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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

Upgrading VMware NSX Manager


The first step to upgrade NSX is upgrading the NSX Manager. Just to emphasize again, ensure you have the NSX Manager backup data prior to starting the upgrade process so you can rollback in case your upgrade fails.

In a Cross-vCenter NSX environment, the Primary NSX Manager must be upgraded first, followed by upgrading the Secondary NSX Manager(s). Both Primary and Secondary NSX Manager(s) must be upgraded in the same maintenance window.

Getting ready

You should have the login credentials for the NSX Manager web interface.

How to do it...

The NSX Manager upgrade is performed through the NSX Manager web interface. Follow these steps to upgrade the NSX Manager:

  1. Log into NSX Manager web interface via your web browser.
  2. On the NSX Manager Virtual Appliance Management homepage, click the Upgrade button.
  1. The Upgrade NSX Management Service menu will display the Current Software Version with the build number. Click Upload Bundle to upload the tar.gz upgrade bundle file:
  1. On the...