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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

Creating a Universal Transport Zone and adding a vSphere cluster to the Universal Transport Zone


Only a single Universal Transport Zone can exist in a Cross-vCenter topology. As we reviewed in Chapter 2, Configuring VMware NSX Logical Switch Networks, a transport zone is used to define the scope of a logical switch. In the case of a Cross-vCenter NSX environment, the Universal Transport Zone is used to define the scope of universal logical switches and universal logical routers.

As discussed in the explanation in Chapter 2, Configuring VMware NSX Logical Switch Networks, a transport zone defines the scope of where Logical Switches and Distributed Logical Routers can span. In the case of Universal Transport Zone, we define this scope across vCenter boundaries and it usually spans data centers. A vSphere cluster can be connected to a local transport zone as well as a Universal Transport Zone; they are not mutually exclusive.

Note

At the time of writing, only a single Universal Transport Zone...