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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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Introduction


NSX is accessed from a vSphere web client through the NSX Networking & Security plugin. The vSphere web client itself is predominantly accessed by the server virtualization operations team, but after the initial deployment of NSX, the network and security operations will also need to access the vSphere web client to access NSX. It is common for organizations to have a dedicated team for networking and security and such organizations would require a secure method for restricting account access to authorized users.

NSX supports role-based access control (RBAC) and there are four available roles:

  • Enterprise Administrator (enterprise_admin in REST API): Full access role with read and write REST API calls (HTTP GET, POST, UPDATE, DELETE)
  • Security Administrator (security_adminin REST API): Security-only access role with read-only access REST API calls (HTTP GET)
  • NSX Administrator (vshield_adminin REST API): NSX-only access role outside of security features with read-only access REST...

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