Intro Welcome to Part 11 of the NSX-T Lab Series. In the previous post, we set up our network segments and attached our VM’s to the networks. We successfully pinged within each Layer 2 network.We could now go ahead and deploy a Tier 1 logical router and connect those segments to it to get layer 3 connectivity […]
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NSX-T Lab: Segments
Intro Welcome to Part 10 of the NSX-T Lab Series. In the previous post, we finally installed NSX-T on our compute host cluster.Before we deploy the Edge nodes we will create our Segments/Logical Switches. Why do you keep saying Segments/Logical Switches? So a Logical switch is an NSX-V and early NSX-T name for the VXLAN/Geneve VLAN that […]
NSX-T Lab: Host Transport Nodes
Intro Welcome to Part 9 of the NSX-T Lab Series. In the previous post, we configured a Host Transport Node Profile ready for use in configuring NSX-T on our compute cluster.In this post we’ll use that profile to make our lives easier but I will also cover configuring a host as a standalone. Lab guide stage comparison. […]
NSX-T Lab: Transport Node Profile
Intro Welcome to Part 8 of the NSX-T Lab Series. In the previous post, we created the uplink profile for our compute nodes, so now we can start building our Transport nodes.So why is step 8 a profile and step 9 configuring the transport node? Well let me explain. What is a Transport Node Profile and why do […]
NSX-T Lab: Custom Uplink Profile
Intro Welcome to Part 7 of the NSX-T Lab Series. In the previous post, we created our Transport Zones, adding two VLAN TZ’s and one Overlay TZ. It’s a bit horse before the cart situation, since I already knew how I was going to configure the Uplink profile and the Edge node connectivity so I know I […]
NSX-T Lab: Transport Zones
Intro Welcome to Part 6 of the NSX-T Lab Series. In the previous post, we covered creating an IP Pool.In this post we’ll cover the creation of Transport zones. So what is a Transport Zone then? A transport zone defines the span of a logical network and therefore the reach of transport nodes. It is not a […]
NSX-T Lab: IP Pool’s
Intro Welcome to Part 5 of the NSX-T Lab Series. In the previous post, we covered adding/removing additional NSX Managers and forming a cluster.In this post we’ll cover the creation of IP Pools for the host TEP’s. What is an IP Pool? As per the VMware documentation: Tunnel endpoints are the source and destination IP addresses used […]
NSX-T Lab: Deploy Additional Manager and form a cluster
Intro Welcome to Part 4 of the NSX-T Lab Series. In the previous post, we covered adding the vCenter as a compute manager.In this post we’ll be adding an additional NSX-T manager to form a cluster and setting the VIP used for load balancing, and for good measure I’ll cover removing said cluster as well 🙂 Why […]
NSX-T Lab: Add Compute Manager
Intro Welcome to Part 3 of the NSX-T Lab Series. In the previous post, we covered the deployment of the NSX-T Manager OVA. In this post we’ll be covering adding the vCenter as a compute manager. What is a compute manager? NSX-T does not pair with vCenter in the same way that NSX-V does in fact NSX-T does […]
NSX-T Lab: 2.4 Install, OVA Deployment of NSX-T Manager.
Intro Welcome to Part 2 of the NSX-T Lab Series. In the previous post, we covered my lab setup. In this post we’ll cover the deployment process for the NSX-T Manager appliance. What is the NSX Manager? NSX Manager is essentially where the users configure the NSX networking solution. it provides the management and control […]