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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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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2016
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ISBN-13 9781782172932
Length 274 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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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

Universal Synchronisation Service


The Universal Synchronization Service is responsible for synchronizing configuration changes from the primary NSX Manager instance to all the secondary NSX Manager instances. These are inbuilt services that are running in primary NSX Manager and they do REST API calls to secondary NSX Managers for synchronization. Okay, let's do a few quick tests to see what the state of the service is before we start assigning roles to NSX Managers.

The following figure shows a GUI connection to NSX 6.2 and in the highlighted column we can see the NSX Universal Synchronization Service status:

In our setup, we have two NSX Managers and vCenter Servers are registered with a common Platform Service Controller (PSC). The PSC was introduced in vSphere 6 and handles functions such as vCenter Single Sign-On, licensing, certificate management, and server reservation. Controllers are already deployed in the NSX Manager 192.168.110.15, which will be our primary NSX Manager in a short...

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