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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

Integrating Hardware VTEP Gateway with VMware NSX


In order for the hardware VTEP gateway to be discovered by the VMware NSX, an OVSDB connection must be setup between each hardware VTEP gateway and the NSX controller, which we will cover in this recipe. In this example, we will setup the OVSDB server to enable the HSC service on a hardware VTEP gateway leaf-01a and connect it to the NSX controller running the OVSDB client with the IP address 192.168.110.16 on port 6640 for OVSDB, as shown in the following screenshot:

Getting ready

To add a hardware VTEP gateway to VMware NSX, the following prerequisites need to be satisfied:

  • NSX Manager must be deployed and configured
  • NSX Controllers must be deployed
  • VXLAN must be configured in NSX using port 4789

Note

Starting with NSX 6.2.3, VMware NSX uses VXLAN UDP port 4789 which is the standard VXLAN port number assigned by IANA. Prior to NSX 6.2.3, the port was 8472. If you upgrade to NSX 6.2.3, the old port number (8472) will continue to be used after the...