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VMware NSX: Troubleshooting and Operations [V6.4]
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Course Details
VMware NSX: Troubleshooting and Operations [V6.4]
Duration: 5 Days
Prerequisite:
You should understand security concepts.
Course Description:
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.
Course Objectives:
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
Intended Audience:
Experienced system administrators, network administrators, and engineers or system integrators responsible for implementing security policy in the software-defined data center
Course Outlines:
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
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
• Explain how NSX service chaining dynamically responds to changing security conditions
• 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
• Explain how the distributed firewall, the filtering module, and traffic redirection modules work together