Hello and welcome.
My name is Keith Barker.
And if somebody came up to us and said,
"Hey, regarding your ESXI host
and all their compute resources,
how do you manage all of them?"
We would simply say,
"We use a centralized control system called vCenter
to work with and manage all those ESXI hosts."
And that's a very common paradigm
in controller based networking.
You and I, we connect to
or interact with the management device.
In the case of vSphere, it is the vCenter.
And then, the vCenter interacts
and communicates with all of the ESXI hosts. WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
and communicates with all of the ESXI hosts.
Now, why do I mention that?
Well, I mentioned that because that is
the same exact paradigm that we're gonna use
when we're working with NSX.
If somebody asks us,
"Hey, what are you using to manage
and control all of your NSX devices?"
We would say,
"We use a centralized management system
called the NSX Manager."
So just like the vCenter is responsible for the management
of our ESXI host,
the NSX manager is responsible
for the management, and implementation, and configuration,
and also the control plane of our NSX nodes. WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
and also the control plane of our NSX nodes.
Now, the one rub is
that it's not possible to use NSX Manager
unless it's running somewhere. (chuckles)
Now that somewhere in our environment
is gonna be running as a VM on one of our ESXI hosts.
So in this skill, you and I
get to walk through the planning,
implementation, and verification
of an NSX manager and for fault tolerance.
We don't want to just have one of them,
we wanna have a few of them
inside of an NSX management cluster.
So I'll see you, my friend, in the very next video
as we put a game plan together for our implementation WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
as we put a game plan together for our implementation
of our NSX managers.