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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

Creating a Universal Logical Router


In this recipe, we will configure the universal distributed logical router. The operation is not dissimilar to what was explained in Chapter 3, Configuring VMware NSX Logical Routing, for a local logical network segment.

The universal distributed logical router is deployed in the Primary NSX Manager vCenter domain and can be deployed in High Availability (HA) mode; to achieve a HA design, you require an interface for the UDLR control VM to use to exchange heartbeats across. The HA interface can use a VLAN-backed portgroup, a local logical switch, or a universal logical switch and it is recommended to use a universal logical switch. The reason for creating a universal logical switch, for the HA interface is also helpful during DR events in the event the UDLR Control VM needs to be restored in another vCenter domain. The following diagram shows the HA logical switch topology when connecting to the UDLR control VM:

In this recipe, we will continue with the...