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 […]
Category: Lab Guides
NSX-T 3.1 Lab: Federation Standby GM
Intro With the release of NSX-T 3.1 a few days ago there were several enhancements added to the product and one very big one. Standby Global Managers! With this addition Federation is now deemed to be production ready, the only thing really that is missing is the ability to maintain Security Tags when failing VM’s […]
NSX-T 3.0 Lab: Federation Tier-1
Welcome to Part 6 of the NSX-T 3.0 Lab Federation Series.In my Last Post I Setup the stretched Tier-0 gateway.In this post we will be deploying our stretched Tier-1 Gateway and connecting our test VM’s to the stretched segments. In our lab setup diagram we are going to configure the blue section downwards. From the Tier-1 perspective we […]
NSX-T 3.0 Lab: Federation Tier-0
Welcome to Part 5 of the NSX-T 3.0 Lab Federation Series.In my Last Post I Setup the RTEPs on the Edge clusters ready for the Federation networking configuration.In this post we will be deploying our shared Tier-0 Gateway. In our lab setup diagram we are going to configure the orange section and peer with our Lab Routers. From […]
NSX-T 3.0 Lab: Federation RTEP Configuration
Intro Welcome to Part 4 of the NSX-T 3.0 Lab Federation Series.In my Last Post I Setup the Global Manager and configured our Locations DCA and DCB. In this post we will be configuring the RTEP on our Edge clusters. What is an RTEP? Put simply an RTEP is a Remote Tunnel End Point.Just like the host and […]
NSX-T 3.0 Lab Single N-VDS Edge Nodes
Intro First off I apologize for the huge blog post, when I started writing this I didn’t think it would end up so long and splitting it into multiple parts just doesn’t seem right.When I deployed my Edge Nodes during my 2.4 lab build the recommended design approach was to deploy three N-VDS switches on […]
NSX-T 3.0 Lab: Changes to 3.0 Build
Intro If you followed my NSX-T 2.4 lab build guide series you’ll know I ran through a complete build of NSX-T on a single site including a Tier-0 and Tier-1 setup.Since I have now changed my lab to 3.0 I thought I’d make a post detailing the differences between building at version 3.0 vs 2.4 […]
NSX-T 3.0 Lab: Change from Micro Seg Only to Full Deployment
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 […]
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 […]