Course Introduction

• Introduction and course logistics
• Course objectives

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

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

NSX Security Overview

• 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

Distributed Firewall on VDS: Use Case for Security

• Identify the distributed firewall on VDS requirements
• Configure the distributed firewall on VDS
• Validate the distributed firewall on VDS configurations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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