Intro Welcome to Part 2 of the NSX-T 3.0 Lab Federation Series.In the previous post, we covered the basic lab setup, in this post we will be deploying our Global Manager. With the release of NSX-T 3.0 one of the major additions was NSX Federation giving us true Multisite deployment capabilities. In this post I’ll be deploying […]
NSX-T 3.0 Lab Federation: Lab Setup
Intro Welcome to Part 1 of the NSX-T 3.0 Lab Federation Series. In the previous post, we covered the introduction to the NSX-T 3.0 lab Federation series.In this post I’ll cover the basics of how my lab is set up and the overall configruation we will end up with. Physical Environment Hosts I have three physical hosts, […]
NSX-T Lab 3.0 Federation Series
I thought it wise to create a new series for the NSX-T 3.0 Federation configuration so that it doesn’t get lost in the general lab guides.Since the configuration of Federation and it’s components differs slightly from the single site setup it only makes sense to split it. I’ll be configuring NSX-T 3.0 Federation from the […]
NSX-T 3.0 Multisite vs Federation
Intro One of the most deployed features in my experience with NSX-V was Cross vCenter NSX, which allows a multisite deployment. To reduce the cost of licensing and for automated failover you can instead deploy a stretched cluster thus only requiring a single vCenter and NSX license but with the added cost of a stretched […]
NSX-T 3.0 Upgrade Enabled URPF
Intro So I noticed that after upgrading my NSX-T lab to version 3.0 that the system had re-enabled URPF on my Edge uplinks, since they are running in ECMP mode this is not a desirable configuration. I don’t know why it decided to revert the setting but it did so I’ll need to change it […]
NSX-T Lab: 2.5 – 3.0 Upgrade
Intro With the recent release of NSX-T 3.0 its time to upgrade my lab.In this article I’ll be upgrading my existing lab setup to version 3.0. In a later article it is likely that I will be covering the rebuild of the lab to make use of the new feature which is likely to become […]
VMware NSX-T 3.0 – Whats New
NSX-T 3.0 was released a few days ago so I thought it best to post about just a few of the new features that are now available in this rather significant release.The full release notes can be found Here Federation NSX-T 3.0 introduces the ability to federate multiple on-premises data centers through a single pane […]
vExpert NSX 2020
I’m very proud to have earned the vExpert award for NSX 2020. This is my first vExpert award based on my work in this blog.Now the hard work begins again to get the award next year and who knows I may expand into the vExpert sub programs next time as well 🙂
NSX-T Lab: 2.4 – 2.5 Upgrade
Intro Welcome to Part 17 of the NSX-T Lab Series. This is somewhat of a bonus post as I’ve already completed the NSX-T Lab build series but since I now need to upgrade to 2.5 it makes sense to just add it as part of the original series.This is an in place upgrade from 2.4 to […]
ESXi Host Patching 6.7 to 6.7 U3
Intro I’ve updated my Lab vCenters to 6.7 U3a so now its time to upgrade my hosts. Normally when I do an upgrade I’m doing full version upgrades so a patch upgrade process blog is in order.My lab vCenters do not have access to the internet, as a result I cannot download the patches directly […]