analyze network traffic events
9. NSX Services
- Explain and configure Network Address Translation NAT
- Explain and configure DNS and DHCP services
- Describe VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer architecture components topologies and use cases
- Configure NSX Advanced Load Balancer
- Discuss the IPSec VPN and L2 VPN function and use cases
- Configure IPSec VPN and L2 VPN using the NSX UI
10. NSX User and Role Management
- Describe the function and benefits of VMware Identity Manager in NSX
- Integrate VMware Identity Manager with NSX
- Integrate LDAP with NSX
- Identify the various types of users authentication policies and permissions
- Use rolebased access control to restrict user access
- Explain objectbased access control in NSX
11. NSX Federation
- Introduce the NSX Federation key concepts terminology and use cases
- Explain the onboarding process of NSX Federation
- Describe the NSX Federation switching and routing functions
- Describe the NSX Federation security conceptONE Intelligence
