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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

Configuring the Distributed Logical Router for dynamic routing


In this recipe, we'll look at configuring the DLR for dynamic routing using the BGP. Dynamic routing is required to exchange routes with upstream routers and to advertise networks that are configured on the DLR. Without a dynamic routing protocol, each new network would need to be statically added to the upstream routers, which in large networks can become a very cumbersome task.

Getting ready

To configure the Distributed Logical Router for dynamic routing, the following prerequisites must be met:

  • The user has an NSX enterprise administrator or NSX administrator role
  • The Distributed Logical Router with transit logical switch must be deployed and configured as an uplink interface
  • The NSX controllers must be deployed and available
  • A router ID must be reserved; usually the transit logical switch IP address is sufficient

How to do it...

Here we'll go through the steps to configure dynamic routing on the Distributed Logical Router:

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