So to begin with, let's take a look at this document from VMware called Deploy
ing and
managing the VMware NSX application platform.
I just want to give you a peek at some of the prerequisites.
So if we jump over to prerequisites here, we have versioning issues that we
need to
be aware of once we get to that point.
If we continue to scroll down here, we have licenses that are required and a
great way
to get the licenses in a lab environment is to simply use VMUG Advantage.
If you join that for like $200 a year, they'll give you EVAL license for many
of the VMware WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
of the VMware
products including NSX.
If we continue to scroll down, we need a Kubernetes cluster.
Again, once again, we can use the automation tool to assist us in deploying
that.
Once we have the network in place, there's a requirement for internet access to
download
some content from VMware and also as you scroll down some requirements for
fully qualified
domain names.
Specifically two of them that we're going to need, we're also going to need
some IP address
spaces to play with and ranges of addresses in the IP address spaces that we
can use and
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then making sure from a firewall perspective that we're permitting that
protocols and ports
needed between all the devices involved as part of the NSX application platform
.
And as we continue to scroll down, it talks about system requirements and there
's also
an option to deploy the NSX application appliance using an EVAL mode that is
going to not have
to require all the individual VMs and resources that you'd want in a production
environment.
So all of this is going to be applicable at the point where we're going to go
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implement the Kubernetes cluster and then the NSX application platform on top
of that.
So here it's referring to the evaluation form factor which in a lab environment
you can
get away with but again in a production environment, you'd want to not use that
.
You'd want to use all the resources required including reserving resources for
the VMs
involved.
Also as part of deploying the NSX application platform, there is a load bal
ancer that's going
to be deployed in conjunction with the Kubernetes cluster.
As we continue to scroll down, we're going to be using the Docker images and
Helm charts
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from a public repository from VMware.
So we'll need to make sure we have internet access.
And then after all those prereqs we've looked at, it's then getting to the
point where
we can deploy the NSX application platform on top of our Kubernetes environment
.
So the reason I'm talking about these prerequisites on the front end is because
if we don't have
a network on the back end that's prepared to support that environment, it is
going to
fail.
So in the next video, here's what I propose we do.
Let's spend a few moments together and lay out a topology and what we plan to
use for
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things like internet access, DNS, which VLANs we're going to be using as part
of our game
plan.
And then once we have that in place, we then proceed to implement that with a
combination
of VLANs on our physical network as well as vSphere with the appropriate poor
groups
and so forth to support it as well.
So also you my friend in the next video as we put a topology together as part
of our game
plan.