From the course: Network Virtualization: SDN Overlay Solutions
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VMware NSX book and free labs
From the course: Network Virtualization: SDN Overlay Solutions
VMware NSX book and free labs
- [Instructor] Now the other big product that you'd probably be interested in learning is VMware NSX. Just do a search in Google, as an example, for VMware NSX and on this page you can, as an example, download a free Dummies guide to network virtualization. This provides a good overview of virtualized networks. They talk about the evolution of networking and the rise of the software-defined data center. They explain how the compute world was virtualized. Some of the words we now virtualize PCs all the time in VMware. And through NSX we can now virtualize the network, as well. I've already explained a lot of the theory with regards to virtualized networks. But this provides a lot of good reference material and reading material and it's well worth your time going through this to learn how to create a virtual network between hypervisors running across an existing physical network. They also explain the difference between a virtual network and a VLAN. VXLANs as an example supports…
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