07-23-2025, 10:09 AM
Totally feel you on this! I went through CloudNetX a while back too, and yeah — while it’s marketed as vendor-neutral, so much of it felt directly applicable to real-world NSX use, especially in multi-cloud setups.
That whole part about network segmentation and micro-segmentation really hit different once I started mapping it to NSX. Before, I was mostly relying on security groups and some basic firewalling too — just enough to tick the compliance boxes. But once I started thinking more in terms of east-west traffic, app-layer visibility, and actual workload isolation, NSX became way more powerful in my mind.
Same boat with vSphere + AWS — securing that bridge between on-prem and cloud isn’t just about “is it reachable,” it’s “what *should* be talking to what, and how tightly can I lock it down?” I ended up revisiting our segmentation strategy too, carving out app tiers and enforcing policies based on sensitivity levels instead of just location or subnet. NSX’s DFW (distributed firewall) came in *super* clutch there.
Also, shoutout to Pass4Future — their CNX-001 practice sets are actually solid. Not just regurgitating answers but making you think through scenarios, which is gold when you're actually applying this stuff live.
Curious if you’ve played around with NSX Intelligence yet? It made our visibility so much cleaner — especially in figuring out which flows we *didn’t* account for before segmenting. Would love to hear how others are layering in their cert knowledge too.
That whole part about network segmentation and micro-segmentation really hit different once I started mapping it to NSX. Before, I was mostly relying on security groups and some basic firewalling too — just enough to tick the compliance boxes. But once I started thinking more in terms of east-west traffic, app-layer visibility, and actual workload isolation, NSX became way more powerful in my mind.
Same boat with vSphere + AWS — securing that bridge between on-prem and cloud isn’t just about “is it reachable,” it’s “what *should* be talking to what, and how tightly can I lock it down?” I ended up revisiting our segmentation strategy too, carving out app tiers and enforcing policies based on sensitivity levels instead of just location or subnet. NSX’s DFW (distributed firewall) came in *super* clutch there.
Also, shoutout to Pass4Future — their CNX-001 practice sets are actually solid. Not just regurgitating answers but making you think through scenarios, which is gold when you're actually applying this stuff live.
Curious if you’ve played around with NSX Intelligence yet? It made our visibility so much cleaner — especially in figuring out which flows we *didn’t* account for before segmenting. Would love to hear how others are layering in their cert knowledge too.
