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 […]
NSX-V Lab: Configure VXLAN
Intro Welcome to Part 8 of the NSX-V Lab Series. In the previous post, we prepared our hosts for NSX. In this post we will configure the VXLAN parameters and deploy our host VTEPs. What is VXLAN Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) is a networking technology designed to address the scalability issues with networks. Essentially it is a […]
NSX-T Lab: 2.4 Install, OVA Deployment of NSX-T Manager.
Intro Welcome to Part 2 of the NSX-T Lab Series. In the previous post, we covered my lab setup. In this post we’ll cover the deployment process for the NSX-T Manager appliance. What is the NSX Manager? NSX Manager is essentially where the users configure the NSX networking solution. it provides the management and control […]
NSX-V Lab: Host Preparation
Intro Welcome to Part 7 of the NSX-V Lab Series. In the previous post, we covered how to exclude VM’s from the Distributed Firewall. In this post we’ll cover the installation of NSX onto our hosts.The previous step was important especially if you are preparing the host where the vCenter runs since installing NSX deploys VIB’s for […]