It seems to be trending more and more around NSX. I have been meaning to post this blog around how VMware’s Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) architecture extends virtualization technologies across the entire physical data center infrastructure. VMware NSX, the network virtualization platform, is a key product in the SDDC architecture.
Having the ability to be deployed on any IP network, including both existing traditional networking models and next generation fabric architectures from any vendor, NSX is a completely non-disruptive solution. In fact, with NSX, the physical network infrastructure and services you already have are all you need to deploy a software-defined data center. In brownfield environments NSX can provide programmatic connectivity via L2 bridging or L3 routing and service insertion of existing physical services such as Load-Balancers and Firewalls, so such legacy services can be integrated and consumed by NSX Logical Networks.
Please check out this link on Deploying NSX on a Brownfield DC Network
Throughout the rest of this paper we will analyze dierent customer migration scenarios where NSX functionality can be seamlessly introduced in existing brownfield networks with minimal disruption and incremental functionality for the Data Center design. In the first deployment scenario the goal is to introduce NSX on top of the brownfield network infrastructure; the assumption is that no major modifications are required in the network infrastructure itself. The specific scenario considered for this discussion is a traditional 3 layers DC network (access, aggregation, core).
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Having the ability to be deployed on any IP network, including both existing traditional networking models and next generation fabric architectures from any vendor, NSX is a completely non-disruptive solution. In fact, with NSX, the physical network infrastructure and services you already have are all you need to deploy a software-defined data center. In brownfield environments NSX can provide programmatic connectivity via L2 bridging or L3 routing and service insertion of existing physical services such as Load-Balancers and Firewalls, so such legacy services can be integrated and consumed by NSX Logical Networks.
Please check out this link on Deploying NSX on a Brownfield DC Network
Throughout the rest of this paper we will analyze dierent customer migration scenarios where NSX functionality can be seamlessly introduced in existing brownfield networks with minimal disruption and incremental functionality for the Data Center design. In the first deployment scenario the goal is to introduce NSX on top of the brownfield network infrastructure; the assumption is that no major modifications are required in the network infrastructure itself. The specific scenario considered for this discussion is a traditional 3 layers DC network (access, aggregation, core).
