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VMware NSX Cookbook: Over 70 recipes to master the network virtualization skills to implement, validate, operate, upgrade, and automate VMware NSX for vSphere by Tony Sangha (Author), Bayu Wibowo

VMware NSX Micro-segmentation – Day 1 offers guidance to security architects and practitioners planning to implement NSX for additional security and visibility through micro-segmentation. VMware NSX Micro-segmentation – Day 1 provides the information needed to plan a security strategy around micro- segmentation using VMware NSX. This includes guidance to plan, design, and implement security policy utilizing micro-segmentation.

VMware NSX Micro-segmentation – Day 2 is a guide designed to help organizations understand how to operationalize micro-segmentation in their environments. VMware NSX Micro-segmentation – Day 2 provides a primer on leveraging tools – VMware vRealize® Log Insight™, Application Rule Manager, and VMware vRealize® Network Insight™ – to build rulesets necessary to facilitate micro-segmentation.

VMware NSX for Disaster Recovery - Day 1 brings together the knowledge and guidance for planning, designing, and implementing a disaster recovery architecture for the software-defined data center that meets the needs of your business. VMware NSX simplifies the DR planning and testing that goes into a resilient infrastructure and drastically reduces the time it takes to recover from an event. It enables true workload portability between data centers, private clouds or public clouds. NSX has helped enterprises recover from natural disasters and outages as well as simplifying the mergers and acquisitions of organizations and their networks. VMware NSX for Disaster Recovery - Day 1 is your roadmap to create a robust network infrastructure within software-defined data centers running NSX. You will find insights and recommendations proven in the field for moving your organization to a resilient, highly available architecture based on VMware NSX.

The realm of technology is one that has traditionally been constructed on silos. We tend to fragment our skills into very specific areas of expertise, even going so far as to isolate the very people who run data center and cloud operations into little buckets of focus and energy. I’d like to think that this, more than anything, was the root cause for such painfully slow progress towards realizing the dream of a fully software defined data center. I had always felt a bit stifled by this organizational fragmentation and thirsted for a way to put my hands on just about any solution that shows the promise of removing the burden of manual processes. Since you’re reading this book, I’ll make the assumption that you have had similar thoughts.

It’s hard to believe how far we’ve come in the virtualization industry. What was once considered a niche technology used only for development and testing is now used for production work- loads and even business-critical applications. The VMware vSphere platform is capable of sup- porting nearly any virtualized workload with very few obstacles standing in the way of close to 100 percent virtualization. Today’s workloads are more demanding than ever before. Email servers frequently require large amounts of memory and CPU resources in order to handle the large volume of email that we all deal with on a daily basis. Database servers often require large amounts of memory and storage resources, from a capacity perspective as well as performance, to meet the demands of a business. And newer technologies, such as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), have intro- duced signii cant demand for resources in vSphere environments.