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 […]
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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 […]
AVI/ALB Lab: Basic Virtual Service Creation
Intro Welcome to Part 11 of the AVI/ALB Lab In the previous post, we configured the creation of the Avi IPAM Profile. In this post we’ll cover the creation of a basic Virtual Service. What is a Virtual Service? Depending on which documentation you read a Virtual Service is described in slightly different ways, the Avi networks documentation […]
AVI/ALB Lab: IPAM Configuration
Intro Welcome to Part 10 of the AVI/ALB Lab In the previous post, we configured the Management and VIP networks within Avi. In this post we’ll cover the creation of the Avi IPAM Profile. What is IPAM? IP Address Management (IPAM) is a method used to plan, track and manage information associated with a network’s Internet Protocol address […]
AVI/ALB Lab: Management and VIP Network Allocation
Intro Welcome to Part 9 of the AVI/ALB Lab In the previous post, we configured our SE Group settings.In this post we’ll cover the configuration of the Management and VIP networks within Avi. Why we need to do this Since I am not using DHCP to assign IP addresses to the SE management Interfaces or to the VIP’s […]
AVI/ALB Lab: SE Group Configuration
Intro Welcome to Part 8 of the AVI/ALB Lab In the previous post, we configured our NSX-T cloud.In this post we’ll cover setting up the SE group settings. What is an SE group? A Service Engine (SE) group contains the definitions on how SE’s that are part of the group will be sized, placed and configured for HA. […]
AVI/ALB Lab: NSX-T Overlay Cloud Configuration
Intro Welcome to Part 7 of the AVI/ALB Lab In the previous post, we covered the initial configuration of the Avi Controller.In this post we’ll cover the creation of the NSX-T overlay cloud. What is a Cloud in AVI? Clouds are containers for the environment that Avi Vantage is installed or operating within. During initial setup of Avi, […]