Today, 02:39 AM
So I’ve been going through the CompTIA CloudNetX (Cloud+) certification recently, and while it’s pretty vendor-neutral, I found some of the concepts surprisingly useful when working with VMware NSX, especially in a multi-cloud environment. If you're like me, trying to secure traffic flowing between AWS, Azure, and private clouds using NSX, then this might hit home.
What stood out in the certification was how much emphasis they put on network segmentation, micro-segmentation, encryption in transit, and traffic flow control, all of which directly map to what NSX is capable of doing. For example, I used to just think of security groups and ACLs as a basic layer, but the CloudNetX material pushed me to really think about east-west traffic, layered security, and visibility across clouds. That shift helped me tighten things down in NSX and better isolate workloads that span different cloud providers.
One real-world example: I was working on a setup where services were split between a private vSphere environment and AWS. With NSX, I needed to make sure we weren’t just relying on firewall rules but had deep traffic inspection and proper zone segmentation. Thanks to what I learned from CloudNetX, I actually restructured how we applied security policies, now each segment has dedicated rules based on workload sensitivity, and our cross-cloud traffic is monitored way more intelligently.
Also, if you’re prepping for this cert, I used Pass4Future for CNX-001 practice questions, super helpful in simulating real hybrid cloud scenarios.
Just wondering, has anyone else here used NSX to manage multi-cloud traffic and applied cloud certification knowledge to it? Would love to hear how you're securing your hybrid workloads and if there’s anything you’ve learned that NSX made easier or harder.
What stood out in the certification was how much emphasis they put on network segmentation, micro-segmentation, encryption in transit, and traffic flow control, all of which directly map to what NSX is capable of doing. For example, I used to just think of security groups and ACLs as a basic layer, but the CloudNetX material pushed me to really think about east-west traffic, layered security, and visibility across clouds. That shift helped me tighten things down in NSX and better isolate workloads that span different cloud providers.
One real-world example: I was working on a setup where services were split between a private vSphere environment and AWS. With NSX, I needed to make sure we weren’t just relying on firewall rules but had deep traffic inspection and proper zone segmentation. Thanks to what I learned from CloudNetX, I actually restructured how we applied security policies, now each segment has dedicated rules based on workload sensitivity, and our cross-cloud traffic is monitored way more intelligently.
Also, if you’re prepping for this cert, I used Pass4Future for CNX-001 practice questions, super helpful in simulating real hybrid cloud scenarios.
Just wondering, has anyone else here used NSX to manage multi-cloud traffic and applied cloud certification knowledge to it? Would love to hear how you're securing your hybrid workloads and if there’s anything you’ve learned that NSX made easier or harder.
