NSX-T Syslog Configuration

Intro Unfortunately unlike NSX-V, NSX-T does not have a simple GUI configuration for syslog instead each component needs to be manually configured and that includes the hosts. Having said that the configuration is pretty simple and I’ll run through how to setup the Managers, Edge nodes and ESXi hosts with a simple Syslog configuration. NSX-T […]

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NSX-T Local Accounts and Password Expiration

Intro By default NSX-T passwords have a 90 day expiration that applies to the NSX-T managers as well as the Edge nodes.This is something a lot of people are not aware of and often when logging in especially to the Edge nodes you get a password expiry message. Password expired The message alters slightly depending […]

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NSX-T 3.1 is now GA

Intro NSX-T 3.1 is now GA and it’s a pretty big update and brings in the much anticipated standby Global Manager and with it the production ready support so I expect to be busy designing and building more customer solutions using Federation in the upcoming months. For the full release notes go to https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-NSX-T-Data-Center/3.1/rn/VMware-NSX-T-Data-Center-31-Release-Notes.html What’s […]

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NSX-T 3.0 Lab: Federation Tier-1

Welcome to Part 6 of the NSX-T 3.0 Lab Federation Series.In my Last Post I Setup the stretched Tier-0 gateway.In this post we will be deploying our stretched Tier-1 Gateway and connecting our test VM’s to the stretched segments. In our lab setup diagram we are going to configure the blue section downwards. From the Tier-1 perspective we […]

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NSX-T 3.0 Lab: Federation Tier-0

Welcome to Part 5 of the NSX-T 3.0 Lab Federation Series.In my Last Post I Setup the RTEPs on the Edge clusters ready for the Federation networking configuration.In this post we will be deploying our shared Tier-0 Gateway. In our lab setup diagram we are going to configure the orange section and peer with our Lab Routers. From […]

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