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 […]
Category: NSX-T Lab build guide
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 […]
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 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 […]
NSX-T Lab: 2.5 – 3.0 Upgrade
Intro With the recent release of NSX-T 3.0 its time to upgrade my lab.In this article I’ll be upgrading my existing lab setup to version 3.0. In a later article it is likely that I will be covering the rebuild of the lab to make use of the new feature which is likely to become […]
NSX-T Lab: 2.4 – 2.5 Upgrade
Intro Welcome to Part 17 of the NSX-T Lab Series. This is somewhat of a bonus post as I’ve already completed the NSX-T Lab build series but since I now need to upgrade to 2.5 it makes sense to just add it as part of the original series.This is an in place upgrade from 2.4 to […]
NSX-T Lab: Tier 0 Gateway
Intro Welcome to Part 16 of the NSX-T Lab Series. In the previous post, we configured our Tier 1 Gateway.In this post we will setup our Tier 0 Gateway and configure dynamic routing to the physical network and link our Tier 1 Gateway to our Tier 0 Gateway so the test app can be accessed from the […]