Intro Welcome to Part 5 of the NSX-T Lab Series. In the previous post, we covered adding/removing additional NSX Managers and forming a cluster.In this post we’ll cover the creation of IP Pools for the host TEP’s. What is an IP Pool? As per the VMware documentation: Tunnel endpoints are the source and destination IP addresses used […]
Category: NSX-T Lab build guide

NSX-T Lab: Deploy Additional Manager and form a cluster
Intro Welcome to Part 4 of the NSX-T Lab Series. In the previous post, we covered adding the vCenter as a compute manager.In this post we’ll be adding an additional NSX-T manager to form a cluster and setting the VIP used for load balancing, and for good measure I’ll cover removing said cluster as well 🙂 Why […]

NSX-T Lab: Add Compute Manager
Intro Welcome to Part 3 of the NSX-T Lab Series. In the previous post, we covered the deployment of the NSX-T Manager OVA. In this post we’ll be covering adding the vCenter as a compute manager. What is a compute manager? NSX-T does not pair with vCenter in the same way that NSX-V does in fact NSX-T does […]

NSX-T Lab: 2.4 Install, OVA Deployment of NSX-T Manager.
Intro Welcome to Part 2 of the NSX-T Lab Series. In the previous post, we covered my lab setup. In this post we’ll cover the deployment process for the NSX-T Manager appliance. What is the NSX Manager? NSX Manager is essentially where the users configure the NSX networking solution. it provides the management and control […]

NSX-T Lab Setup
Intro Welcome to Part 1 of the NSX-T Lab Series. In the previous post, we covered the introduction to the NSX-T lab series.In this post we’ll cover briefly how my lab is setup from the physical to the virtual to the nested virtual. Physical Environment Hosts I have three physical hosts, these are Dell Poweredge T20 Servers […]
NSX-T Lab Install Series
Welcome to my NSX-T lab install and configure series. During this series of blogs I will detail how my lab is setup and a step by step guide on how to deploy NSX-T. I won’t go into too much detail on every component we’ll be deploying, I’ll keep that kind of detail for separate posts […]