Audience/ Zielgruppe

Experienced system administrators, network administrators, and engineers or system integrators responsible for implementing security policy in the software-defined data center

Erfahrene System-Administratoren, Netzwerkadministratoren und Ingenieure oder Systemintegratoren die für die Umsetzung der Sicherheitsrichtlinien in einem Softwaredefinierten Datenträger zuständig sind.

Precognition/ Vorkenntnisse

You should understand security concepts.

Sie sollten Sicherheitskonzepte verstehen.

Learning Target/ Lernziele

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

Content/ Programminhalt

• 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
  • Identify additional resources
• 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

Language/ Kurssprache

This Course will be held in english.

Certificate/Zeugnis

You will get a participation certificate.