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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

Creating a service user account for vCenter server registration


A user account that will be used for registering NSX manager to the vCenter server to query the vSphere infrastructure must have an administrator role in the vCenter. If the NSX manager is going to be integrated into SSO services provided by vSphere, the user must be an SSO administrator.

In this recipe, we will create a service account user called nsx-svc in the SSO domain (vsphere.local) that will be used to register NSX manager to the vCenter server and SSO services.

Note

Service accounts are user accounts that are used by system services and not real users.

Getting ready

You should have a vCenter server with PSC/SSO services and an NSX manager deployed. You should also have an SSO administrator login credential to the vCenter server, for example, [email protected].

How to do it...

Creating a service user account involves three steps: creating the user itself, adding the user as an SSO administrator, and, lastly, registering...