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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

Backing up NSX Manager


For the purposes of this recipe, we will configure and verify NSX Manager's backup configuration. Restoring NSX Manager from backup will be covered in the next recipe.

Getting ready

Before you can configure the NSX Manager backup, make sure you have the following:

  • Access to NSX Manager web interface UI
  • A configured FTP/SFTP server for the backup target
  • Username and password credentials to access the FTP/SFTP server

How to do it...

Let's start to configure NSX Manager backup to an FTP server:

  1. Log in to NSX Manager web interface UI via your web browser.
  2. On the NSX Manager Virtual Management homepage, select the Backup & Restore menu.
  3. On the center pane of the Backup & Restore menu, specify the FTP server details by clicking the Change... button next to the FTP Server Settings:
  1. On the new Backup Location dialog box, input or select all the required information, such as:
    • The IP/Host name of the FTP/SFTP server that will be used for backup
    • Either FTP or SFTP for the Transfer...