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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

Verifying VMware NSX working state


Before starting the upgrade, it is important to verify that everything is working normally. If there is an issue on the current working state, it needs to be resolved first before proceeding with the upgrade; otherwise, the upgrade process may fail.

Getting ready

To verify current working state, please ensure you have the following:

  • Login credentials against all NSX components
  • vCenter Access to manage NSX Virtual Infrastructure
  • Console, HTTP/HTTPS, and SSH access to NSX Manager
  • Console or SSH access to NSX controllers and service virtual machines

How to do it...

To verify that the current NSX components are working normally, you should check the working state of NSX starting from the access to the NSX Manager, access to the networking and security plugin, and all of the NSX components.

Verifying NSX Manager virtual appliance working state

Follow the steps below to verify the working state of the NSX Manager:

  1. Verify that you can log in to the NSX Manager web interface...