Eric Sloof

The NSX-T Multi-Location Design Guide is targeted toward virtualization and network architects with NSX-T Data Center good technical background who are interested in deploying VMware NSX-T Data Center in a variety of on-premise Locations.

NSX-T offers two technical solutions for Multi-Locations On-Prem Data Centers:

• NSX-T Federation
• NSX-T Multisite

The NSX-T Multi-Location Design Guide offers guidance and best practices for Network & Security services in your On-Prem locations.

VMware NSX 4.0.1 delivers a new feature that will enable you to use Stateful Edge services in Active/Active High Availability Mode. Learn more about this new feature in this video.

This 200+ page ebook is meant to be a step-by-step guide for you to learn how to use some of the most in-demand IaC tools that exist:

• Terraform
• Ansible
• Puppet (and Puppet Bolt)
• Chef
• Salt (aka SaltStack)

Go through the entire ebook to get a sense for what each technology is all about and how it might fit in to what you do. You can always pick a tool and just use that one. Each tool is covered as mostly a stand-alone project that focuses on deploying a simple Docker-based Python web application from Github.

This updated version of the document aligns with NSX version 3.2. It includes the following updates:

• NSX vCenter server plug-in for the simple security for applications use case
• Distributed Firewall on vCenter distributed virtual port-groups for VLAN-only micro-segmentation
• NSX Application platform as an optional component to support NSX intelligence and Advanced Threat Prevention features for both the simple security for applications and the data center in a box use cases
• NSX Next-Generation gateway firewall as an optional component for the data center in a box use case
• NSX Advanced Load Balancer as an optional component for the data center in a box use case

This document provides guidance and best practices for designing environments that leverage the capabilities of VMware NSX®. It is targeted at virtualization and network architects interested in deploying NSX solutions.

This updated version of the document aligns with NSX version 3.2. It includes a multitude of updates. Highlights are:

• Updated platform overview and positioning 
• OSPF, EVPN, Multicast, Edge HA updates
• Expansion and update of the design guidelines 
• Expansion of the performance and optimization guidelines