The Vision for the Future of Network Virtualization with VMware NSX
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This presentation recaps some announcements and demonstrations made at VMworld 2015 regarding new features and new functionality tentatively anticipated for future versions of VMware NSX.
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The Vision for the Future of Network Virtualization with VMware NSX
- 1. © 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved. The Vision for the Future of Network Virtualization with VMware NSX Scott Lowe
- 2. Agenda • Who is this guy? • Network virtualization with VMware NSX: the story so far • Where do we go from here? • Questions and answers
- 3. Who is this guy? • Engineering Architect in VMware’s Network & Security Business Unit (NSBU) • Author (7 books so far) • Blogger (10 years at http://blog.scottlowe.org) • Speaker (VMworld, Interop, VMUG events worldwide) • All-around geek 3
- 4. Network virtualization with VMware NSX The story so far
- 5. NSX customer and business momentum organizations have invested $1M+ in NSX 65+ NSX Customers 700+ production deployments (adding 25-50 per quarter) 100+
- 6. Networking is a software industry
- 7. NSX in open source environments organizations contributing to Open vSwitch 60 of NSX production deployments use OpenStack 20% KVM VMs in a single NSX deployment 100k+
- 8. Virtual Machines Physical Network Infrastructure Internet Network virtualization with VMware NSX today Virtual machines Physical network infrastructure Internet Virtual infrastructure Application demands • Many different applications • Different compliance and security needs • Frequent change Hardware complexity • Multiple vendors • Different architectures • Multiple locations NSX network virtualization • Speed and automation • Agility • Security and policy
- 9. Major NSX use cases Intra-Datacenter Micro-Segmentation DMZ Anywhere Secure User Environments Security IT Automating IT Developer Clouds Multi-tenant Infrastructure Agility Disaster Recovery Metro Pooling Hybrid Cloud Networking Application Continuity
- 10. Where do we go from here?
- 11. Physical networks and bare- metal workloads
- 12. Overlay-to-VLAN gateway functionality • Overlays allow NSX to decouple logical networks from the physical network • The overlay-to-VLAN gateway allows communication between logical and physical networks Physical Network, VLAN-backed segments VM NSX Logical Network, VXLAN/STT/Geneve tunnels VXLAN ßà VLAN gateway Physical Workload
- 13. Overlay-to-VLAN gateway form factors VXLAN/STT/ Geneve VLAN x86-based bridge Physical Workloads VXLAN VLAN Physical Workloads Leverages x86 server Highest density and throughput with partner HW HW VTEP
- 15. Why distributed network services? 15 Scale out of network services Apply services at the vNIC for very granular control Unprecedented visibility
- 16. NSX vswitch Tech preview: Distributed load balancing 16 Web Tier App Servers Database Load Balancer Load Balancer Physical ViewLogical View NSX vswitch
- 17. Containers
- 18. Container networking today 18 InternalApp InternalApp Website Website Website Website Internet Database Port 80 Internal network
- 19. Tech preview: Containers with VMware NSX 19 Website Website Website Website Internet Internal network Physical network infrastructure InternalApp InternalApp Database Datacenter HONEY POT VULNERABILITY SCANNER Micro- segmentation Alert Connection to data center NSX provides segmentation, visibility, and integration
- 20. Micro- segmentation Alert Connection to data center Benefits of NSX and containers 20 Micro- segmentation Alert Connection to data center • Micro-segmentation to establish clear boundaries • Stop compromises at container or application level • Central visibility into connectivity across the data center • Per-flow tracking • Alerts for suspicious behavior • Virtual taps at a per- container level • Integration with the rest of your IT infrastructure • Monitoring, incident response, forensics • Access to databases, backup, system updates
- 21. Public clouds
- 22. Power of cloud: workload mobility
- 24. Cloud: just new silos? Storage service Load balancing service Firewall service Storage service Load balancing service Firewall service Storage service Load balancing service Firewall service
- 25. NSX Tech preview: VMware NSX on public clouds Storage service Load balancing service Firewall service Storage service Load balancing service Firewall service Storage service Load balancing service Firewall service
- 26. NSX tomorrow: virtual networking for all platforms Physical network Hyper-‐V Virtual infrastructure
- 27. NSX tomorrow: virtual networking for all platforms 27 Speed Provision connectivity for any endpoint across different domains. Agility Automate provisioning via templates and rich APIs. Security Consistent security posture and visibility across all types of endpoints. On-premise data center Third-generation apps Public clouds Virtual desktop Mobile devices Hyper-‐V
- 28. 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 28
- 30. Thank You! Scott Lowe slowe@vmware.com Twitter: @scott_lowe Blog: http://blog.scottlowe.org GitHub: https://github.com/lowescott