Intro In this post I’ll cover how we setup backups for NSX ALB to be honest its pretty straight forward however there is no simple way to schedule the backups at specific times from the UI we will get to that in a bit. Pre-requisites To backup NSX ALB you’re obviously going to need a […]
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VMware NSX 4.0.1.1 Released
The latest release of NSX is now GA which is 4.0.1.1, lots of focus on DPU acceleration and enhancements A notable new feature I think is Stateful Active-Active Edge Services: this release introduces support for stateful services on Tier-0 and Tier-1 gateway in Active-Active HA mode. The following stateful services are supported: L4/L7 Gateway Firewall, URL […]
AVI/ALB GSLB Lab: Final Testing
Intro Welcome to Part 6 of the AVI/ALB GSLB Lab In the previous post, we configured our DNS Delegation.We are ready to test GSLB and hope it works as expected! Testing Load balancing across both sites. First off lets load the website web.avi.lab.local, I’m running a chrome extension called Website IP which will show the IP of the site […]
AVI/ALB GSLB Lab: MS DNS Delegation
Intro Welcome to Part 5 of the AVI/ALB GSLB Lab In the previous post, we configured our GSLB Service.In this post we’ll cover the creation of the DNS Delegation to allow us to forward traffic to our GSLB. The final step! Let’s create the DNS Delegation in our Active Directory server, I’m running a single Active Directory VM with […]
AVI/ALB GSLB Lab: GSLB Service
Intro Welcome to Part 5 of the AVI/ALB GSLB Lab In the previous post, we configured our GSLB Sites.In this post we’ll cover the creation of the GSLB Service. GSLB Service Configuration From the DC A Avi controller from the left menu select Applications then GSLB Services then click CREATE Advanced Setup. Enter a name this can be just […]
AVI/ALB GSLB Lab: GSLB Site Configuration
Intro Welcome to Part 4 of the AVI/ALB GSLB Lab In the previous post, we created the DNS Virtual Services at each site.In this post we’ll cover the GSLB Site Configuration. DCA Configuration On the DC A Avi controller from the left menu select Infrastructure then GSLB now click the Pencil icon. Enter a name, set the Username and […]
AVI/ALB GSLB Lab: DNS Virtual Service
Intro Welcome to Part 3 of the AVI/ALB GSLB Lab In the previous post, we created a new Service Engine Group.In this post we’ll cover the the Creation of the DNS Virtual Service. Virtual Service Configuration From the left menu select Applications then select Virtual Services and click CREATE VIRTUAL SERVICE Advanced Setup Select the NSX-T cloud and then […]
AVI/ALB GSLB Lab: DNS Virtual Service, Service Engine Group
Intro Welcome to Part 2 of the AVI/ALB GSLB Lab In the previous post, we covered the creation of the IPAM DNS Profile.In this post we’ll cover the Configuration of the Service Engine Group for the DNS Virtual Service. Why create a new SE Group? Avi recommends that you use a dedicated Service Engine group for the DNS Virtual […]
AVI/ALB GSLB Lab: IPAM DNS Profile
Intro Welcome to Part 1 of the AVI/ALB GSLB Lab In the previous post, we covered the introduction to the AVI/ALB GSLB lab series.In this post we’ll cover the the Configuration of the IPAM DNS Profile in Avi. Configuration IPAM/DNS Profile Login to your controller for Site A for me that’s dca-avi-ctl01.lab.local From the left menu select […]
AVI/NSX-ALB GSLB Lab
Intro Welcome to my latest blog series on AVI / VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer.This time around I’m going to be configuring a Global Server Load Balancer (GSLB).This is a follow on series from my AVI / VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer Lab I’ll be focusing on the NSX-T cloud side of things since that […]