SDN with VMware NSX-v (for vSphere)
In this page I’m collecting all the articles of the series “NSX for Newbies” .
Starting from the introduction to the core components to the implementation of the solution, you will have a step-by-step guide to follow so that you could easily build your own lab.
- NSX for Newbies – Part 1: Introduction to NSX for vSphere
- NSX for Newbies – Part 2: Nested home lab for NSX
- NSX for Newbies – Part 3: Install NSX Manager
- NSX for Newbies – Part 4: Preparing for Virtual Networking
- NSX for Newbies – Part 5: Configure Logical Switch Networks
- NSX for Newbies – Part 6: Distributed Logical Router (DLR)
- NSX for Newbies – Part 7: NSX Edge Gateway
- NSX for Newbies – Part 8: Dynamic routing with OSPF
- NSX for Newbies – Part 9: L2-VPN and stretched Logical Networks (on 6.1+)
- NSX for Newbies – Part 10: Network Address Translation (NAT) on NSX
- NSX for Newbies – Part 11: Load Balancing
- NSX for Newbies – Part 12: Configure IPsec VPN
- NSX for Newbies – Part 12: SSL VPN-Plus
The 2 last links (Part 8 and Part 9) are incorrect, if you could fix them 🙂
Thanks Timo for the heads-up, fixed 🙂
Hey Giuliano,
I have been trying to set up NSX from quiet a while now but havent been successful.. some insight would be helpful.
So i have a 10.a.b.x subnet as my external network.
So my vCenter in on 10.a.b.43
esx1 on 10.a.b.27
esx2 on 10.a.b.28
esx3 on 10.a.b.29
NSX manager is on 10.a.b.48
the three controllers on 10.a.b.211 212 and 213
The VXLAN IPs are 10.a.b.214 215 and 216
The physical gateway is 10.a.b.252
we have some subnets with no configuration
192.168.30.x/25 VLAN 130
192.168.31.x/25 VLAN 131
192.168.32.x/25 VLAN 132
192.168.33.x/25 VLAN 133
192.168.34.x/25 VLAN 134
192.168.35.x/25 VLAN 135
We have a vDS which connects to all 10.a.b.x IPs VLAN 113
So now I cant get the 192 ips to communicate with 10.a.b.x IPs no matter what i do…
I have tried all possible configs of Perimeter Gateway Edge and Even Logical Distributed Routers
Thanks in advance
-Rishab
Hi Rishab,
do you have a diagram somewhere? Who is routing between all the subnets you mentioned? I need a bit more details to be able to help 🙂
Thank you.
What a fantastic series. Thank you for all the hard work you put into this.
You’re welcome Jeff, I’m glad it’s helping someone out there 🙂
Could nsx i simulate on the laptop?
depends on how much RAM you have I’d say. at the very minimum you will consume 16GB on top of your OS so best would be 32GB. I don’t know if you can find a laptop with such amount of RAM
I saw this blog series and looks some old, do you have some more new focus on NSX 6.3 release? Or can I use the same approach using your current blog series to install NSX in my lab? I entirely new in NSX space and I asked this fundamental question because some versions have a lot of changes related to installation procedures…
Hi Fernando,
the basic principles still applies on the latest version of NSX (6.4 as of today). However you may find minor differences when configuring interfaces for example. 6.4 has also a new HTML5 GUI. the architecture is still the same.
Guiliano, thank you so much for posting this. It is excellent. After I tried VMware HOL I wanted to go a step further and build my own. I was delighted to find your series – and you write with great humanity too! I hope you get rewarded for providing such great material for fee. I am stuck with installing the VIBs in my lab because it fails without an NSX licence. I have contacted VMware for eval lic. but no answer yet.
Giuliano Bertello, thank you so much for your posts. It’s so great. I’m following and trying to build my home lab but I wonder there is any limit about my CPU: 1xIntel Core i5 9400 6cores 6threads?