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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


VMware NSX is a distributed system that comprises of multiple components. It is important to understand the role of all NSX and surrounding components to complete the NSX upgrade. From a high level, the NSX upgrade is a five-step upgrade process which is managed by the NSX manager:

  1. VMware NSX Manager upgrade
  2. VMware NSX controllers upgrade
  3. VMware NSX Host Clusters upgrade
  1. VMware NSX Edges (DLRs and ESGs) upgrade
  2. Optional network and security service deployments upgrade, such as guest introspection and/or partner service VM upgrade:

It is recommended to upgrade the NSX Managers and NSX Controller Nodes in the same maintenance window. Other components, such as host clusters and NSX Edges, can be upgraded in a separate maintenance window.

If the upgrade of a component fails or is interrupted, the process can continue from the point at which it failed and not from the beginning.

As a best practice, it is recommended to take a backup of NSX components before and after the upgrade. Take a...