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VMware NSX Microsegmentation

Duration:

3 days

Codes:

VMNSXM,NSX

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Overview

In this intensive three-day course, you will explore the security-focused features of VMware NSX 6.3, including the distributed firewall and the Service Composer, to help drive your microsegmentation deployment to success.

Product Alignment

- NSX 6.3

Audience

Experienced system administrators, network administrators, and engineers or system integrators responsible for implementing security policy in the software-defined data center

Skills Gained

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

Describe the software-defined data center
Explain the NSX components and their function in the infrastructure
Deploy NSX for microsegmentation
Describe the distributed firewall architecture
Configure and manage NSX with VMware vSphere Web Client
Configure distributed firewall policies
Use the Service Composer to automate security policy application
Understand partner integration workflows
Troubleshoot the distributed firewall from the VMware ESXi command-line interface (CLI)
Troubleshoot the distributed firewall from the NSX central CLI

Prerequisites

You should understand security concepts.

Course Outline

Course Introduction

Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives
Describe the content of this course
Familiarize yourself with the benefits of the VMware Education Learning Zone
Identify additional resources

NSX and the Software-Defined Data Center

Describe the software-defined data center
Understand the differences in security approach between the traditional data center and the software-defined data center

Management Plane Components

Understand the management, control, and data planes
Describe VMware NSX Manager
Describe the NSX infrastructure and component communications
Install NSX components for host preparation
Troubleshoot host preparation problems
Introduce the NSX central CLI

Data Plane Components

Describe the distributed firewall components and explain how they communicate with each other
Validate proper functioning of data plane components through the ESXi CLI
Validate proper functioning of data plane components through the NSX central CLI

NSX Edge Firewall

Describe the NSX Edge firewall
Explain how the distributed firewall and NSX Edge firewall rules are managed by NSX Manager
Validate and troubleshoot the NSX Edge firewall through the NSX Edge CLI

NSX Distributed Firewall

Describe the NSX distributed firewall
Explain how NSX service chaining dynamically responds to changing security conditions
Explain how the distributed firewall, the filtering module, and traffic redirection modules work together
Use the ESXi CLI to troubleshoot the distributed firewall
Use the NSX central CLI to troubleshoot the distributed firewall

NSX Service Composer

Describe the Service Composer
Describe the Service Composer architecture
Use the Service Composer to create dynamic security policy

NSX Identity-Based Firewalling

Describe the identity-aware firewall
Configure the NSX identity-based firewall

NSX Partner Integration Solutions

Explain the architecture of Guest Introspection with third-party devices

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