Virtual Livefire Solutions: NSX Cloud

Livefire Solutions, Global Strategic Programs

At-a-Glance​
Virtual Livefire aims to bring the same classroom experience of an on-site Livefire class to online attendees. It consists of individual deep-dive sessions taken from current Livefire curriculum about advanced topics and integrations. Each session consists of a lecture and a custom Livefire hands-on lab designed to simulate a real-world customer use case and implementation.
TARGET AUDIENCE
  • Network and Data Center Architects
  • Network Virtualization Consultants
DELIVERY METHOD
  • Instructor-led online
  • 30% lecture, 70% hands on lab
COURSE DURATION
Two hours of instructor-led lecture followed by approximately 5 hours of hands-on lab time.
PREREQUISITES
Highly Recommended:
  • VCP-NV Certification
  • VMware NSX-T: Install, Configure, Manage [2.4] Class
  • AWS Fundamentals
AVAILABILITY
This session is being offered by invitation only to VMware SI/SO, MSC and Ignite partners, along with internal customer-facing employees. Roadmap topics may be discussed; therefore, a signed NDA is required.
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
  • Have a full-size laptop.
  • Secondary device is recommended for reading and lab materials, which are only delivered electronically.
  • Please ensure you have the US Keyboard mapping added to your devices.
Session Overview
The Virtual Livefire Solutions: NSX Cloud session is a one-day event that covers networking and security solutions for tightly integrated application workloads running inside both the private Data Center and natively within the public cloud.
Lecture
The lecture is approximately 2 hours and covers the following topics:
  • Key Challenges with Hybrid Cloud environment
  • NSX Cloud Overview and Architecture Deep Dive
  • Supported Deployment Topologies
  • Hybrid Overlay Support
  • NSX Enforced vs Native Cloud Enforced Management Modes
  • Advanced Network and Security Services
Lab Topics
The lab is approximately 5 hours and covers the following tasks:
  • Day 0 CSM Registration with NSX-T Manager
  • Adding AWS Public Cloud Accounts to CSM
  • Deploying ELB and EC2 Instances in AWS
  • Deploying NSX Cloud Gateway in AWS Transit VPC
  • Onboarding EC2 Instances in NSX Enforced Mode
  • Enforcing Micro-segmentation on EC2 Instances
  • Configuring Site-to-Site VPN Service
  • Onboarding Compute VPC in Cloud-Native Enforced Mode
  • Enforcing Cloud-Native Security Ruleset on Compute VPC EC2 Instances via NSX-T