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VMware NSX Cookbook

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782174257
Length 584 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tony Sangha Tony Sangha
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

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

Introduction

In this chapter, we will show you how to configure and prepare the vSphere cluster for VXLAN and create a logical switch network. Before getting into the recipes, here is background information on VXLAN and other VMware NSX objects that are related to it.

VMware NSX Logical Switch and VXLAN

The VMware NSX logical switch is a layer 2 broadcast domain that is implemented using VXLAN (Virtual eXtensible LAN) overlay network. VXLAN is standardized in IETF RFC 7348 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7348). VXLAN adds 50 bytes on top of the original Ethernet frame (with a standard of 1,500 bytes) and encapsulates the source Ethernet frame in a new UDP packet. The 50 bytes consist of:

  • 8 bytes VXLAN header added on top...
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