The VMware vRealize Operations Management pack for NSX-vSphere is a must have for network operations and virtual infrastructure operations team who are planning on scaling their virtual networking functions out across 100's of vSphere hosts.
This management pack discovers, analyzes and represents the broad number of virtual networking services available within NSX-vSphere graphically.
Administrators can view this data for quickly identifying configuration, health and/or capacity problems within their virtual NSX networks, and see the impact of these problems with vSphere hosts and virtual machines.
Friday, September 26. 2014
Getting Started Guide for NSX vSphere
This document provides step-by-step examples that demonstrate how to set up the following network services in NSX for vSphere:
- Logical Switches
- Logical Distributed Router
- Distributed Firewalls
- Logical Centralized Routers (Edge) with Dynamic Routing and with many-to-one NAT
- Logical Load Balancers (Edge)
At the end, you'll have the following logical network deployed in your lab:
Friday, September 19. 2014
NSX Design Guide v2.1
IT organizations have gained significant benefits as a direct result of server virtualization. Server consolidation reduced
physical complexity, increased operational efficiency, and the ability to dynamically re-purpose underlying resources to
quickly and optimally meet the needs of increasingly dynamic business applications are just a handful of the gains that
have already been realized.
Now, VMware’s Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) architecture is extending virtualization technologies across the entire physical data center infrastructure. VMware NSX, the network virtualization platform, is a key product in the SDDC architecture. With VMware NSX, virtualization now delivers for networking what it has already delivered for compute and storage.
In much the same way that server virtualization programmatically creates, snapshots, deletes and restores software-based virtual machines (VMs), VMware NSX network virtualization programmatically creates, snapshots, deletes, and restores software-based virtual networks.
The result is a completely transformative approach to networking that not only enables data center managers to achieve orders of magnitude better agility and economics, but also allows for a vastly simplified operational model for the underlying physical network.
With the ability to be deployed on any IP network, including both existing traditional networking models and next generation fabric architectures from any vendor, NSX is a completely non-disruptive solution. In fact, with NSX, the physical network infrastructure you already have is all you need to deploy a software-defined data center.
Now, VMware’s Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) architecture is extending virtualization technologies across the entire physical data center infrastructure. VMware NSX, the network virtualization platform, is a key product in the SDDC architecture. With VMware NSX, virtualization now delivers for networking what it has already delivered for compute and storage.
In much the same way that server virtualization programmatically creates, snapshots, deletes and restores software-based virtual machines (VMs), VMware NSX network virtualization programmatically creates, snapshots, deletes, and restores software-based virtual networks.
The result is a completely transformative approach to networking that not only enables data center managers to achieve orders of magnitude better agility and economics, but also allows for a vastly simplified operational model for the underlying physical network.
With the ability to be deployed on any IP network, including both existing traditional networking models and next generation fabric architectures from any vendor, NSX is a completely non-disruptive solution. In fact, with NSX, the physical network infrastructure you already have is all you need to deploy a software-defined data center.
This document is targeted toward virtualization and network architects interested in deploying VMware® NSX network virtualization solution in a vSphere environment.
Monday, August 25. 2014
VMware NSX Transforms Networking and Security Operations in the Software-Defined Data Center
At VMworld 2014, VMware, Inc. showcased the continued maturity of the industry’s most complete network virtualization platform for the software-defined data center with the launch of VMware NSX™ 6.1 and the general availability of more than a dozen partner solutions.
VMware NSX adoption is accelerating, driven by the platform’s ability to drive application provisioning times down from months to minutes, and to address fundamental issues with data center security architecture.
VMware NSX delivers security that is built directly into the data center infrastructure,and allows customers to insert advanced partner services to improve threat protection, reduce risk and help customers address their compliance requirements in the software-defined data center. VMware NSX is not only changing the networking paradigm, but is advancing data center security in a way that was previously neither economically nor operationally feasible.
VMware NSX adoption is accelerating, driven by the platform’s ability to drive application provisioning times down from months to minutes, and to address fundamental issues with data center security architecture.
VMware NSX delivers security that is built directly into the data center infrastructure,and allows customers to insert advanced partner services to improve threat protection, reduce risk and help customers address their compliance requirements in the software-defined data center. VMware NSX is not only changing the networking paradigm, but is advancing data center security in a way that was previously neither economically nor operationally feasible.
News Facts:
- VMware announces the general availability of VMware NSX 6.1, advancing security, scalability and performance for software-defined data centers and the hybrid cloud.
- VMware NSX has more than 150 customers and a greater than $100 million annual sales run rate.
- VMware NSX customers include four of the top U.S. financial institutions, leading public and private sector enterprises and some of the world’s largest service providers.
- VMware NSX is now available through VMware’s reseller channel, and VMware expects to have more than 100 trained partners selling NSX by the end of 2014.
- 14 ecosystem partners will have generally available products that are interoperable with VMware NSX by the end of Q3 2014.
- VMware announced the first 38 recipients of the newly minted VCDX-NV certification. VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) is the highest level of certification offered by VMware, and now includes a special competency focused on network virtualization.
- VMware now offers a full schedule of classes for the comprehensive “VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage” training course to help networking and IT systems professionals in their career evolution.
- VMware has more than 40 break outs sessions about networking and security at VMworld 2014 in San Francisco.
Read the full paper here
Wednesday, June 11. 2014
Free Webinar - Introduction to VMware NSX
VMware NSX is the network virtualization and security platform for the software-defined data center. NSX brings virtualization to your existing network and transforms network operations and economics. Join us for this webinar for an introduction to the major features of VMware NSX including:
- Logical switching
- Distributed routing
- Layer 2 bridging
- Distributed firewall
The webinar is designed for you to learn how VMware NSX fundamentally changes the data center by adding agility and efficiency to network operations.
Register
Register
Thursday, May 15. 2014
Path to the Software Defined Data Center: Virtualize Your Network with VMware NSX
Please join VMware for a complementary, half-day educational event for IT professionals interested in learning about implementing network virtualization within a Software-Defined Data Center to deliver speed and agility.
Session will highlight:
- The Software-Defined Data Center approach
- Lessons learned from real production customers
- Using VMware NSX to deliver never before possible data center security and micro-segmentation
- How to deploy VMware NSX over your existing infrastructure
- Who should attend?
People who will benefit from attending this session include:
- CIO, CTO and General Managers
- IT, Infrastructure and Datacenter Managers
- Network professionals, including CCIEs
- IT Architects
- Networking Managers and Administrators
- Security Managers and Administrators