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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

Using the vRealize Orchestrator plugin for NSX


In this recipe, we will install the vRO plugin for the NSX plugin and run an NSX workflow from vRO.

Getting ready

You should have a vRealize Orchestrator installed with the host settings and its authentication provider configured.

How to do it...

This recipe is divided into several parts: checking the VMware Product Interoperability Matrix, downloading and installing the vRO plugin for NSX, and running an NSX-vRO workflow.

Checking the VMware Product Interoperability Matrices

The first step is to check which version of vRO Plugin is compatible with the installed NSX:

  1. Go to your web browser and navigate to the VMware Product Interoperability Matriceshttp://www.vmware.com/go/interop
  2. Select the Interoperability tab
  3. Select NSX-vRO Plugin as the first Select a Solution
  4. Select All Solutions as your second Add Platforms/Solution.
  5. Verify that your NSX version and the NSX-vRO Plugin are listed on the compatibility matrix page.

Downloading the vRO plugin for NSX...