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Learning VMware NSX - Second Edition

By : Ranjit Singh Thakurratan
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Learning VMware NSX - Second Edition

By: Ranjit Singh Thakurratan

Overview of this book

VMware NSX is a platform for the software-defined data center. It allows complex networking topologies to be deployed programmatically in seconds. SDNs allow ease of deployment, management, and automation in deploying and maintaining new networks while reducing and in some cases completely eliminating the need to deploy traditional networks. The book allows you a thorough understanding of implementing Software defined networks using VMware’s NSX. You will come across the best practices for installing and configuring NSX to setup your environment. Then you will get a brief overview of the NSX Core Components NSX’s basic architecture. Once you are familiar with everything, you will get to know how to deploy various NSX features. Furthermore, you will understand how to manage and monitor NSX and its associated services and features. In addition to this, you will also explore the best practices for NSX deployments. By the end of the book, you will be able to deploy Vmware NSX in your own environment with ease. This book can come handy if you are preparing for VMware NSX certification.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface
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Conclusion

Downloading and deploying NSX Manager


NSX Manager is an appliance and it can be downloaded online from VMware's website. The download is available in the OVA format and can be then deployed in your environment. Before discussing the deployment of NSX, let's go over some considerations for deploying NSX.

VMware recommends that NSX Manager be deployed on a separate management cluster that will be separate from the compute cluster where your software-defined networks will be deployed. This decouples the management plane from the compute plane and allows for higher availability of your management systems. The management cluster will also run the vCenter server and NSX controllers are deployed on the compute cluster. The controller cluster virtual machines should be deployed on the management network and should be able to reach the vCenter server and hypervisors. It is also important to recall that vCenter and NSX have a 1:1 relationship with one NSX Manager only connected to one vCenter.

Note

NSX...