In this post we'll discuss about NSX control plane in detail. I'll describe the  NSX controllers and functions along with NSX Controller workload distribution. We'll also identify the user world agent in the control plane and the control plane component interactions.

Transport Zones A transport zone controls which hosts a logical switch can reach. It can span one or more host clusters also known as transport nodes. If two transport nodes are in the same transport zone, VMs hosted on those transport nodes can be attached to the NSX logical switch segments that are also in that transport zone. If VMs are attached to switches that are in different transport zones, the VMs cannot communicate with each other.

In this post we will discuss the current challenges with data center routing and the evolution of router placement. Current Challenges in Data Center Routing Current data centers are an agglomeration of several generations of networking and security products. Today's data center networking team faces significant challenges: Manual, complex provisioning of hardware devices and agents Limited placement, mobility, and efficiency due to silos VLAN sprawl, firewall rule sprawl, and static IP inflexibility Several networking and security blind spots Performance choke points due to traffic hairpinning Lack of seamless, instant integration with cloud management platforms and applications

Understanding how traffic is flowing in NSX environment is an important aspect to successfully maintain and troubleshoot networks having NSX. In this post we'll understand hop-by-hop flow of traffic in East-West and North-South directions. East-West: VMs on Same Subnet, Same Host VM-1 has IP address 172.16.20.6 and VM-2 has IP address 172.16.20.7 VM-1 vNIC è Logical Switch (Segment ID 5002) è VM-2 vNIC

NSX-T Manager NSX-T utilizes a multi-tiered networking stack. The NSX Management Cluster is a 3 node high availability cluster. The cluster consists of a converged Management (Policy) & Control Plane cluster services. The NSX management nodes each contain a Management plane, a central control plane, a policy role and a replicated desired state datastore. The NSX Management Cluster provides availability of all management services and increased performance. The converged appliance allows for easier operations with less systems to monitor and maintain.

In this post we'll discuss about the NSX data plane, it's components and how these data plane components interact with each other.

In this post, we'll discuss about NSX Management plane in detail. We'll also Identify the user world agent in the management plane and management plane component interactions.

Understanding the architecture of NSX platform is imperative to continue successful operation of NSX. NSX Operates on a variety of planes and those planes are occupied by various components. Knowledge of those components and on which plane they operate is a key to the deployment, configuration, operational management, and troubleshooting NSX. In this post we'll be discussing about NSX architecture, various planes of NSX operations and various component in each plane.

In this post we'll be discussing about NSX, including it's use cases and key features, which will help us to make informed decisions about our design, deployment, configuration and continued successful operation of NSX. Automation Use Cases Automating IT: Automation allows for quick, secure and automatic deployment of applications and services Developer Cloud: Automation enables developers to use a unified API for on-demand networking and security services. Multi-tenant Infrastructure: Automation empowers organizations to provision and deliver networking and security services to multiple tenants on a shared infrastructure Security Use Cases VMware NSX embeds security functions right in the hypervisor. It delivers micro-segmentation and detailed security to the individual workload, enabling a fundamentally more secure data center. Security policies travel with the workloads, independently of where workloads are in the network topology. Micro-Segmentation: NSX...