vCloud Network & Security for vSphere Professionals v5.x

This intensive training course focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vCloud® Networking and Security™ for the VMware® vSphere® professional. vCloud Networking and Security is a suite of security virtual appliances built for VMware® vCenter Server™ and VMware ESXi™ integration. vCloud Networking and Security is a critical security component for protecting virtualized data centers from attacks and helping you to achieve your compliance-mandated goals. The course is based on ESXi 5.1 and vCenter Server 5.1.

Objectives

• Identify common use cases for vCloud Networking and Security components
• Install VMware vCloud® Networking and Security Manager™ and configure it to work with vCenter Server
• Create and manage VXLAN virtual wires
Identify environments that benefit from deploying VMware vCloud® Networking and Security Edge™ and install and configure it
• Identify environments that benefit from VMware vCloud® Networking and Security App™ and install and configure it in a cluster
• Describe the enterprise requirements for compliance analysis and how VMware vCloud® Networking and Security Data Security™ can provide a solution

Outline

Course Introduction
• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

– VMware Networking and Security
• Networking and Security virtualization vision
• VMware vCloud Networking and Security Components

– VMware vCloud Networking and Security Manager
• Installation prerequisites
• Installing vCloud Networking and Security Manager

– VXLAN Networks
• Layer-2 connectivity and VLAN constraints
• VXLAN protocol
• IP encapsulation and multicast requirements
• Creating and connecting a VXLAN virtual wire
• Testing VXLAN Virtual Wire Connectivity

• Securing the Data Center
• Securing the virtual data center
• Securing Virtual Networks

– VMware vCloud Networking and Security Edge
• Installing and configuring vCloud Networking and Security Edge
• Internal and uplink interfaces
• Adding, changing, and deleting firewall and NAT rules
• Configuring site-to-site IPsec VPNs
• Configuring SSL VPNs for remote access
• Configuring load-balancer services
• Configuring high-availability services

– VMware vCloud Networking and Security App
• Installing and configuring vCloud Networking and Security App
• Hypervisor-based firewall on each host
• Firewall rules for virtual machine protection
• Flow monitoring as a traffic analysis tool

– Endpoint Security
• Challenges with endpoint security
• VMware® vShield Endpoint™ components
• Antivirus use cases and solutions

– VMware vCloud Networking and Security Data Security
• Data security policies and compliance
• Data security scans

Audience

System administrators and system integrators responsible for deploying vCloud Networking and Security

Duration

3 Days
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