{"id":597,"date":"2016-02-23T00:48:17","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T06:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.escarra.org\/?p=597"},"modified":"2016-02-23T00:48:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T06:48:40","slug":"nsx-lab-in-a-night-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.escarra.org\/?p=597","title":{"rendered":"VMware NSX Lab in a night = awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230; VMware&#8217;s NSX is super awesome! I&#8217;m one of those weird guys\u00a0that find playing with networking and virtualization on a Monday night more fun and exciting than a weekend in Vegas. Ok, maybe not so much, but still somehow I managed to stay up past midnight deploying an NSX &#8220;Lab&#8221;\u00a0just by messing with it. I say screw the guide, I learn better by just pressing buttons and breaking things&#8230; I&#8217;m not doing this for a client so what gives? Let&#8217;s poke&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>After some fun I&#8217;ve gone from just knowing concepts of SDN to a fully usable network running on top of VMware NSX. It&#8217;s complete with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Single 6.2 controller<\/li>\n<li>VXLAN transport on a Force10 S60 with PIM and IGMP snooping enabled\n<ul>\n<li>Since I already had Distributed vSwitches, it was very easy to provision the transport<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Multicast Transport Zone and segment ID<\/li>\n<li>Single NSX Edge running OSPF connecting to\u00a0the S60 core and redistributing connected networks<\/li>\n<li>Single logical switch (for now)<\/li>\n<li>Two VM&#8217;s on two different hosts to\u00a0test connectivity<\/li>\n<li>Smiles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Captured live flows while downloading a CentOS ISO from a mirror site just to test speeds.<\/p>\n<p><img data-attachment-id=\"598\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blog.escarra.org\/?attachment_id=598\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blog.escarra.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-23-at-12.35.01-AM.png\" data-orig-size=\"1003,269\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screen Shot 2016-02-23 at 12.35.01 AM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blog.escarra.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-23-at-12.35.01-AM-300x80.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blog.escarra.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-23-at-12.35.01-AM.png\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-598 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.escarra.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-23-at-12.35.01-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-02-23 at 12.35.01 AM\" width=\"1003\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.escarra.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-23-at-12.35.01-AM.png 1003w, https:\/\/blog.escarra.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-23-at-12.35.01-AM-300x80.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.escarra.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-23-at-12.35.01-AM-768x206.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1003px) 100vw, 1003px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So far i&#8217;m very impressed with what NSX can do, and i&#8217;ve only scratched the surface. Think stretched networks over L3, per-VM firewall policies both at Layer 3 and Layer 2 levels, Logical routers between virtual switches, each with its own ACLs, HA edges, so many cool things!. Only 59 days left&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s almost 1am and I should really go to sleep now. Good night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230; VMware&#8217;s NSX is super awesome! I&#8217;m one of those weird guys\u00a0that find playing with networking and virtualization on a Monday night more fun and exciting than a weekend in Vegas. Ok, maybe not so much, but still somehow I managed to stay up past midnight deploying an NSX &#8220;Lab&#8221;\u00a0just by messing with it. 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