VMware NSX-T Data Center: Install, Configure, Manage [V3.2]

This five-day, fast-paced course provides comprehensive training on how to install, configure, and manage a VMware NSX-T™ Data Center environment. This course covers key NSX-T Data Center features and functionality offered in the NSX-T Data Center 3.2 release, including the overall infrastructure, logical switching, logical routing, networking and security services, firewalls and advanced threat prevention, and more.

Duration

5 days

Audience

Experienced security administrators or network administrators

Prerequisites

• Good 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 VMware Tanzu™ environments

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

• Describe the architecture and main components of NSX-T Data Center

• Explain the features and benefits of NSX-T Data Center

• Deploy the NSX Management cluster and VMware NSX® Edge™ nodes

• Prepare VMware ESXi™ and KVM hosts to participate in NSX-T Data Center 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-T Data Center

• 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

1 Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics

• Course objectives

2 VMware Virtual Cloud Network and NSX-T Data Center

• Introduce the VMware Virtual Cloud Network vision

• Discuss NSX-T Data Center solutions, use cases, and benefits

• Explain NSX-T Data Center architecture and components

• Describe the VMware NSXTM product portfolio and features

• Explain the management, control, data, and consumption planes and function

3 Preparing the NSX-T Data Center Infrastructure

• Describe NSX Management Cluster

• Deploy VMware NSXTM ManagerTM nodes on VMware ESXi and KVM hypervisors

• Navigate through the NSX Manager UI

• Explain data-plane components such as

N-VDS/VDS, transport nodes, transport zones, profiles, and more

• Perform transport node preparation and establish the data center infrastructure

• Verify transport node status and connectivity

4 NSX-T Data Center 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 Manager 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-T Data Center Logical Routing

• Describe the logical routing function and use cases

• Introduce the two-tier routing architecture, topologies, and components

• Explain the Tier-0 and Tier-1 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 Tier-0 and Tier-1 Gateways

• Examine the single-tier and multitier packet flow

• Configure static routing and dynamic routing, including BGP and OSPF

• Enable ECMP on Tier-0 Gateway

• Describe NSX Edge HA, failure detection, and failback modes

• Configure VRF Lite

6 NSX-T Data Center 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-T Data Center Firewalls

• Describe NSX segmentation

• Identify the steps to enforce Zero-Trust 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-T Data Center Advanced Threat Prevention

• Explain NSX IDS/IPS and its use cases

• Configure NSX IDS/IPS

• Deploy the NSX Application Platform

• Identify the components and architecture of NSX Malware Prevention

• Configure NSX Malware Prevention for east-west and north-south traffic

• Describe the use cases and architecture of 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-T Data Center Services

• Describe NSX-T Data Center 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 Manager UI

10 NSX-T Data Center User and Role Management

• Describe the function and benefits of VMware Identity Manager™ in NSX-T Data Center

• Integrate VMware Identity Manager with NSX-T Data Center

• Integrate LDAP with NSX-T Data Center

• Identify the various types of users, authentication policies, and permissions

• Use role-based access control to restrict user access

11 NSX-T Data Center Federation

• Introduce the NSX-T Data Center Federation key concepts, terminology, and use-cases.

• Explain the onboarding process of NSX-T Data Center Federation

• Describe the NSX-T Data Center Federation switching and routing functions.

• Describe the NSX-T Data Center Federation security concepts.