Book excerpt: Know the basics of network security services and other stateful services such as NAT, gateway and distributed firewalls (L2-L7), virtual private networks (VPN), load balancing (LB), and IP address management. This book covers these network and security services and how NSX-T also offers integration and interoperability with various other products that are not only created by VMware, but are also referred by VMware as third-party integrated vendors. With the integration of VMware vRealize Automation, you can automate full application platforms consisting of multiple virtual machines with network and security services orchestrated and fully automated. From the operational perspective, this book provides best practices on how to configure logging, notification, and monitoring features and teaches you how to get the required visibility of not only your NSX-T platform but also your NSX-T-enabled network infrastructure. Another key part of this book is the explanation of multi-site capabilities and how network and security services can be offered across multiple on-premises locations with a single management pane. Interface with public cloud services also is included. The current position of NSX-T operation in on-premises private clouds and the position and integration with off-premises public clouds are covered as well. This book provides a good understanding of integrations with other software to bring the best out of NSX-T and offer even more features and capabilities. What You Will Learn Understand the NSX-T security firewall and advanced security Become familiar with NAT, DNS, DHCP, and load balancing features Monitor your NSX-T environment Be aware of NSX-T authentication and authorization possibilities Understand integration with cloud automation platforms Know what multi-cloud integrations are possible and how to integrate NSX-T with the public cloud Who This Book Is For Virtualization administrators, system integrators