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: NSX-T Federation Lab
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: 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 […]