Deploying VMware NSX in your Home Wokstation
NOTE: You need a PC running with atleast 32GB of RAM which can be divided into following
Things required are
1.VMware Workstation 15.0 or above.
2.Windows server 2012 R2 used as DNS and AD server in it (2GB RAM enough)
3.vCenter Server installed in Vmware workstation directly with minimum 10GB RAM, Total Processors cores=2
4.ESXi Host1 installed in VMware Workstation directly with 16GB RAM and total Processors cores=12
5.ESXi Host2 installed in VMware Workstation directly with 6GB RAM and total Processors cores=2
6.NSX Manager will be installed in ESXi Host 1 with 4GB RAM while deploying .ova.
7.NSX Controller will also be installed in ESXi Host1 with 2.5GB RAM.
8.For testing purposes you can install Windows O.S or Linux O.S in both ESXi Host1 and Host2
Things required are
1.VMware Workstation 15.0 or above.
2.Windows server 2012 R2 used as DNS and AD server in it (2GB RAM enough)
3.vCenter Server installed in Vmware workstation directly with minimum 10GB RAM, Total Processors cores=2
4.ESXi Host1 installed in VMware Workstation directly with 16GB RAM and total Processors cores=12
5.ESXi Host2 installed in VMware Workstation directly with 6GB RAM and total Processors cores=2
6.NSX Manager will be installed in ESXi Host 1 with 4GB RAM while deploying .ova.
7.NSX Controller will also be installed in ESXi Host1 with 2.5GB RAM.
8.For testing purposes you can install Windows O.S or Linux O.S in both ESXi Host1 and Host2
Once above servers are installed then its time to install NSX Manager and NSX Controller.
Deploy VMware-NSX-Manager-6.4.5-13282012.ova in ESXi Host1. After which install NSX controller.
If you have license you can download directly from VMware site.
++Windows 2012 R2 is used as a storage device. Create a storage space of 100GB in the server. Create a iSCSI interface at ESXI Host1 and ESXi Host2 , copy paste iqn name in both server and ESXi host, make sure there is connectivity between Windows server 2012 R2 and ESXi hosts.
This Storage is mainly used because we are both ESXi Hosts in a Cluster.
++Login to NSX Manager and Provide vSphere Server Address, make sure the hostname is resolvable.
In our Next document we will see how to install NSX Edge and deploying Logical switches with communication between two different Layer 3 subnets.
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