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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

Upgrading NSX controller node


If you have network virtualization features, such as VXLAN and distributed routing implemented, you will need to upgrade the NSX Controller Nodes after the NSX Manager(s) are upgraded. It is recommended to upgrade the NSX Controller Nodes during the same maintenance window as the NSX Manager(s) upgrade.

Note

If you only have a vShield endpoint or a distributed firewall-only deployment, you may skip this recipe and jump straight to the Upgrading VMware NSX Host Clusters recipe.

At this stage, you should have completed your NSX Manager upgrade, including all the Secondary NSX Managers, if you are running a Cross-vCenter setup. In addition, the following prerequisites need to be satisfied:

  • VMware requires that each NSX controller cluster has three controller nodes. Make sure you have three NSX Controller Nodes; if you have fewer than three nodes, add the remaining additional nodes before starting the upgrade.
  • Make sure that all the NSX Controller Nodes are in the cluster...