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 […]
Tag: NSX-T
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 […]
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 […]
NSX-T Lab: Tier 0 Gateway
Intro Welcome to Part 16 of the NSX-T Lab Series. In the previous post, we configured our Tier 1 Gateway.In this post we will setup our Tier 0 Gateway and configure dynamic routing to the physical network and link our Tier 1 Gateway to our Tier 0 Gateway so the test app can be accessed from the […]
NSX-T Lab: Tier 1 Gateway
Intro Welcome to Part 15 of the NSX-T Lab Series. In the previous post, we discussed logical routing in NSX-T.In this post we will setup our Tier 1 Gateway and add our segments to it to get the Layer 3 routing working so our test app VMs can start talking to each other. The diagram below shows […]
NSX-T Lab: Logical Routers / Gateways
Intro Welcome to Part 14 of the NSX-T Lab Series. In the previous post, we configured our Edge cluster.In this post we briefly discuss Logical Routers / Gateways before we setup our Tier-1 and Tier-0 Gateways. First off my apologies for the delay in getting these posts up, life and work are taking up a lot of […]
NSX-T Lab: Edge Cluster
Intro Welcome to Part 13 of the NSX-T Lab Series. In the previous post, we deployed our second edge node via an OVA deployment. This post should be really small as we now add our two Edge nodes to an Edge cluster. What is an Edge cluster? Basically an Edge cluster is a group of Edge transport nodes […]
NSX-T Lab: Edge Node OVA Deployment
Intro Welcome to Part 12 of the NSX-T Lab Series. In the previous post, we deployed our first edge node via the NSX Manager web UI. This post should really be part 11b since it’s covering the same process just in a different way this time via an OVA deployment. So why do it this way? The VMware […]