Tag: NSX

NSX Manager – Part 1 – Deploy OVA

This is part 1 of the NSX Manager Installation guide, describing the deployment of the NSX Manager version 6.0.4 OVA file.

This is the first post of a three part series describing the steps to install and configure VMware NSX Manager:

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VCDX-NV Explained

vcdx-nv The VCDX-NV “Blueprint” and “Handbook and Application” are now available at the VMware Certification site.  I have blogged about VCDX-NV before and I tweeted the other day about VCDX-NV which generated quite a bit of conversation.  This post summarises the points raised in that chat.

Ignore version 1.1 of “Handbook and Application”, it was a cut and paste of the DCV blueprint, they need to update the “Index to Highlights” to match the “Blueprint”.  From the Blueprint you can see that the technology silos are:

  • NSX Infrastructure Components
  • Virtual Networking
  • Physical Networking
  • NSX Security
  • NSX – Cloud Management Platform Integration

It makes sense that there is no requirement for Compute, Storage or Virtual Machines in your VCDX-NV design.  So you can use any hypervisor that supports NSX, the only requirement is that you include NSX in your design.

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Most popular NSX use case

From talking to the NSX experts yesterday at “Meet the Experts”, I learned that the most popular use case for NSX is “micro segmentation” within the enterprise, moving firewall filtering between VMs to “ESXi as a service”.  “I thought vCNS does that?”, I hear you ask.  Well, vCNS vShield App is actually a separate virtual appliance, instead NSX provides this functionality as a service within the ESXi kernel, which provides greater scalability and improved performance for large scale enterprise and service providers.

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VMworld US 2014 – Keynote Announcements

Summary of announcements from the Keynote session:

  • Third year of implementing the SDDC strategy
  • NSX is gaining industry recognition and adoption
  • vCloud Suite is rebranded as “vRealize” to incorporate vCHS, vSAN, vVols & vSphere
  • VMware’s foray into the Hyper-Converged market: EVO suite (aka “Marvin” & “VMCI”) with Rail (medium enterprise) and Rack (large enterprise)
  • VMware will contribute code to the Open Stack project to support OpenStack APIs
  • “Containers without compromise” – VMware working with Docker and Google on “container” technologies
  • vCloud Governance service for vCloud Air (aka vCHS) customers with a heavy US Government compliance requirement (available September 2014)

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