EDU-NSXTWN32

VMware NSX-T Data Center: What’s New [V3.2] Training

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™.
Course Details

Duration

3 days

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 VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization (2021) certification is recommended. 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.

Target Audience

  • Network and Security Administrators
  • IT Managers
  • VMware Partners
  • Individuals responsible for implementing and managing the NSX-T Data Center deployments

Skills Gained

  • 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
Course Outline
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Product Alignment
    • VMware NSX-T Data Center 3.2