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VMware NSX Cookbook

VMware NSX Cookbook

By : Bayu Wibowo, Tony Sangha
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VMware NSX Cookbook

VMware NSX Cookbook

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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 (14 chapters)
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Configuring Primary and Secondary NSX Manager(s)


In this recipe, we will go through the steps to promote a standalone NSX Manager to primary and another to secondary. The rationale as to which site should be primary and which should be secondary typically aligns to the primary and disaster recovery data center designation. However, this rule does not mandate how to determine which side is primary and your reasoning may differ. It is important to choose which side is going to be primary with careful planning as this is where the local controller cluster will take the role of the UCC and therefore be a critical component of your Cross-vCenter NSX network topology.

In the following diagram, we have outlined our two vCenter environments and their corresponding NSX Managers. It is expected both have been deployed as per the steps highlighted in Chapter 1, Getting Started with VMware NSX for vSphere, and assume the role of standalone to begin with:

Getting ready

To configure NSX Primary and Secondary...

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