NSX

Years ago, presenting on NSX and Networking at the Sacramento VMUG, I was asked for a list of web links to VMware NSX resources. Here we go:

VMware NSX product page: http://www.vmware.com/products/nsx/

VMware NSX 6 Documentation Center: http://pubs.vmware.com/NSX-6/index.jsp

VMware Walkthrough for NSX: https://featurewalkthrough.vmware.com/t/nsx/ – If you are not familiar with the VMware Walkthroughs; this is essentially a guided tour of the products and features.

VMware Hands-on Labs for NSX:
https://www.vmware.com/products/nsx/nsx-hol.html

HOL-1803-01-NET – VMware NSX Introduction: https://www.vmware.com/go/try-nsx-en
HOL-1825-01-NET – VMware NSX Advanced:https://www.vmware.com/go/try-nsx-adv-hol
HOL-1803-02-NET – VMware NSX Distributed Firewall with Micro-segmentation:
https://www.vmware.com/try-vmware/nsx-micro-hol-labs.html
HOL-1803-03-NET – VMware NSX – Operations and Visibility: http://labs.hol.vmware.com/HOL/catalogs/lab/3663
HOL-1826-01-NET – VMware NSX-T – Getting Started:http://labs.hol.vmware.com/HOL/catalogs/lab/3671

 

VMware Support Knowledge Base NSX: https://kb.vmware.com/s/topic/0TO34000000PvxIGAS/nsx

VMware Support Knowledge Base Trending NSX topics: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2131154

VMware Support Monthly NSX Customer Advisory: https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2149616

VMware Support KB Article – Network port requirements for VMware NSX for vSphere 6.x (2079386): https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2079386

VMware Education: VMware NSX Training and Certification

Pluralsight Video Training: VMware NSX for vSphere Introduction and Installation by Jason Nash

Technical Papers:
VMware NSX Network Virtualization Platform Whitepaper: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/products/nsx/VMware-NSX-Network-Virtualization-Platform-WP.pdf
VMware® NSX for vSphere (NSX-V) Network Virtualization Design Guide: https://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-27683 – This design guide has recently been updated. Check this link and download the latest version.

NSX-T Reference Design Guide: https://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-37591 – This design guide has recently been updated. Check this link and download the latest version.

VMware NSX YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/vmwarensx

VMware NSX on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vmwarensx

VMware NSX Community: https://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/nsx

Blogs:
VMware’s Network Virtualization Blog: http://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization
Network Heresy: http://networkheresy.com/ – This is the Who’s Who for network virtualization – Check out contributors!
Chris Wahl’s Wahlnetwork blog: http://wahlnetwork.com/tag/nsx/
DailyHypervisor: http://dailyhypervisor.com/ – Complete SDDC and integration!
Route to Cloud: http://www.routetocloud.com/
NSX Tech: http://nsxtech.net/
Virtualization Warrior: http://www.m80arm.co.uk/

I am certain there are many more blogs/links for NSX. If you have a favorite that I haven’t included, leave a comment and I will add them.