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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

Restoring NSX Manager


In the event of an NSX Manager failure, a fresh NSX Manager can be redeployed and existing configuration can be restored from a backup file.

Getting ready

As mentioned in the previous recipe, it is also important to ensure vCenter server and NSX Manager are restored to the same restore point to avoid any inconsistencies in either appliance's database.

The NSX Manager restore procedure is meant to be performed on a freshly deployed NSX Manager that is the exact same build version as that of the previous backup's NSX Manager. For detailed steps on how to deploy an NSX Manager, see Chapter 1, Getting Started with VMware NSX for vSphere.

Note

VMware recommends restoring a backup on a freshly deployed NSX Manager. Restoring to an existing NSX Manager may work; however, it is not officially supported.

Once the NSX Manager is deployed, the next step would be configuring the Backup & Restore settings so it can retrieve the existing backup file. Make sure NSX Manager has access...