Intro Welcome to Part 15 of the NSX-T Lab Series. In the previous post, we discussed logical routing in NSX-T.In this post we will setup our Tier 1 Gateway and add our segments to it to get the Layer 3 routing working so our test app VMs can start talking to each other. The diagram below shows […]
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NSX-T Lab: Logical Routers / Gateways
Intro Welcome to Part 14 of the NSX-T Lab Series. In the previous post, we configured our Edge cluster.In this post we briefly discuss Logical Routers / Gateways before we setup our Tier-1 and Tier-0 Gateways. First off my apologies for the delay in getting these posts up, life and work are taking up a lot of […]
NSX-T Lab: Edge Cluster
Intro Welcome to Part 13 of the NSX-T Lab Series. In the previous post, we deployed our second edge node via an OVA deployment. This post should be really small as we now add our two Edge nodes to an Edge cluster. What is an Edge cluster? Basically an Edge cluster is a group of Edge transport nodes […]
NSX-T Lab: Edge Node OVA Deployment
Intro Welcome to Part 12 of the NSX-T Lab Series. In the previous post, we deployed our first edge node via the NSX Manager web UI. This post should really be part 11b since it’s covering the same process just in a different way this time via an OVA deployment. So why do it this way? The VMware […]
NSX-T Lab: Edge Node
Intro Welcome to Part 11 of the NSX-T Lab Series. In the previous post, we set up our network segments and attached our VM’s to the networks. We successfully pinged within each Layer 2 network.We could now go ahead and deploy a Tier 1 logical router and connect those segments to it to get layer 3 connectivity […]
NSX-T Lab: Segments
Intro Welcome to Part 10 of the NSX-T Lab Series. In the previous post, we finally installed NSX-T on our compute host cluster.Before we deploy the Edge nodes we will create our Segments/Logical Switches. Why do you keep saying Segments/Logical Switches? So a Logical switch is an NSX-V and early NSX-T name for the VXLAN/Geneve VLAN that […]
NSX-T Lab: Host Transport Nodes
Intro Welcome to Part 9 of the NSX-T Lab Series. In the previous post, we configured a Host Transport Node Profile ready for use in configuring NSX-T on our compute cluster.In this post we’ll use that profile to make our lives easier but I will also cover configuring a host as a standalone. Lab guide stage comparison. […]
NSX-T Lab: Transport Node Profile
Intro Welcome to Part 8 of the NSX-T Lab Series. In the previous post, we created the uplink profile for our compute nodes, so now we can start building our Transport nodes.So why is step 8 a profile and step 9 configuring the transport node? Well let me explain. What is a Transport Node Profile and why do […]
NSX-T Lab: Custom Uplink Profile
Intro Welcome to Part 7 of the NSX-T Lab Series. In the previous post, we created our Transport Zones, adding two VLAN TZ’s and one Overlay TZ. It’s a bit horse before the cart situation, since I already knew how I was going to configure the Uplink profile and the Edge node connectivity so I know I […]
NSX-T Lab: Transport Zones
Intro Welcome to Part 6 of the NSX-T Lab Series. In the previous post, we covered creating an IP Pool.In this post we’ll cover the creation of Transport zones. So what is a Transport Zone then? A transport zone defines the span of a logical network and therefore the reach of transport nodes. It is not a […]