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 […]

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NSX-T 3.1 Lab: Federation Object import

Intro One of the cool features that came with the new version of NSX-T Federation is the ability to import existing objects and policies into the Global Manager and thus change them from Local objects to Global objects which means they are then managed and configured from the Global NSX-T manager. This saves time as […]

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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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