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This Getting Started Guide: Offers a presentation of DLB Explain how to enable DLB + configure DLB VIP Give an example on how to demo DLB Offers a video of DLB List known limitation on the current DLB preview !!! Attention: DLB is a preview feature and not for production !!! Note: Document updated with NSX-v 6.2.3 latest enhancements. Dimitri

This an updated version of the NSX Operations Guides showing how to perform day-to-day monitoring and management of an NSX for vSphere ("NSX-v") deployment. Guide explains how to retrieve statistics, flow information, packet information, and event logs. Various sections were updated in this latest rev.1.5, see the version history in the paper for more details.

This is a First edition the VMware® NSX for vSphere Brownfield Design and Deployment Guide Authors:VMware NSX Technical Product Management Team This document is targeted toward virtualization and network architects interested in deploying the VMware® NSX Network virtualization solution in a Brownfield vSphere environment. In this edition the guide analyzes design and deployment considerations in the following scenarios: 1. Introducing NSX Micro-segmentation 2. Deploying Full NSX functionality (including Micro-segmentation) with Overlays 3. Deploying NSX as Greenfield and migrating legacy applications revision history: 1.1 version was also moved in the official VMware Corporate Template 1.2 clarifies a comment about having separate Control VMs for Bridging and Routing: a Logical Switch can only be attached to a single Control VM so if distributed routing and bridging are both needed for a group of LS, bridging will happen on the hypervisor where the DLR control VM resides (no scale out possible in that case.) Feedback and Comments to the Authors are highly appreciated. --NSX Technical Product Management Team

NSX deployments can be today coupled with F5 BIG-IP appliances or Virtual Edition. Such deployment gives to NSX customers a flexible, powerful, and agile infrastructure with the richness of F5 ADC service. Note: F5 deployment + configuration done from F5. This design guide provides recommended practices and topologies to optimize interoperability between the NSX platform and F5 BIG-IP physical and virtual appliances.

As NSX gains broader adoption, we have heard many customer requests for guidance to help them run NSX on top of the latest Cisco infrastructure, UCS and Nexus 9000 series switches. With customers choosing the benefits of NSX along with the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC), the underlying hardware (Ethernet fabric, x86 compute, etc) provides reliable, resilient capacity, but the configuration, state and advanced features move to faster, more flexible software. As with any IP fabric, NSX works great with Nexus 9K as the underlay. The combination of NSX and Nexus 9K in standalone mode enables the benefits customers have chosen to embrace with SDDC. The reference architecture along with the VMware NSX for vSphere Network Virtualization Design Guide provides guidance for network virtualization architects interested in deploying VMware NSX for vSphere for network virtualization with Cisco UCS blade servers and Cisco Nexus 9000 Series switches. It discusses the fundamental building blocks of NSX with VMware ESXi, recommended configurations with Cisco UCS and connectivity of Cisco UCS to Nexus 9000 switches.

This is the Version 2.1 of the VMware® NSX for vSphere Security Configuration Guide . This guide provides prescriptive guidance for customers on how to deploy and operate VMware® NSX in a secure manner. VMware NSX Congifuration Guide Authors: Pravin Goyal, Greg Christopher, Michael Haines, Roberto Mari, Kausum Kumar, Wade Holmes Acknowledgements to the following contributors for reviewing and providing feedback to various sections of the document: Kausum Kumar, Roberto Mari, Scott Lowe, Ben Lin, Bob Motanagh, Dmitri Kalintsev, Greg Frascadore, Hadar Freehling,  Kiran Kumar Thota, Pierre Ernst, Rob Randell, Roie Ben Haim, Yves Fauser, Umar Saeed Guide is provided in an easy to consume spreadsheet format, with rich metadata (i.e. similar to existing VMware vSphere Security Configuration Guides) to allow for guideline classification and risk assessment. Feedback and Comments to the Authors and the NSX Solution Team can be posted as comments to this community Post (Note: users must login on vmware communities before posting a comment). A related document covering fundamentals of how one can securely deploy network virtualization with NSX is the "Securing NSX for vSphere" posted at the Link: https://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-27674 --The VMware NSX Solution Team

Attached is our NSX POC Guide/Requirements Checklist which covers the requirements for an NSX evaluation including hardware, software and configuration guidelines. v1.6 is current for NSX vSphere version 6.1.1. regards, Ray

This document covers how one can create security policy rules in VMware NSX. This will cover the different options of configuring security rules either through the Distributed Firewall or via the Service Composer User Interface. It will cover all the unique options NSX offers to create dynamic policies based on the infrastructure context. Thanks to Francis Guillier, Kausum Kumar and Srini Nimmagadda for helping author this document. Regards NSX Team Supporting documents: Getting Started with Micro-Segmentation with NSX vSphere & VMware® NSX for vSphere Network Virtualization Design Guide ver 3.0

First release of the Data Center/Enterprise Reference Architecture: Network Virtualization with Dell Infrastructure and VMware NSX Authors: Dell and VMware This document is targeted toward virtualization and network architects interested in deploying the VMware® NSX Network virtualization Solution along with Dell Networking and Storage infrastructure. Technology components used in this Reference Architecture are: VMware® NSX Network virtualization Solution vSphere ESXi Hypervisors Dell MXL Blade Switches Dell S4810 Switches and Dell S6000 (32x40 GbE) switches at the core/spine Dell EqualLogic DCB-capable Storage Arrays A final version of this Reference Guide will be posted on our NSX Technical Resources website (link below) after VMworld 2014: http://www.vmware.com/products/nsx/resources.html Feedback and Comments to the Dell and VMware NSX authors are highly appreciated. Regards, --Roberto Mari

This is a updated edition of the VMware® NSX for vSphere Network Virtualization Design Guide Authors:VMware NSX Technical Product Management Team This document is targeted toward virtualization and network architects interested in deploying VMware® NSX Network virtualization solution in a vSphere environment. In this version 3.0 edition the guide was updated to provide new additional context around: 1. Sizing for small and medium data centers with NSX 2. Routing best practices 3. Micro-segmentation and service composer design guidance Thanks to all the contributors and reviewers to various sections of the document. A final version of this Reference Guide will be posted soon on our NSX Technical Resources website (link below): http://www.vmware.com/products/nsx/resources.html Feedback and Comments to the Authors and the NSX Solution Team are highly appreciated. --The VMware NSX Solution Team

Hello, This is a new layout of the VMware and Arista Technical Paper covering the OVSDB integration of VMware NSX for Multi-Hypervisors and Arista ToRs. A final version of this Technical Paper will be posted on our NSX Technical Resources website (link below) after VMworld 2014: http://www.vmware.com/products/nsx/resources.html Feedback/Comments for the VMware NSX and Arista Solutions Teams will be highly appreciated. Regards, --Roberto Mari

Hello, This is a second revision in a new Document Template of the VMware® NSX for Multi-Hypervisor Reference Architecture and Network Virtualization Design Guide Author: Max Ardica This document is targeted toward virtualization and network architects interested in deploying the VMware® NSX Network virtualization solution in a multi-hypervisor environment. Thanks to Dimitri Desmidt for co-authoring, reviewing and providing feedback to various sections of the document. This Reference Guide will be also posted soon on our NSX Technical Resources website (link below): http://www.vmware.com/products/nsx/resources.html Feedback and Comments to the Author and the NSX Solution Team are highly appreciated. Regards, --Roberto Mari

Hello, This is a first version of the VMware and Juniper Technical Paper covering NSX and Juniper Layer 2 Gateway Service integration. A final version of this Technical Paper will be posted on our NSX Technical Resources website (link below) after VMworld 2014: http://www.vmware.com/products/nsx/resources.html Feedback/Comments to the VMware NSX and Juniper Solutions Teams will be highly appreciated. Regards, --Roberto Mari