Introduction to NSX-T and NSX-T features

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In this post, Introduction to NSX-T and NSX-T features, I will discuss what is VMware NSX-T and what are the capabilities or features of the VMware NSX-T product.

What is VMware NSX-T?

VMware NSX-T Data Center is a multi-hypervisor network virtualization and security platform which provides the networking and security services to the virtual machines running on ESXi/KVM hypervisors, containers, AWS instances, etc, a feature-rich product from VMware.

VMware has released VMware NSX-T 1.0, 1.1, 2.0 and 2.1, where  VMware NSX-T 2.1 being the latest release version available.

NSX-T 2.1 Part 01: Introduction and NSX-T features and Capabilities

In this video, I have explained what is VMware NSX-T and what are the capabilities of VMware NSX-T product.

VMware NSX-T features:

  • Multi-hypervisor support: ESXi/KVM
  • Decoupled from the vCenter
  • Separate GUI to manage the NSX-T
  • Any Compute: Virtual Machines, Containers, OpenStack instances, AWS instances, Kubernetes, PKS, PAS
  • Single node NSX Management cluster
  • Three node Control Plane Cluster
  • Fabric Node preparation from NSX Manager
  • Geneve encapsulation
  • nsx-vswitch implements the hostswitch on the ESXi, where the KVM hosts leverages the OVS.
  • Logical switches are Opaque Networks in vCenter Server
  • Distributed Routing:
    • Tier-0 Logical Router, Tier-1 Logical Router
    • 4-byte ASN
    • ECMP
    • NAT on Tier-1/Tier-0 Logical Routers
    • Route Maps
    • Null Routes
    • Loopback interface
  • Logical Routers (Tier-0 & Tier-1) have,
    • Distributed Router
    • Service Router components.
  • NSX Edges are empty containers and hosts the Distributed and Service Router Components.
  • No Dynamic Routing protocols between Tier-1 and Tier-0 Logical Router
  • Distributed Firewall & Edge firewall
  • Tier-0 Logical router in High availability mode (Active/Active or Active/Standby)
  • Tier-1 Logical Router in High availability mode (Active/Standby)
  • DDI:
    • DHCP
    • DNS
    • IP Management:
  • OpenStack support
  • Duplicate IP Detection
  • REST API support
  • Operations:
    • IPFIX
    • Port Connectivity
    • NETFLOW
    • Tech support bundle
    • NSXCLI command line
    • Port mirroring
    • TRACEFLOW
    • Upgrade Coordinator
    • Log insight content pack

Documentation:

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-NSX-T/index.html

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