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:
L2 bridging, VPN, and service composer are not covered in this document. Likewise, integrations with third party vendors, such as Palo Alto Networks, Symantec and F5, are not covered here.
VMware Certificate Toolkit allows VMware admins to generate faster SSL certificates for VMware products. This tool is not based on OpenSSL, it Java cryptographic API to generate VMware supported SSL certificates.
OSv reduces the memory and cpu overhead imposed by a traditional OS. Scheduling is lightweight, the application and the kernel cooperate, and memory pools are shared. OSv provides unparalleled short latencies and constant predictable performance, which translates directly to capex savings by reducing the size and number of OS instances.
Rapid VM build and deploy
Zero OS Management
DevOps/PaaS like deployment
Common Java framework integration
Optimize your Native apps
Optimized JVM (coming up)
The following images can be used to download standalone OSv image to use directly with KVM, VirtualBox, or VMware.
PowerActions integrates the vSphere Web Client and PowerCLI to provide complex automation solutions from within the standard vSphere management client.
PowerActions is deployed as a plugin for the vSphere Web Client and will allow you to execute PowerCLI commands and scripts in a vSphere Web Client integrated Powershell console.
Furthermore, administrators will be able to enhance the native WebClient capabilities with actions and reports backed by PowerCLI scripts persisted on the vSphere Web Client. Have you ever wanted to “Right Click” an object in the web client and run a PowerCLI script? Now you can!
For example I as an Administrator will be able to define a new action for the VM objects presented in the Web client, describe/back this action with a PowerCLI script, save it in a script repository within the Web client and later re-use the newly defined action straight from the VM object context (right click) menu.
Or, I as an Administrator can create a PowerCLI script that reports all VMs within a Data Center that have snapshots over 30 days old, save it in a script repository within the Web client and later execute this report straight from the Datacenter object context menu.
Or better yet, why not share your pre-written scripts with the rest of the vSphere admins in your environment by simply adjusting them to the correct format and adding them to the shared script folder.
