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You're reading from VMware NSX Cookbook Over 70 recipes to master the network virtualization skills to implement, validate, operate, upgrade, and automate VMware NSX for vSphere

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781782174257

Length 584 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

VMware NSX

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Tony Sangha

Bayu Wibowo

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with VMware NSX for vSphere FREE CHAPTER

2. Configuring VMware NSX Logical Switch Networks

3. Configuring VMware NSX Logical Routing

4. Configuring VMware NSX Layer 2 Bridging

5. Configuring VMware NSX Edge Services Gateway

6. Configuring VMware NSX Distributed Firewall (DFW) and SpoofGuard

7. Configuring Cross-vCenter NSX

8. Backing up and Restoring VMware NSX Components

9. Managing User Accounts in VMware NSX

10. Upgrading VMware NSX

11. Managing and Monitoring VMware NSX Platform

12. Leveraging the VMware NSX REST API for Management and Automation

13. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Integrating Hardware VTEP Gateway with VMware NSX

In order for the hardware VTEP gateway to be discovered by the VMware NSX, an OVSDB connection must be setup between each hardware VTEP gateway and the NSX controller, which we will cover in this recipe. In this example, we will setup the OVSDB server to enable the HSC service on a hardware VTEP gateway leaf-01a and connect it to the NSX controller running the OVSDB client with the IP address 192.168.110.16 on port 6640 for OVSDB, as shown in the following screenshot:

Getting ready

To add a hardware VTEP gateway to VMware NSX, the following prerequisites need to be satisfied:

NSX Manager must be deployed and configured
NSX Controllers must be deployed
VXLAN must be configured...

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Authors (2)

Bayu Wibowo

Bayu Wibowo is a seasoned network virtualization consultant in the APJ arena. With over 10 years of industry experience, he has rapidly earned reputation and awards for his community involvement as Cisco Champion, VMware vExpert NSX, and VMTN Community Warrior. Working as a network virtualization consultant for Datacom, he now plays an integral part in the implementation of multiple innovative technologies, including VMware NSX, Open Networking, and numerous more. Follow him on Twitter @bayupw.

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Tony Sangha

Tony Sangha is a senior consulting architect at VMware Professional Services with over 12 years of experience in networking and security roles, who has worked for a systems integrator across various industry verticals. He guides customers across Australia and New Zealand to design and implement a Software Defined Datacenter using VMware technologies and specializes in VMware NSX. He has presented at multiple VMUG and vForum events across ANZ and is an active community contributor via his blog and open source projects on GitHub. You can follow him on Twitter at @tsangha.

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