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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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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

Creating a Universal Transport Zone and adding a vSphere cluster to the Universal Transport Zone

Only a single Universal Transport Zone can exist in a Cross-vCenter topology. As we reviewed in Chapter 2, Configuring VMware NSX Logical Switch Networks, a transport zone is used to define the scope of a logical switch. In the case of a Cross-vCenter NSX environment, the Universal Transport Zone is used to define the scope of universal logical switches and universal logical routers.

As discussed in the explanation in Chapter 2, Configuring VMware NSX Logical Switch Networks, a transport zone defines the scope of where Logical Switches and Distributed Logical Routers can span. In the case of Universal Transport Zone, we define this scope across vCenter boundaries and it usually spans data centers. A vSphere cluster can be connected to a local transport zone as well as a Universal Transport...

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