Intro Welcome to Part 6 of the AVI/ALB Lab In the previous post, we covered the deployment of the Avi Controller VM.In this post we’ll cover the initial configuration of the Controller. What is a Cloud? Clouds are containers for the environment that Avi Vantage is installed or operating within. During initial setup of Avi Vantage, a default […]
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AVI/ALB Lab: AVI Controller Deployment
Intro Welcome to Part 5 of the NSX-T AVI/ALB Lab and Part 3 of the vCenter AVI/ALB Lab In the NSX-T previous post, we covered the creation of the Overlay Segments for the Avi SE Management and VIPs.In the vCenter previous post, we covered the configuration of permissions in vCenter.In this post we’ll cover the deployment of […]
AVI/ALB Lab: NSX-T Segments
Intro Welcome to Part 4 of the AVI/ALB Lab In the previous post, we covered the creation of the Content library.In this post we’ll cover the creation of the NSX-T Overlay segments. Requirements The next thing we need to setup before we can configure the Avi controller is the NSX-T segments for Management and the VIPs. […]
AVI/ALB Lab: vCenter Content Library
Intro Welcome to Part 3 of the NSX-T AVI/ALB Lab In the previous post, we covered configuring the permissions and users needed.In this post we’ll cover the creation of the vCenter content library. What is a content library? Content libraries are container objects for VM and vApp templates and other types of files, such as ISO […]
AVI/ALB Lab: vCenter and NSX-T Permissions
Intro Welcome to Part 2 of the NSX-T AVI/ALB Lab In the previous post, we covered the architecture of AviIn this post we’ll cover the required vCenter and NSX-T Permissions and users. Overview Rather than using the generic vSphere or NSX-T admin accounts for permissions for Avi which would work, it’s best practise to configure service […]
AVI/ALB Lab: Architecture
Intro Welcome to Part 1 of the AVI/ALB Lab In the previous post, we covered the introduction to the AVI/ALB lab series.In this post we’ll cover the architecture of the Avi load balancer solution. Architecture Overview The Avi load balancer is a really nice fit with NSX-T and it follows a very familiar architecture. At a […]
AVI / VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer Lab
Intro Welcome to my new blog series on AVI / VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer or simply ALB.Back in July 2019 VMware bought Avi Networks, and since then has been integrating the Avi Load balancers more and more into the VMware products. Avi worked with vCenter before it was purchased by VMware but it is […]
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 […]
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 […]
NSX-T Configuring Backups
Intro Setting up the backup of the NSX-T managers is a fairly simple process and is done via the web UI. what can’t be managed from the UI is the retention period of the backups that has to be done via a script on the SFTP server otherwise the backup server will eventually run out […]