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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

Deploying and configuring the NSX ESG in HA mode


In this recipe, we will deploy the ESG onto the VMware NSX infrastructure using the vSphere web client. We will use the network topology depicted in the introduction to serve as a reference point. In this recipe, we will also configure the ESG for HA.

Getting ready

To deploy the NSX Edge Services Gateway, the following prerequisites must be met:

  • The user must have an enterprise administrator or NSX administrator role
  • The NSX controllers must be deployed and available
  • A router ID must be reserved; typically the transit logical switch IP address is sufficient
  • The VXLAN-backed Portgroup (logical switch) is available to be used for the HA interface
  • The Transit logical switch (LS-TRANSIT) has been created
  • The NSX-backed PortGroup has been configured on the vSphere distributed switch

How to do it...

The following steps detail how to deploy an ESG in HA mode:

  1. Navigate to Networking & Security | NSX Edges.
  2. Click the Add button to launch the configuration...