NSX-T for Complete Beginners (VCTA-NV 2022)

Explore how NSX-T functions as a software-defined networking solution that virtualizes routing, switching, and security. Supports vSphere, bare metal, Linux KVM, containers, and native clouds like AWS and Azure.

NSX-T automates provisioning of virtual routers and switches in minutes, reduces human errors, and enables overlay networks, site stretching, micro segmentation, and VM firewall rules.

Explore NSX use cases that fuse network virtualization with security, including distributed firewall, micro-segmentation, and disaster recovery, to automate and protect data center networks.

Explore NSX-T architecture: the management plane with the NSX Manager, the control plane distributing config to hosts, and the data plane handling workload traffic via ESXi hosts and edge appliances.

Discover how NSX cloud unifies on-prem and public clouds (AWS, Azure, IWC) with the NSX Manager and Cloud Services Manager to push consistent firewall rules and licensing across environments.

Explore how NSX overlay networking creates a shared virtual network across sites using segments and virtual switches, with Geneve and VXLAN encapsulation via tunnel endpoints.

Explore how NSX-T virtualizes routing and switching inside the hypervisor with t0/t1 gateways and distributed routers, and how edge nodes and service routers connect to external networks.

Explore how NSX enables disaster recovery by leveraging stretched overlay networks between Paris and London data centers, preserving IP addresses and enabling rapid failover and federation.

Discover how NSX federation links Paris, London, and Madrid to manage networks with logical switches and virtual routers, via global and local manager clusters for disaster recovery.

Preview NSX deployment workflows for network virtualization, including prerequisites, transport node prep, edge deployment, routing (BGP/OSPF), and overlay versus VLAN-backed segments, plus security deployment considerations.

Learn how containers operate on a server with a container engine like Docker and share a Linux kernel. See how NSX-T enables firewalling and network virtualization for container security.

Learn how NSX enables firewalling and overlay network extension to bare metal servers by installing an OS agent and joining the same subnet as VMs.

Explore how NSX load balancing scales web apps, using the native load balancer on edge nodes and advanced NSX ALB for active-active traffic, global load balancing, analytics, and multicloud support.

Learn the difference between north-south traffic and east-west traffic within a data center. See how edge firewalls protect the data center perimeter and how nsx segmentation secures east-west flows inside.

Explore the three-tier app architecture with web, application, and database tiers, trace an order through the stack, and see how NSX enables micro segmentation by restricting inter-tier communication.

Learn micro segmentation in a three-tier app to restrict web, app, and database traffic, applying firewall rules on virtual network interface cards via NSX-T manager to prevent lateral movement.

Adopt the nsx-t distributed firewall to shift firewalling from centralized appliances to workload-based, stateful enforcement on each vm or host, scalable across vcenters and public clouds, with partner service integration.

Experience a live NSX-T microsegmentation demo that uses VM tags to form a Web VMs group and blocks Webo1 from Webo2 with a distributed firewall policy, testing effectiveness.

Plan security policies with network insight to lock down only what's needed by revealing VM to VM communication in a three tier application.

Use Network Insight to plan NSX-T segmentation and security rules by querying VM-to-VM flows, analyzing traffic, and applying the recommended firewall rules for applications.

Identify vulnerabilities, examine exploits, and analyze attacks using a Windows Server and FTP example to illustrate how weaknesses are exploited.

Learn how intrusion detection and intrusion prevention work in NSX, how traffic passes the distributed firewall, and how signatures detect and prevent attacks at the vm's network adapter.

Explore NSX ATP overview to learn how threat prevention package uses distributed firewall, intrusion prevention and detection, malware prevention, network traffic analysis, and NDR on Kubernetes.

Identify who should manage NSX in production, outlining options for network, virtualization, or security teams. Explain how custom role-based access control and Active Directory integration tailor team permissions.

Learn how NSX can coexist with HCI, enabling the overlay network with NSX while HCI manages the underlay through APIC, with virtualization, security, and automation.

Explore how NSX-T automates everything, from on-demand vm provisioning to configuring routing, switching, nat, and firewall rules, using V-Ray, rest API calls, Ansible, and TerraForm.

Learn VMware HCX, a cross-site VM migration tool that uses NSX to stretch networks, preserve IPs, and migrate VMs between vCenters, sites, or clouds with warm, cold, and in-flight vMotion.