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Network virtualization with
VMware NSX
The story so far
NSX customer and
business momentum
700+
NSX Customers
100+
production deployments
(adding 25-50 per quarter)
65+
organizations
have invested $1M+ in NSX
Networking is a
software industry
NSX in open source
environments
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organizations contributing
to Open vSwitch
20%
of NSX production
deployments use OpenStack
100k+
KVM VMs in a single
NSX deployment
Network virtualization with VMware NSX today
Internet
Major NSX use cases
Physical Workload
VM
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Tech preview: Distributed load balancing
Logical View Physical View
Web Tier
Load
Balancer
App Servers
NSX NSX
vswitch vswitch
Load
Balancer
Database
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Containers
Website
Website
Internet
Website
Port 80
Website
Internal App
Container networking today
Internal
network
Internal App
Database
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Tech preview: Containers with VMware NSX
NSX provides Internal
segmentation, Internet
network
visibility, and
integration Micro-
segmentation
Alert
Connection
to data center
HONEY POT
Internal App
Internal App
Data center
Database
Website
Website
Website
Website VULNERABILITY
SCANNER
Micro- Connection
segmentation
Alert to data center
Micro- Connection
segmentation
Alert
to data center
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Public clouds
Power of cloud: workload mobility
Lock-in through services
NSX
Hyper-‐V
Virtual infrastructure
Physical network
NSX tomorrow: virtual networking for all platforms
Speed
Provision connectivity for
any endpoint across
different domains.
Virtual desktop
Mobile devices
Agility
Automate provisioning
via templates and
rich APIs.
Hyper-‐V
Public clouds
On-premise data
center
Security
Consistent security posture
and visibility across all
types of endpoints. Third-generation
apps
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Some additional resources
• Watch Bruce Davie’s VMworld US 2015 session NET4989, “The Future of Network
Virtualization with VMware NSX”
• Watch Guido Appenzeller’s VMworld US 2015 spotlight session, “The Next Horizon for Cloud
Networking” (video recording available on YouTube at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBJ-KoAM-OQ)
• Tons more VMware NSX content available from VMworld—VMUG Advantage members have
access to all this content!
• Learn more about VMware NSX using the VMware Hands-On Labs at http://hol.vmware.com
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Questions &
Answers
Thank You!
Scott Lowe
slowe@vmware.com
Twitter: @scott_lowe
Blog: http://blog.scottlowe.org
GitHub: https://github.com/lowescott