VMware NSX overview
Juniper 5 daagse
Geordy Korte
10 Feb 2014
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Keep calm and don’t blink!
The Software Defined Datacenter
There are two approaches
Hardware Defined
Data Center (HDDC)
OR
Any Application
Any Application
SDDC Platform
HDDC Platform
Integrated Storage
Vendor Specific
Network
Data Center Virtualization
Vertical Integration
Integrated x86
Software Defined
Data Center (SDDC)
Software
Controller
Any x86
Any Storage
Any IP network
The anatomy of the modern data center
Hardware Defined
Data Center (HDDC)
Google / Facebook /
Amazon Data Centers
Custom Application
Any Application
Software / Hardware Abstraction
Integrated x86
Integrated Storage
Vendor Specific
Network
Vertical Integration
HDDC Platform
Software Defined
Data Center (SDDC)
Any Application
Custom Platform
SDDC Platform
Software / Hardware Abstraction
Data Center Virtualization
Any x86
Any x86
Any Storage
Any Storage
Any IP network
Any IP network
The power of SDDC – Intra Data Center
Software Defined
Data Center (SDDC)
Any Application
Any Application
SDDC Platform
Data Center Virtualization
Any x86
Any x86
Any Storage
Any Storage
Any IP network
Any IP network
Intra Data Center
The Power of SDDC – Inter Data Center
Software Defined
Data Center (SDDC)
Any Application
SDDC Platform
Data Center Virtualization
Any x86
Any x86
Any Storage
Any Storage
Any IP network
Any IP network
Inter Data Center
Intra Data Center
The Power of SDDC – Hybrid Data Center
Software Defined
Data Center (SDDC)
Software Defined
Data Center (SDDC)
VMware vCloud Hybrid
Service Providers
Any Application
SDDC Platform
Data Center Virtualization
Data Center Virtualization
Any x86
Any x86
Any x86
Any Storage
Any Storage
Any Storage
Any IP network
Any IP network
Any IP network
Inter Data Center
Intra Data Center
Hybrid Data Center
Component requirements
Building an SDDC
A data center network…
Internet
Compute infrastructure….
Internet
Hypervisors and vSwitches…
Internet
NSX | The “Network Hypervisor”
Internet
Virtual Networks – Like Virtual Machines for the Network
Internet
A Virtual Network?
A Virtual Network?
Non-Disruptive Deployment
Programmatically Provisioned
Services Distributed to the Virtual Switch
Physical Workloads and Legacy VLANs
Security – Complete Isolation
Virtual Networks are isolated from each other
(Overlapping IP Addresses)
Virtual Networks are isolated from underlying
physical network (IPv6 over IPv4)
Central Policies, Distributed Enforcement, Move with VMs
Security Policy
Security Policy
Internet
The power of distribution
The Power of Distribution
The Power of Distribution
Scale
Scale-out Controller Cluster
100,000 Virtual Machines
30,000 Virtual Networks
Ecosystem
VMware NSX Ecosystem – Technology Partners
Great so we get to be the first?
Thank You
gkorte@vmware.com
@gekort
Backup
Data Plane
NSX – How it Works
VM1
Control Plane
Gateway Service
Appliance/VM
VM1
Existing
DC
Network(s)
Corpnet
20.1.1.2
10.1.1.10
IP
Transport Network
VLAN 9
11.1.1.10
10.2.2.10
SRV4
VM2
VM3
VM2
SRV5
10.97.110.10
Virtual
Network
VM1
VM2
Corpnet
20.1.1.2
1
2
VM1
VM2
1
2
Cloud
Management
Platform
NSX
Controller Cluster
VM3
VLAN 9
192.168.1.0/24
Northbound REST API
SRV4
SRV5