Nsx 6.4 Api Guide Registration A Plug

Log in to the vSphere web client and browse to Networking Security, click NSX Managers and verify the newly deployed NSX Manager is present.

Part 2 will walk through the data plane components; host preparation, VTEP VXLAN configuration, transport zone, and logical switches.

Finally in Part 3 well create and configure NSX Edge and Distributed Logical Routers.

Installing ESXi and vCenter Server is not included in the scope of this article, however the following posts may be of use.

NSX comes in Standard, Advanced, and Enterprise editions, the feature differences between editions can be found on the product page here.

You can also view NSX version history on the same site, here.

The NSX model can be broken down into the following sections.

Does not carry data traffic but connects to the management and data planes using the user world agent.

The NSX vSwitch is made up of the distributed switch and kernel modules running in the hypervisor enabling VXLAN bridging capabilities and distributed services.

The NSX Edge acts as gateway device providing L2 bridging from VXLAN to the physical network, as well as other services such as perimeter firewall, load-balancing, VPN, and so on.

For more information on Guest Introspection and service deployments see the NSX Manager Guest Introspection post.

In this example a vCenter Server Appliance has been deployed with 2 vSphere clusters; the management cluster is made up of 3 hosts and will be hosting the vCenter Server, NSX Manager, NSX Controllers, and NSX Edge gateways.

The compute cluster is made up of 4 hosts running virtual machine workloads.

Distributed switches (vDS) are configured, with the usual redundancies, 1 for management and vMotion traffic (different VMkernel ports), 1 for VXLAN, and 1 for NSX Edges to connect out to external networks.

The setup wizards allow you to create an IP Pool at the time of deployment, however if you need to extend an existing IP Pool, or want to create your IP Pools in advance, see this post.

Nsx 6.4 Api Guide Registration A Plug

Upon registration a plug-in is injected into the vSphere web client to enable deployment and management of logical networks and services.

The NSX Manager appliance is preconfigured with 16 GB RAM, 4 vCPU and 60 GB disk.

VMware recommend a memory reservation for NSX Manager in production environments.

Enter the name of the vCenter server to register NSX Manager and the relevant credentials, click Ok.

Configure the vCenter settings under Lookup Service URL by clicking Edit, enter the vCenter host name and SSO details, click Ok.

Browse to the Manage Appliance Settings page, configure a time server and check DNS and host name settings are correct.

You can also configure a syslog server, such as vRealize Log Insight, and change network settings if required.