New VMworld 2014 Hands-on Labs with VMware NSX Goodness

In 2013 we introduced VMware NSX Hands-on-Labs for the first time. The NSX 1303 Hands-on-lab has been by far one of the most popular labs, giving you an in-depth view of VMware NSX. Hands-on-labs are one of the best ways to get a good tour of the product. You can take all of these labs online at http://labs.hol.vmware.com/HOL/catalogs/ . It requires a registration, but is open to everyone. .

This year at VMworld we introduced several new NSX labs to give you a deeper look at NSX, and to showcase the depth of integration NSX provides with 3^rd party partners and other VMware products. All of the new 2014 Hands-on-labs have been published and are available to you. Here is a quick tour of the labs and what you can expect to see.

If you are just getting started with NSX and want to know what Network Virtualization is all about, we recommend you start here.

This lab will walk you through five modules of exercises:

• NSX Components – Host Preparation, Controller deployment
• NSX Logical Switching – building VXLAN logical switches
• NSX Logical Routing  - Distributed Routing, Dynamic Routing with OSPF
• NSX Distributed Firewall – Micro-segmentation with Continue reading