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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

Chapter 2. Configuring VMware NSX Logical Switch Networks

In this chapter, you will learn how to configure VMware NSX Logical Switch Networks. We will be looking at the following recipes:

  • Configuring VXLAN networking
  • Configuring a VXLAN segment ID
  • Creating a NSX Transport Zone
  • Creating a NSX Logical Switch
  • Connecting a Virtual Machine to an NSX Logical Switch
  • Testing an NSX Logical Switch
  • Enabling the Controller Disconnected Operation Mode on a Transport Zone

By now, you should have a vSphere cluster that has been prepared for NSX, added the vSphere cluster onto a Virtual Distributed Switch for VXLAN, and have the physical network ready for VXLAN.