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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

Restoring NSX Edge


In this recipe, we will restore an NSX Edge using NSX Edge's redeploy feature. The NSX Edge services gateway and logical router configurations are backed up as part of NSX Manager's data backup. If the NSX Edge VM is not accessible, corrupted, or is not getting the correct configuration but is still listed in NSX Manager, the NSX Edge appliance can be redeployed through the vSphere Web Client.

Getting ready

You should be logged into the vSphere Web Client as an NSX Enterprise Administrator or NSX Administrator.

Note

NSX Edge redeploy is a disruptive operation.

How to do it...

Assuming the NSX Edge is still listed in vSphere Web Client, the steps for redeploying or restoring NSX Edge are as follows:

  1. From the vSphere Web Client, navigate to Home | Networking & Security | NSX Edges. Make sure the desired NSX Edge is listed in the center pane,if it is not, the redeploy function cannot continue. Select the desired NSX Edge and click Actions | Redeploy or click the Redeploy icon...