Hello and welcome. My name is Keith Barker.
And sometimes it makes sense to separate things.
An example might be something like you have a couple of kids that are fighting.
You know, at that moment, it might be good to go ahead and separate them
and keep them separate.
Or if you have like two different people from two different families,
they have their own stuff.
You might want to have separate storage for each of them.
You know, this person keeps all their stuff here
and the other person keeps all their stuff over there.
So you might ask, well, what does this got to do with NSX and networking within
the world of NSX?
And the answer is we may have more than just one customer. WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
And the answer is we may have more than just one customer.
For example, it may not just be us.
Maybe we're hosting services for multiple customers, also known as tenants.
So if we have customer one here and customer two here and customer three here,
they all may want to choose networks that they want to use.
For example, each of those customers may want to use the 10-10 network.
And if that's the case, we need to make sure we're keeping all those routes
separate.
So all the customer ones routes are kept in a bubble or a container
and all the routes for customer two are kept in a separate container.
And all the routes for customer three are yet kept in yet a separate container. WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
And all the routes for customer three are yet kept in yet a separate container.
Now, in the world of networking and routing,
these logical containers are referred to as a VRF.
And that VRF stands for virtual routing and forwarding.
That's the VRF portion of it.
And that's the concept that we can use inside of NSX
to create multiple VRFs, one for each customer.
And that way we can keep all their routes separate and unique to them.
And then another customer has their own VRF and their own routes and so forth
and so on.
And in the world of NSX, this is referred to as VRF light. WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
And in the world of NSX, this is referred to as VRF light.
Because although we are using the process of compartmentalizing certain groups
of routes,
we're not using it with some additional or other features such as MPLS, layer 3
VPNs,
or other types of services.
So the other day, the concept of VRF light in the world of NSX
is to keep one customer's route separate from another customer's routes.
And in this set of videos, you and I get to walk through the logic of how that
's implemented,
we'll put a game plan together.
And then what you and I get to do is walk through step by step the
implementation
and verification of VRF light in the world of NSX. WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
and verification of VRF light in the world of NSX.
So I'll see you my friend in the very next video.