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VMware NSX Network Essentials

By : sreejith c
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VMware NSX Network Essentials

By: sreejith c

Overview of this book

VMware NSX is at the forefront of the software-defined networking revolution. It makes it even easier for organizations to unlock the full benefits of a software-defined data center – scalability, flexibility – while adding in vital security and automation features to keep any sysadmin happy. Software alone won’t power your business – with NSX you can use it more effectively than ever before, optimizing your resources and reducing costs. Getting started should be easy – this guide makes sure it is. It takes you through the core components of NSX, demonstrating how to set it up, customize it within your current network architecture. You’ll learn the principles of effective design, as well as some things you may need to take into consideration when you’re creating your virtual networks. We’ll also show you how to construct and maintain virtual networks, and how to deal with any tricky situations and failures. By the end, you’ll be confident you can deliver, scale and secure an exemplary virtualized network with NSX.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
VMware NSX Network Essentials
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Summary


We started this chapter with an introduction to NSX Edge, and later, we covered routing protocols and NSX Edge services, use cases, and a few design considerations. This was certainly a lengthy topic, and the whole purpose of explaining the topics with a few labs and topologies was to make it as informative as possible. I strongly believe that in the near future, we will see lot of new features getting added to NSX Edge services. For example, NSX Edge being a Perimeter Device, we would be more than happy to see WAN acceleration features or Policy Based Routing.

With the skills that we have gained so far, we are good to start with our next chapter, on NSX security features and design decisions. We will have a close look at NSX security policies, groups, and a few use cases.