Information Technology

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

Instructor-Led 12 Agenda

Description

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™. This course also discusses the architectural and operational changes introduced in version 3.2 and discusses the enhancements to OSPF, VMware NSX® Advanced Load Balancer™, and NSX Federation.

Course Overview

Course Objective

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

Who Should Attend

Network and security administrators, IT managers, VMware partners, and individuals responsible for implementing and managing the NSX-T Data Center deployments

Course Introduction Lesson Id 1

Course Introduction

NSX Architecture and Operations Lesson Id 2

NSX Architecture and Operations

OSPF Routing Protocol Lesson Id 3

OSPF Routing Protocol

NSX Security Overview Lesson Id 4

NSX Security Overview

Distributed Firewall on VDS: Use Case for Security Lesson Id 5

Distributed Firewall on VDS: Use Case for Security

Gateway Security Lesson Id 6

Gateway Security

Intrusion Detection and Prevention Lesson Id 7

Intrusion Detection and Prevention

NSX Application Platform Lesson Id 8

NSX Application Platform

Malware Prevention Lesson Id 9

Malware Prevention

NSX Intelligence and NSX Network Detection and Response Lesson Id 10

NSX Intelligence and NSX Network Detection and Response

NSX Advanced Load Balancer Lesson Id 11

NSX Advanced Load Balancer

NSX Federation Enhancements Lesson Id 12

NSX Federation Enhancements

Lesson Id	Title	Description
1	Course Introduction	Introduction and course logistics<br />Course objectives
2	NSX Architecture and Operations	Review key components of the NSX-T Data Center architecture<br />Explain the Management Plane to Policy Promotion tool<br />Compare Live Traffic Analysis with traditional network traffic analysis methods<br />Identify how Fabric View helps visualize the underlying network fabric of a topology<br />Recognize improvements in historical trending for network and system monitoring<br />Explain how the fabric MTU health check can be used to identify an MTU mismatch
3	OSPF Routing Protocol	Explain the core concepts of OSPF routing<br />Define the OSPF use cases in NSX-T Data Center<br />Explain the Tier-0 gateway topologies with OSPF<br />Configure OSPF in NSX-T Data Center
4	NSX Security Overview	Describe the NSX security architecture and main components<br />Identify the use cases for NSX Distributed Security<br />Identify the use cases for NSX Gateway Security<br />Describe NSX Network Detection and Response
5	Distributed Firewall on VDS: Use Case for Security	Identify the distributed firewall on VDS requirements<br />Configure the distributed firewall on VDS<br />Validate the distributed firewall on VDS configurations
6	Gateway Security	Identify use cases for URL filtering<br />Describe the URL filtering architecture<br />Configure URL filtering<br />Describe the uses cases, architecture, and components of Identity Firewall<br />Configure Identity Firewall for north-south traffic
7	Intrusion Detection and Prevention	Describe the MITRE ATT&CK framework<br />Explain the phases of a cyberattack<br />Describe features and methods used by intrusion detection and prevention systems<br />Identify VMware NSX® Distributed IDS/IPS™ use cases<br />Describe the NSX Distributed IDS/IPS terminology and architecture<br />Configure NSX Distributed IDS/IPS
8	NSX Application Platform	Describe NSX Application Platform and its use cases<br />Define the core concepts of vSphere with Tanzu<br />Deploy NSX Application Platform on vSphere with Tanzu<br />Explain the NSX Application Platform architecture and services<br />Scale out and scale up NSX Application Platform
9	Malware Prevention	Describe techniques used in malware prevention<br />Identify use cases for NSX Malware Prevention<br />Identify the components in the NSX Malware Prevention architecture<br />Describe the NSX Malware Prevention packet flows for known and unknown files<br />Configure NSX Malware Prevention for east-west and north-south traffic
10	NSX Intelligence and NSX Network Detection and Response	Describe the NSX Intelligence architecture and core components<br />Install NSX Intelligence<br />Describe NSX Intelligence visualization, recommendation, and Suspicious Traffic Detection enhancements<br />Describe NSX Network Detection and Response architecture and its use cases<br />Activate NSX Network Detection and Response<br />Describe the visualization capabilities of NSX Network Detection and Response
11	NSX Advanced Load Balancer	Describe NSX Advanced Load Balancer and its use cases<br />Explain the NSX Advanced Load Balancer architecture<br />Deploy NSX Advanced Load Balancer<br />Explain the NSX Advanced Load Balancer components and how they manage traffic<br />Configure virtual IP addresses, virtual services, and server pools<br />Perform basic troubleshooting of virtual services, server pools, and service engines
12	NSX Federation Enhancements	Recognize NSX Federation use cases<br />Describe the main components of the NSX Federation architecture<br />Explain LDAP support for the Global Manager<br />Explain the purpose of firewall drafts on the NSX Global Manager<br />Explain NSX Federation support for tag-based replication<br />Describe ways to monitor NSX Federation components