VMware NSX-T Data Center: What’s New [V3.2]
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- Formats:
Classroom,
Live Online,
vFlex-ILT,
Onsite
- Length: 3 Days
Overview:
In this three-day, hands-on training course, you explore the new features and enhancements in VMware NSX-T™ Data Center 3.2. You will be introduced to all new security features in NSX-T Data Center 3.2, including NSX Application Platform, NSX Malware Prevention, NSX Intrusion Detection and Prevention, URL Filtering, VMware NSX® Intelligence™, and VMware NSX® Network Detection and Response™.
This course also discusses the architectural and operational changes introduced in version 3.2 and discusses the enhancements to OSPF, VMware NSX® Advanced Load Balancer™, and NSX Federation. This course is also available in an On Demand format. For more information, select this link: VMware NSX-T Data Center: What’s New [V3.2] - On Demand. Product Alignment VMware NSX-T Data Center 3.2 |
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| Objectives: | By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives: • Describe the architectural and operations enhancements in NSX-T Data Center 3.2 • Configure OSPF in NSX-T Data Center 3.2 • Describe the NSX security architecture and features of NSX-T Data Center 3.2 • Configure Distributed Firewall on VDS for security use cases • Configure URL Filtering and Identity Firewall on NSX Edge nodes • Configure NSX Intrusion Detection and Prevention for east-west traffic • Deploy NSX Application Platform • Configure NSX Malware Prevention for east-west and north-south traffic • Analyze the networking secure posture and threats with NSX Intelligence and NSX Network Detection and Response • Deploy the NSX Advanced Load Balancer components • Describe the NSX Federation enhancements in NSX-T Data Center 3.2 |
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| Intended Audience: | Network and security administrators, IT managers, VMware partners, and individuals responsible for implementing and managing the NSX-T Data Center deployments | |
| Prerequisites: | This course requires completion of the VMware NSX-T Data Center: Install, Configure, Manage course or equivalent knowledge and administration experience with NSX-T Data Center 3.0 or above. Solid understanding of the concepts presented in the Kubernetes Fundamentals course is also required. The following knowledge is beneficial: • Understanding of TCP/IP services and protocols • Knowledge and working experience of computer networking, including switching and routing technologies (L2-L3) and L2-L7 firewall • Knowledge and working experience with VMware vSphere® environments • Knowledge and working experience with Kubernetes or vSphere with Tanzu environments. The VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization (2021) certification is recommended. |
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| Outline: | 1 Course Introduction • Introduction and course logistics • Course objectives 2 NSX Architecture and Operations • Review key components of the NSX-T Data Center architecture • Explain the Management Plane to Policy Promotion tool • Compare Live Traffic Analysis with traditional network traffic analysis methods • Identify how Fabric View helps visualize the underlying network fabric of a topology • Recognize improvements in historical trending for network and system monitoring • Explain how the fabric MTU health check can be used to identify an MTU mismatch 3 OSPF Routing Protocol • Explain the core concepts of OSPF routing • Define the OSPF use cases in NSX-T Data Center • Explain the Tier-0 gateway topologies with OSPF • Configure OSPF in NSX-T Data Center 4 NSX Security Overview • Describe the NSX security architecture and main components • Identify the use cases for NSX Distributed Security • Identify the use cases for NSX Gateway Security • Describe NSX Network Detection and Response 5 Distributed Firewall on VDS: Use Case for Security • Identify the distributed firewall on VDS requirements • Configure the distributed firewall on VDS • Validate the distributed firewall on VDS configurations 6 Gateway Security • Identify use cases for URL filtering • Describe the URL filtering architecture • Configure URL filtering • Describe the uses cases, architecture, and components of Identity Firewall • Configure Identity Firewall for north-south traffic 7 Intrusion Detection and Prevention • Describe the MITRE ATT&CK framework • Explain the phases of a cyberattack • Describe features and methods used by intrusion detection and prevention systems • Identify VMware NSX® Distributed IDS/IPS™ use cases • Describe the NSX Distributed IDS/IPS terminology and architecture • Configure NSX Distributed IDS/IPS 8 NSX Application Platform • Describe NSX Application Platform and its use cases • Define the core concepts of vSphere with Tanzu • Deploy NSX Application Platform on vSphere with Tanzu • Explain the NSX Application Platform architecture and services • Scale out and scale up NSX Application Platform 9 Malware Prevention • Describe techniques used in malware prevention • Identify use cases for NSX Malware Prevention • Identify the components in the NSX Malware Prevention architecture • Describe the NSX Malware Prevention packet flows for known and unknown files • Configure NSX Malware Prevention for east-west and north-south traffic 10 NSX Intelligence and NSX Network Detection and Response • Describe the NSX Intelligence architecture and core components • Install NSX Intelligence • Describe NSX Intelligence visualization, recommendation, and Suspicious Traffic Detection enhancements • Describe NSX Network Detection and Response architecture and its use cases • Activate NSX Network Detection and Response • Describe the visualization capabilities of NSX Network Detection and Response 11 NSX Advanced Load Balancer • Describe NSX Advanced Load Balancer and its use cases • Explain the NSX Advanced Load Balancer architecture • Deploy NSX Advanced Load Balancer • Explain the NSX Advanced Load Balancer components and how they manage traffic • Configure virtual IP addresses, virtual services, and server pools • Perform basic troubleshooting of virtual services, server pools, and service engines 12 NSX Federation Enhancements • Recognize NSX Federation use cases • Describe the main components of the NSX Federation architecture • Explain LDAP support for the Global Manager • Explain the purpose of firewall drafts on the NSX Global Manager • Explain NSX Federation support for tag-based replication • Describe ways to monitor NSX Federation components |
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