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VMware NSX Network Essentials

You're reading from   VMware NSX Network Essentials Join the revolution in Software Defined Networking

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Sreejith.C is a solution consultant at Mannai corporation based out of Qatar. He specializes in storage, virtualization, private, public, hybrid cloud, and SDN. He determines customer requirements and designs VMware Cloud-based solution architectures spanning VMware’s product portfolio from the vCloud Suite to meet the functional and business requirements of various sizes of organisation, and across verticals. He holds various advanced and professional certifications: VCAP-CIA,VCAP 55-DCV,CCNA-DC, VCP-NV, VCP-CLOUD-5/6, VCP- 6/5/4, EMC-ISA, EMCISA-V2, EMCIE, and MCTS-AD2008. He has instructed multiple candidates on EMC and VMware technologies on a wide range of products such as Symmetrix, VMAX, vCloud Director, VCNS, NSX, and vCloud Air. He enjoys speaking at customer forums by sharing his ideas and also participates in VMware Community forums. You can contact him on LinkedIn ID at http://www.linkedin.com/pub/sreejith-c/44/b3/a2a n Sreejith is married to Sthuthi and they are blessed with a beautiful daughter called Naomi.
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Preface 1. Introduction to Network Virtualization FREE CHAPTER 2. NSX Architecture 3. NSX Manager Installation and Configuration 4. NSX Virtual Networks and Logical Router 5. NSX Edge Services 6. NSX Security Features 7. NSX Cross vCenter 8. NSX Troubleshooting

NSX vSphere components

NSX uses the management plane, control plane, and data plane models. The components are represented diagrammatically in the following diagram:

NSX vSphere components

The management plane

The management plane contains the NSX Manager and vCenter Server. It is important to know that each NSX Manager should be registered with only one vCenter Server. The NSX Manager provides a management UI and API for NSX. We will be discussing NSX Manager and vCenter Server integration during NSX Manager installation and configuration modules. Once the integration is done, NSX Manager can be managed from a vSphere web client, which acts as a single pane of glass for configuring and securing the vSphere infrastructure. Immediate benefit is network administrators no longer need to switch between multiple management consoles. All network services can be configured and monitored from a single interface.

The control plane

The control plane primarily consists of NSX Controllers and the control VM, which allows...

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