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Learning VMware NSX - Second Edition

By : Ranjit Singh Thakurratan
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Learning VMware NSX - Second Edition

By: Ranjit Singh Thakurratan

Overview of this book

VMware NSX is a platform for the software-defined data center. It allows complex networking topologies to be deployed programmatically in seconds. SDNs allow ease of deployment, management, and automation in deploying and maintaining new networks while reducing and in some cases completely eliminating the need to deploy traditional networks. The book allows you a thorough understanding of implementing Software defined networks using VMware’s NSX. You will come across the best practices for installing and configuring NSX to setup your environment. Then you will get a brief overview of the NSX Core Components NSX’s basic architecture. Once you are familiar with everything, you will get to know how to deploy various NSX features. Furthermore, you will understand how to manage and monitor NSX and its associated services and features. In addition to this, you will also explore the best practices for NSX deployments. By the end of the book, you will be able to deploy Vmware NSX in your own environment with ease. This book can come handy if you are preparing for VMware NSX certification.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface
9
Conclusion

Logical Edge load balancers


Load balancers allow network traffic to be balanced across multiple servers to increase performance, and they also allow the high availability of services. This distribution of an incoming service among multiple servers is transparent to the end users, which makes deploying load balancers a critical component of any environment.

Note

A good use-case for load balancers for further reading can be found at:http://cloudmaniac.net/load-balance-vmware-psc-with-nsx/

The Edge services gateway offers logical Edge load balancers that allow you to utilize the load balancing functionality and distribute incoming traffic across multiple virtual machine instances.

An Edge services gateway instance must be deployed in order to enable the load balancer service. There are multiple steps required when configuring a load balancer service, and it begins with enabling the service, followed by configuring the application profile to define the behavior based on the traffic type. Once these...