Description

Over 70 recipes to champion the skills of network virtualization and security operations using the VMware NSX for vSphere.Key Features



   Over 70 practical recipes created by two VCIX-NV certified NSX experts

   Explore best practices to deploy, operate, and upgrade VMware NSX for vSphere

   Leverage NSX REST API using various tools from Python in VMware vRealize Orchestrator



Book Description

This book begins with a brief introduction to VMware’s NSX for vSphere Network Virtualization solutions and how to deploy and configure NSX components and features such as Logical Switching, Logical Routing, layer 2 bridging and the Edge Services Gateway. Moving on to security, the book shows you how to enable micro-segmentation through NSX Distributed Firewall and Identity Firewall and how to do service insertion via network and guest introspection. After covering all the feature configurations for single-site deployment, the focus then shifts to multi-site setups using Cross-vCenter NSX.

Next, the book covers management, backing up and restoring, upgrading, and monitoring using built-in NSX features such as Flow Monitoring, Traceflow, Application Rule Manager, and Endpoint Monitoring. Towards the end, you will explore how to leverage VMware NSX REST API using various tools from Python to VMware vRealize Orchestrator.