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VMware NSX Network Essentials

By : sreejith c
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VMware NSX Network Essentials

By: sreejith c

Overview of this book

VMware NSX is at the forefront of the software-defined networking revolution. It makes it even easier for organizations to unlock the full benefits of a software-defined data center – scalability, flexibility – while adding in vital security and automation features to keep any sysadmin happy. Software alone won’t power your business – with NSX you can use it more effectively than ever before, optimizing your resources and reducing costs. Getting started should be easy – this guide makes sure it is. It takes you through the core components of NSX, demonstrating how to set it up, customize it within your current network architecture. You’ll learn the principles of effective design, as well as some things you may need to take into consideration when you’re creating your virtual networks. We’ll also show you how to construct and maintain virtual networks, and how to deal with any tricky situations and failures. By the end, you’ll be confident you can deliver, scale and secure an exemplary virtualized network with NSX.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
VMware NSX Network Essentials
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Network choke points


Let me get started by saying: Never offer or implement any design unless you are well aware that it addresses all the customer's needs.

That rule is not specific to marketing or sales folk. It's general advice for anyone who deals with technology. If not, we will hear the feedback: I'm having a nightmare; all the problems started happening after that design change. Can you please get rid of that? We have designed or seen various types of vSphere networks. Every network topology will have a loophole. Nothing is perfect in this world and all we can do is ensure that we are better prepared for failures, this seems more like an advantage than a failure? I want all of you to pause for a minute and have a look at the preceding topology; make a note of all failure scenarios that might interrupt data traffic. Adding to that, if we have carefully observed the topology, we will see that universal control VMs and Edges are running on two different sites. So how will the UDLR control...