Chapter 8. Network Virtualization using NSX

This chapter will focus on the network virtualization technologies available for the VMware SDDC. Network virtualization is a new topic that has become important for the agile and flexible data center. When deploying services, the network part is often crucial since there are various security requirements that need to be met with an application. Also, there might be pre-existing network requirements that need to be fulfilled when porting the application to the environment. Finally, it will harm the overall agility if the whole OS deployment and storage deployment can be done automatically, but the network part might actually require human interaction. A true end-to-end automation is not quite possible without network virtualization. If it is not in place, it may cause delays and even roadblocks in SDDC projects.

This chapter will require basic network knowledge since some medium to advanced network configuration will be discussed in here. It will...