Intro One of the cool features that came with the new version of NSX-T Federation is the ability to import existing objects and policies into the Global Manager and thus change them from Local objects to Global objects which means they are then managed and configured from the Global NSX-T manager. This saves time as […]
Month: December 2020
NSX-T Configuring Backups
Intro Setting up the backup of the NSX-T managers is a fairly simple process and is done via the web UI. what can’t be managed from the UI is the retention period of the backups that has to be done via a script on the SFTP server otherwise the backup server will eventually run out […]
NSX-T Syslog Configuration
Intro Unfortunately unlike NSX-V, NSX-T does not have a simple GUI configuration for syslog instead each component needs to be manually configured and that includes the hosts. Having said that the configuration is pretty simple and I’ll run through how to setup the Managers, Edge nodes and ESXi hosts with a simple Syslog configuration. NSX-T […]
NSX-T LDAP Configuration
Intro Prior to NSX-T 3.0 in order to authenticate users via LDAP you needed to deploy a vIDM (Vmware Identity Manager) appliance. Now however you now longer need the appliance you can instead setup LDAP directly in the NSX-T GUI and thats what this post is all about. For this I am going to use […]
NSX-T FQDN Registration
Intro Transport nodes talk to the NSX-T managers via IP by default, this is fine in a single site deployment however for a multisite build it is required to have the transport nodes communicate with the NSX-T managers via the FQDN. This is because the failover process requires a manual restore of the managers to […]
NSX-T Local Accounts and Password Expiration
Intro By default NSX-T passwords have a 90 day expiration that applies to the NSX-T managers as well as the Edge nodes.This is something a lot of people are not aware of and often when logging in especially to the Edge nodes you get a password expiry message. Password expired The message alters slightly depending […]