Hello and welcome. My name is Keith Barker.
And in a previous skill,
we went through the process of planning, deploying,
and verifying an NSX Manager.
However, up to this point,
that NSX Manager doesn't really have anything to manage.
There's no transport nodes anywhere in the network yet.
And that sort of like hiring a physical human,
like a manager at a company and having that manager come in
and when the manager says, "Okay, where's my people?
Who do I manage?"
We tell him, "Nothing. There's nobody to manage."
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It's kind of a waste of a resource at that point
to hire a manager if there's nothing to manage.
And that's very similar to our situation in vSphere
right now with NSX.
We deploy the NSX Manager. It's running as a VM.
However, at this moment,
there is nothing for it yet to manage.
And together, you and I, in this skill,
we are gonna solve that problem
by bringing into the fold a couple of ESXi hosts,
and we're gonna convert them or add on to them
the additional function of becoming a host transport node
inside the NSX environment.
So in preparation for that,
join me in the next video WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
join me in the next video
as we put a specific game plan together
regarding what we want to implement
and how we want it to look.
And then we'll follow that game plan for the implementation
and verification of a couple of ESXI hosts
that are brought into the fold of NSX
as host transport nodes.