Intro NSX-T Layer 2 bridging allows us to connect or ‘Bridge’ a VLAN backed port group or device to an NSX-T Overlay network. Why would we want to do this? Well its a common use case for migrating workloads into NSX-T Overlay networks or to provide connectivity between physical servers and Overlay backed VM’s while […]
Category: VMware NSX
NSX-T 3.2 is now GA
NSX-T is now available and its a massive release so lots of blogging opportunities await! For the full release notes go HERE. Below is an extract of whats new 🙂 What’s New NSX-T Data Center 3.2.0 is a major release offering many new features in all the verticals of NSX-T: networking, security, services and onboarding. […]
Coming soon NSX-T 3.2…..
Just a couple of recently release articles on the upcoming NSX-T 3.2 should be GA anytime soon with some really cool new features and finally Federation can maintain Security tags!! VMware NSX 3.2 Delivers New, Advanced Security Capabilities Announcing NSX-T 3.2: Innovations in Multi-Cloud Security, Networking, and Operations
NSX-T Multisite Options Part 2
Intro Welcome to part two of the NSX-T multisite options, in part one we covered the original two ways to do multisite both manual and automated and also covered the HA method is this post I’ll cover how we set Up The HA Multisite. To read part one go here. The Build Lets get on […]
NSX-T Multisite Options Part 1
Intro I’ve previously made a post which as it turns out is a pretty popular one being the most read post on my blog and thats the Multisite vs Federation post. The content is still very relevant however there is another way to do Multisite that as it turns out is pretty obvious but not […]
NSX-T T0 VRF Lite / Gateway
Intro Introduced in NSX-T 3.0 is VRF lite also known as VRF Gateway, VRF or Virtual Routing and Forwarding allows multiple instances of routing tables to exist within the same gateway at the same time. Essentially this gives us a multi tenant routing solution using a single parent T0 gateway. As a result we can […]
NSX-T with vCenter
Just a really quick post about a feature thats due to come out soon likely when NSX-T 3.2 drops. I recently updated my vCenter to the latest release 7.0.3 with it you will see a new feature in the shortcuts menu. Thats right NSX from inside the vCenter, if we click the shortcut we get […]
NSX-T Edge deployment fails, OVF certificate validation failed.
Intro I thought I’d already written a blog post about this issue but it seems not so here it is :). I’ve had this issue a few times on my lab as the NSX-T managers are always getting powered up and down and as such not all the services are running when I want to […]
AVI/ALB Lab: vCenter and NSX-T Permissions
Intro Welcome to Part 2 of the NSX-T AVI/ALB Lab In the previous post, we covered the architecture of AviIn this post we’ll cover the required vCenter and NSX-T Permissions and users. Overview Rather than using the generic vSphere or NSX-T admin accounts for permissions for Avi which would work, it’s best practise to configure service […]
NSX-T 3.1.1 Released
NSX-T release 3.1.1 was made GA on the 27th January 2021 among other things the most anticipated feature is OSPF v2 between the Tier-0 gateways and the physical network. This feature is something that a lot of customers have been waiting for since most customers run OSPF internally.Unfortunately there is no Federation support for OSPF […]