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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

Introduction


A proper backup of all NSX components is important to get the system back in a working state in the event of failure, disaster, or before doing any major changes, such as an upgrade. There are multiple places where we can perform a backup in NSX, listed as follows:

  • NSX Manager
  • NSX Firewall Rules
  • NSX Service Composer

The VMware recommended and supported procedure for performing backup and restore is through the native NSX Manager's backup and restore facility. The native NSX Manager backup requires a remote FTP or SFTP server to store the backup file. The NSX Manager backup contains all of the NSX components configuration, from the manager itself to controllers, logical switches, routing components, edge services gateway, NSX DFW, and all other NSX configurations within the manager. The following diagram depicts the overall NSX backup and restore architecture:

Note

NSX Manager backup does not contain SSL certificates. If you are using custom or CA-signed SSL certificate, make sure...