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 […]
Category: Lab Guides
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 […]
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 […]