Summary
NSX is a very powerful network virtualization platform that allows the users to spin up large scale complex networks within seconds. For new users, the inventory-based interface that NSX exposes might be a little overwhelming. To ease the network creation process and the workloads’ attachment to such networks we present ‘Autopology’ – a graphical interface aimed to complement NSX and simplify workflows for customers and people stepping into the realm of virtual networking.
What Autopology Offers
- Drag and drop interface to create logical networks so that the customers can design topologies tuned to their environments
- Single click replication of sections of topologies
- Ability to view the drawn network for future reference
- Ability to easily navigate to NSX Manager interface to further customize the logical entities as and when needed
- Ability to attach multiple VMs to logical entities. VMs could be residing on ESX or KVM hypervisors
Benefits
- One cohesive view to design logical networks as opposed to filling out tedious forms across multiple views
- Intelligent defaults help bypass advanced configuration for network objects
- Rapid scaling of logical networks
- Inventory of workloads across multiple hypervisors
- Combine compute and network in a single view

Requirements
VMWare Products
- NSX-T 1.x or higher Download NSX
Autopology Server
Ubuntu 16.04 with the following packages installed:
- apt-get install python-pip
- apt-get install python-libvirt
- apt-get install libssl-dev
- apt-get install python-dev
- apt-get install libffi-dev
Autopology Web Interface
Instructions
- Download the autopology-1.0.20170421-py2-none-any.whl package from this page on the Ubuntu 16.04 machine
- Install the package on Ubuntu 16.04 machine using the command:
pip install autopology-1.0.20170427-py2-none-any.whl l
- Start Autopology Server using the command:
autopology.server
- Follow the prompts to complete server startup
- Post install, use the Autopology Web Interface URL, typically, https://<Ubuntu machine ip>:<port number> to design and deploy NSX topologies.
For detailed instructions, please refer to the Autopology Installation & Quick Start Guide.
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