NSX

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.

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.

This video explains how VMware vCloud Automation Center discovers, consumes, and provisions VMware security and network services.

vCAC and NSX – Dynamically Configure Application Specific Network Services

Many organizations have taken advantage of the operational efficiencies that come from server virtualization. These efficiencies have reduced the time to deploy new applications from weeks to days. Until now, however, the process for provisioning the necessary infrastructure services to run those enterprise applications has remained a mostly manual and time-consuming process.

This can diminish the gains initially achieved by server virtualization and can hinder the adoption of cloud computing. The integration of F5 and VMware products helps solve these challenges. VMware NSX transforms network operations and economics in the data center by enabling neverbefore-possible service delivery speed, increasing agility, and dramatically reducing both the capital and operational costs associated with networking and security improvements.

With F5® BIG-IQ™ Cloud, IT administrators can provide the full suite of services offered by BIG-IP® products—such as BIG-IP® Local Traffic Manager™ (LTM), BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager™, BIG-IP Access Policy Manager®, and others—directly from within NSX Manager as part of the normal virtual machine deployment sequence. This shortens the all-inclusive application provisioning process from days to just minutes.