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VMware NSX: Troubleshooting and Operations [V6.4]

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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