Thakurratan R.S. - Learning VMware NSX

Ranjit Singh Thakurratan (RJ) is a VMware vExpert (2014 and 2015) and works as a VMware cloud solutions architect, specializing in architecting Enterprise cloud solutions. He works for Rackspacethe #1 managed cloud company and home of Fanatical Supportwhich is based out of San Antonio, Texas.

RJ holds a master's degree in information technologyinfrastructure assurance, an engineering degree in computer science, and has over ten years of hands-on IT experience. He has presented at numerous VMUG UserCon conferences held at Boston, Washington DC, New York, Denver, and Dallas. He also runs a technology blog, www.rjapproves.com, and can be reached via his Twitter handle@RJAPPROVES. Apart from technology, RJ is also interested in astrophysics, animal welfare, and open source projects.

One of his favorite quotes is:

I would like to thank my parents, Jagat Singh and Thakur Sindhu Kumari, for making me the man I am today, and my brother, Manjit Singh, for being supportive all along. Lastly, to my lovely dog, Shyla Singh, who loves selflessly and has kept me on the move.

Jonathan Frappier is a technology professional focused on working with organizations to understand business operations and requirements and then design, transform, and support technology solutions and teams that leverage modern trends in virtualization, cloud computing, DevOps, and social enterprise collaboration.

He works on a wide range of technology, from firewalls and switches to Windows, Active Directory, Exchange, VMware vSphere, storage, backups, disaster recovery, and support custom-developed software, in both large and small companies where technology is heavily relied upon.

I would like to thank my parents and grandparents, my wife and daughter, and the amazing virtualization community for everything you do every daywithout you, opportunities like this would not exist.

Anthony Spiteri has been working as a hosting and cloud professional since 2002, and in that time, he has been privileged to work at some of the leading service providers in Australia. Anthony has developed a true passion for his work and has worked on products and services that deliver high quality results through leading edge technologies. As a lead architect at ZettaGrid, he has helped push the boundaries of virtualization and cloud by leading product development and looking into doing great things with a great technology.

As a VMware vExpert and vChampion, Anthony has been able to build on his community work by delivering talks and presentations at various events locally and overseas. He runs the Virtualization is Life! blog at http://anthonyspiteri.net, and he is a contributor to Planet V12n, OneCloud Road, and AussievMafia. He has gained high levels of technical praise for his posts and comments on all things hosting- and cloud-related.

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Preface

Networking is the most critical component of any IT architecture. Architects always want to lay the right foundations of networks and solve networking issues before the computation and storage is looked at. This is why I have always felt the need to have a better understanding of networking and how things work.

Network virtualization technology allowed me to have a behind-the-scenes, hands-on look at how networking works and the concepts that made it happen. The ability to deploy virtual appliances such as switches, load balancers, and routers and examine their functionality was very appealing. The pace at which I learned network virtualization (NSX) gave me the confidence to grow in a field in which I thought I lacked significant knowledge. Through my journey, I understood that network virtualization not only made me think like a network engineer, but also made me apply networking concepts very creatively to a virtualized environment, and this made it all the more appealing. What was complex before, now became extremely simple.