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VMware NSX Cookbook

By : Bayu Wibowo, Tony Sangha
Book Image

VMware NSX Cookbook

By: Bayu Wibowo, Tony Sangha

Overview of this book

This book begins with a brief introduction to VMware's NSX for vSphere Network Virtualization solutions and how to deploy and configure NSX components and features such as Logical Switching, Logical Routing, layer 2 bridging and the Edge Services Gateway. Moving on to security, the book shows you how to enable micro-segmentation through NSX Distributed Firewall and Identity Firewall and how to do service insertion via network and guest introspection. After covering all the feature configurations for single-site deployment, the focus then shifts to multi-site setups using Cross-vCenter NSX. Next, the book covers management, backing up and restoring, upgrading, and monitoring using built-in NSX features such as Flow Monitoring, Traceflow, Application Rule Manager, and Endpoint Monitoring. Towards the end, you will explore how to leverage VMware NSX REST API using various tools from Python to VMware vRealize Orchestrator.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 8. Backing up and Restoring VMware NSX Components

In this chapter, you will learn how to backup and restore VMware NSX components. We will be looking at the following recipes:

  • Backing up NSX Manager
  • Restoring NSX Manager
  • Restoring NSX Controller Nodes
  • Restoring a Logical Switch Backing Port Group
  • Restoring NSX Edge
  • Exporting NSX DFW Rules configuration from the Firewall Menu
  • Restoring NSX DFW Rules configuration from the Firewall Menu
  • Exporting NSX Security Policy from the Service Composer Menu
  • Restoring NSX Security Policy from the Service Composer Menu

To complete all of these recipes, you will need a user that has configure rights. If in doubt, please refer to Chapter 9, Managing User Accounts in VMware NSX.