Intro In my previous posts I configured a host cluster as a Micro Seg only deployment using the Wizard and Manually, in this post I’ll detail how we can change the deployment to a full NSX deployment.Whether you deployed manually or used the wizard the system configuration comes from the Transport Node Profile that is […]
Month: May 2020
NSX-T 3.0 Lab: Host Transport Node Full Deployment Wizard
I’ve covered deploying a Micro Seg only deployment in the last couple of posts so I figured I should show how to do a Full NSX host preparation deployment also using the wizard. A thing to note is that if you have already deployed NSX to a cluster using the Micro Seg deployment the wizard […]
NSX-T 3.0 Lab: Micro Seg Only Deployment Manually
Intro So in my Last Post I deployed an NSX Micro Seg only deployment to my compute cluster, in this post I’ll cover how we can do the same thing without using the wizard. Wizard Generated Profiles If I have already deployed one cluster then I can use the Transport Node Profile that was created […]
NSX-T 3.0 Lab: Micro Seg Only Deployment Wizard
Intro One of the most common use cases for introducing NSX is Micro Segmentation, the ability to secure network traffic flows between VM’s and also from VM’s to physical machines and infrastructure.I see this alot in my day to day job as an NSX consultant, I would say that 60-70 % of projects start off […]
NSX-T 3.0 Lab: Global Manager & Locations Setup
Intro Welcome to Part 3 of the NSX-T 3.0 Lab Federation Series.In my Last Post I deployed a new NSX Manager appliance configured as the Global Manager to allow me to setup NSX-T Federation, in this post I’ll do the initial configuration and add in my two locations of DCA and DCB. The Build First up […]
NSX-T 3.0 Lab: Global Manager OVA Deployment-Federation
Intro Welcome to Part 2 of the NSX-T 3.0 Lab Federation Series.In the previous post, we covered the basic lab setup, in this post we will be deploying our Global Manager. With the release of NSX-T 3.0 one of the major additions was NSX Federation giving us true Multisite deployment capabilities. In this post I’ll be deploying […]
NSX-T 3.0 Lab Federation: Lab Setup
Intro Welcome to Part 1 of the NSX-T 3.0 Lab Federation Series. In the previous post, we covered the introduction to the NSX-T 3.0 lab Federation series.In this post I’ll cover the basics of how my lab is set up and the overall configruation we will end up with. Physical Environment Hosts I have three physical hosts, […]
NSX-T Lab 3.0 Federation Series
I thought it wise to create a new series for the NSX-T 3.0 Federation configuration so that it doesn’t get lost in the general lab guides.Since the configuration of Federation and it’s components differs slightly from the single site setup it only makes sense to split it. I’ll be configuring NSX-T 3.0 Federation from the […]
NSX-T 3.0 Multisite vs Federation
Intro One of the most deployed features in my experience with NSX-V was Cross vCenter NSX, which allows a multisite deployment. To reduce the cost of licensing and for automated failover you can instead deploy a stretched cluster thus only requiring a single vCenter and NSX license but with the added cost of a stretched […]
NSX-T 3.0 Upgrade Enabled URPF
Intro So I noticed that after upgrading my NSX-T lab to version 3.0 that the system had re-enabled URPF on my Edge uplinks, since they are running in ECMP mode this is not a desirable configuration. I don’t know why it decided to revert the setting but it did so I’ll need to change it […]