In this chapter, we will be looking at some of the most common operations to manage our NSX environment. We will begin the chapter by looking at NSX Manager actions, including backing up and restoring your NSX environment, management settings including, setting up syslog servers, and setting up NSX with a Windows domain. We will also look at controller cluster actions, including changing its passwords, downloading tech support logs, and also setting up a syslog server. We will also look at checking the communication channel health for communications between NSX Manager and its associated components.

In this chapter, we will cover:

• NSX Manager settings
• Backup and restore
• NSX Manager domain registration
• Controller cluster actions
• Summary