Intro A couple of years ago I wrote this https://vdives.com/2020/12/28/nsx-t-syslog-configuration/ to cover the configuration of syslog on the NSX Managers and Edge Nodes as at the time there was no way to configure it within the UI. Instead it had to be done manually on each edge node and on the NSX Manager, while this […]
Quick Tips: NSX-T Login Window with a User Agreement Banner
Intro Sometimes customers have compliance requirements often in secure environments such as banks or defense systems etc as such along with other security measures it’s common for login banners and or consent forms to be used when logging into systems which is what this quick tip will cover. Login Message without Explicit Consent. Lets start […]
Quick Tips: NSX-T User Interface Settings
Intro I’ve mentioned this a couple of times in passing during other posts, I often see customers trying to find settings that are hidden in the Manager mode and they are unable to access them as their account is not setup to show both the Policy and Manager modes. VMware is moving away from Manager […]
Quick Tips: NSX-T SSH/Cli Timeout Manager and Edge
Intro So in the last post we set the web UI timeout value for the NSX-T manager, this covers the web interface but what about the ssh connections for that we need to adjust the cli-timeout value to check the current settings run get cli-timeout we can see that the default timer is set to […]
Quick Tips: NSX-T Manager Web-UI Timeout
Intro So I’ll be honest this is not something I’ve ever set for a customer, maybe they set it themselves after I leave the engagement maybe not. However it’s a handy feature especially if you’re working on a lab or security is not you major worry. Or on the flip side maybe security is a […]
NSX ALB Backup
Intro In this post I’ll cover how we setup backups for NSX ALB to be honest its pretty straight forward however there is no simple way to schedule the backups at specific times from the UI we will get to that in a bit. Pre-requisites To backup NSX ALB you’re obviously going to need a […]
NSX-T local login
Intro I’ve been meaning to put up this simple blog post for a while now as I run into this quite often and then find myself searching the web looking for the right URL to resolve it. Since the main purpose of my blog is as a reference tool for myself I figure it’s about […]
NSX-T 3.2.x sizing changed?
Has the sizing of the NSX-T managers changed in 3.2.x? A colleague of mine recently completed a dual site NSX-T deployment that required the addition of two vCenters to the single NSX-T manager cluster, in his case the VC’s were running one at each site however the same issue would occur for a single site […]
VMware NSX 4.0.1.1 Released
The latest release of NSX is now GA which is 4.0.1.1, lots of focus on DPU acceleration and enhancements A notable new feature I think is Stateful Active-Active Edge Services: this release introduces support for stateful services on Tier-0 and Tier-1 gateway in Active-Active HA mode. The following stateful services are supported: L4/L7 Gateway Firewall, URL […]
VMware NSX 4.0.0.1 released
VMware NSX 4.0.0.1 has now been release the product is now no longer called NSX-T but VMware NSX. Yes it says version 4.0.0.1 as to what happened to 4.0 we’ll never know 😀 This release seems to add a lot of IPv6 functionality. Interestingly it seems the Native Load Balancer has not yet been removed […]