March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
13h 51m
English
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NSX for vSphere platform
NSX for vSphere creates a network virtualization layer on top of which all virtual networks are created. This layer is an abstraction between the physical and virtual networks. The components required to create this network virtualization layer are as follows:
- vCenter Server
- NSX Manager
- NSX Controller
- NSX Virtual Switch
- NSX for vSphere API
These components are separated into the following planes to create communication boundaries and provide isolation for workload data from system control messages:
- Data plane
- Control plane
- Management plane
VM data is limited completely within the data plane. Different virtual machine data is differentiated from other virtual machines, because it is on different logical switches. ...