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NSX-T Virtual Lab 1: Explore NSX-T Environment
In this lab, you'll spend some time familiarizing yourself with the lab environment you will be working in.
NSX-T Virtual Lab 12: Tags & Groups
VMware NSX-T provides a robust tagging mechanism that allows metadata to be applied to nearly every logical object created within the system. Tags can also be applied to workloads that are part of the NSX environment, such as virtual machines.
NSX-T Virtual Lab 13: Distributed Firewall
The NSX-T Distributed Firewall is a powerful feature that provides robust security at the vNIC level, allowing for segmentation of workloads in a myriad of ways. In this lab, you will utilize the groups you created using tags (in Lab 12) to deploy firewall rules.
NSX-T Virtual Lab 2: Add vSphere Distributed Switch
In this lab, you will be adding a new distributed switch to your vSphere environment.
NSX-T Virtual Lab 7: Configure Logical Switching
Logical switching is configured as "segments" within NSX-T. Previously known as "logical switches," segments represent Layer 2 broadcast domains within the NSX-T environment. These segments can be deployed on both the N-VDS and native vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS) and will be backed by either a VLAN or Overlay transport zone.
NSX-T Virtual Lab 4: Inventory Preparation
In this lab, we will be creating objects that will help us lay the foundation for our NSX-T environment.
NSX-T Virtual Lab 3: Add Compute Manager
In the context of NSX-T, a compute manager is a system that manages hypervisor hosts and their accompanying virtualized workloads. A prime example of this is VMware vCenter Server.
NSX-T Virtual Lab 8: Configure Logical Routing
In this lab, you will configure the distributed logical routing components of NSX-T. Though not required, we will be creating a two-tier routing topology, with one Tier-0 and Tier-1 router respectively.
NSX-T Virtual Lab 5: Prepare ESX Hosts for NSX-T
Here you will be preparing the VMware hosts within the "Compute" cluster to be NSX Transport Nodes. During this process, NSX Manager will install various components on the host and will provision the TEP interface.
NSX-T Virtual Lab 6: Deploy Edge Node
An NSX Edge Transport Node is a node within NSX-T that has several functions, including acting as the gateway into and out of the NSX-T fabric. In this section, we will be deploying an edge in the virtual machine form factor so that the endpoints in our environment can access external resources.
NSX-T Virtual Labs 9-11: Configure VMs, Explore Routing and Test 3-Tier App
In these labs, you will be migrating the three-tier app virtual machines to your new NSX segments. Then you will verify that all the application components are reachable and that BGP is peering correctly. Lastly, you will confirm that the three-tier app is working appropriately.