1 Course Introduction
- Introduction and course logistics
- Course objectives
2 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
3 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
4 NSX Security Architecture
- 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
5 Distributed Firewall on VDS Security Only Use Case
- Identify the distributed firewall on VDS requirements
- Configure the distributed firewall on VDS
- Validate the distributed firewall on VDS configurations
6 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
7 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
8 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
9 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
10 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
11 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
12 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
