Welcome to Part 5 of the NSX-V Lab Series. In the previous post, we covered how to license the NSX-V Manager appliance. In this post we’ll cover the deployment of the NSX controllers and how to adjust them for a lab environment.A quick disclaimer do not adjust the controller resources for a production installation, doing so is […]
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NSX-V Lab: License Configuration
Intro Welcome to Part 4 of the NSX-V Lab Series. In the previous post, we covered the NSX-V Manager appliance initial configuration. In this post we’ll cover how to license NSX so we can actually use it. In order to use NSX for anything other than for deploying and managing the vShield Endpoint for anti-virus offload capability […]
NSX-V Lab: Manager Initial Configuration
Intro Welcome to Part 3 of the NSX-V Lab Series. In the previous post, we covered the NSX-V Manager appliance deployment. In this post we’ll cover the initial configuration of that appliance. With the NSX-V manager powered on we need to connect to it’s web interface so open a browser and connect https://NSX-Manager.FQDN in my […]
NSX-V Lab: 6.4.5 Install, OVA Deployment of NSX-V Manager
Intro Welcome to Part 2 of the NSX-V Lab Series. In the previous post, we covered my lab setup. In this post we’ll cover the deployment process for the NSX-V Manager appliance.So lets get on with the Manager deployment. Firstly you must ensure that you have added the NSX-V manager to your DNS server with […]
NSX-V Lab Setup
Intro Welcome to Part 1 of the NSX-V Lab Series. In the previous post, we covered the introduction to the NSX-V 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-V Lab Install Series
Welcome to my NSX-V 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-V. 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 […]