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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 Edge


The NSX Edge services gateways can be upgraded any time after the NSX Manager upgrade is completed. However, DLR cannot be upgraded until the NSX controllers and host clusters have been upgraded.

Note

Starting in NSX 6.2.5, resource reservation is carried out at the time of the NSX Edge upgrade. When vSphere HA is enabled on a cluster having insufficient resources, the upgrade operation may fail owing to vSphere HA constraints being violated.

Getting ready

You should be logged into the vSphere Web Client as an enterprise administrator or NSX administrator.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to upgrade NSX Edge:

  1. From the vSphere Web Client, navigate to Home | Networking & Security | Installation | NSX Edges. Select the desired NSX Edge and click Actions or right click and select Upgrade Version:

When prompted, click Yes to proceed with the upgrade.

  1. Upon successful upgrade, verify that the NSX Edge instance has its status as Deployed and the Version column has the new...