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 […]
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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 […]
NSX-T Lab: IP Pool’s
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 […]
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 […]