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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

Preparing for VMware NSX upgrade


Before upgrading VMware NSX components, it is important to plan the upgrade first.

Getting ready

You should have an idea of the solution components version of the current and the target states that you are trying to achieve. This includes the surrounding solution components, such as vSphere, the cloud management platform, and any third-party integrations.

How to do it...

For the purposes of this recipe, we are going to cover the following tasks:

  1. Checking VMware Product Interoperability Matrices
  2. Checking VMware NSX upgrade path
  3. Checking third-party integration
  4. Reviewing release notes and upgrade documents
  5. Reviewing deprecated and discontinued features
  6. Downloading VMware NSX upgrade bundles

Checking the VMware Product Interoperability Matrices

The first task for preparing an upgrade is to check the VMware Interoperability Matrix, as follows:

  1. Go to your web browser and navigate to the VMware Product Interoperability Matrices at http://www.vmware.com/go/interop:
  1. Select the...