NSX-V version 6.4.6 has been released, the release notes are here https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-NSX-Data-Center-for-vSphere/6.4/rn/releasenotes_nsx_vsphere_646.html The Route redistribution bug that I found and blogged about in this post has been fixed. “Fixed Issue 2360114 – In a multi-site Cross-VC NSX environment, Route Redistribution page for an edge that is managed by a secondary NSX Manager is unavailable. This […]
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NSX-V 6.4.5 Route Redistribution Greyed Out Issue
I’ve seen this issue with a couple of customer builds over the last few months and for some reason it seems to only affect the ESG’s on the secondary site in a cross site NSX-V deployment. The issue is the ESG’s in the secondary site have the route redistribution settings greyed out as can be […]
NSX-V Lab: ESG Routing Configuration
Intro Welcome to Part 15 of the NSX-V Lab Series. In the previous post, we deployed our ESG’s.In this post we will configure our Edge Services Gateways and setup dynamic routing between the DLR and ESGs and to our simulated physical routers. This is a big post so get ready! The Build As mentioned in the previous […]
NSX-V Lab: Edge Services Gateways
Intro Welcome to Part 14 of the NSX-V Lab Series. In the previous post, we created our universal Distributed Logical Router.In this post we will deploy our Edge Services Gateways and get them ready to connect them to our Distributed Logical Router and peer with our simulated physical routers. What is an Edge Services Gateway? An Edge […]
NSX-V Lab: Distributed Logical Routers
Intro Welcome to Part 13 of the NSX-V Lab Series. In the previous post, we created our Logical Switches.In this post we will configure our Distributed Logical Router and connect our test App Logical Switches to it. What is a Distributed Logical Router? A distributed logical router (DLR) is a virtual appliance that contains the routing control […]
NSX-V Lab: Logical Switches
Intro Welcome to Part 12 of the NSX-V Lab Series. In the previous post, we covered configuring our Transport Zones.In this post we will configure our Logical Switches and connect our test app to them. What is a Logical Switch? An logical switch reproduces switching functionality (unicast, multicast, broadcast) in a virtual environment completely decoupled from underlying […]
NSX-V Lab: Transport Zones
Intro Welcome to Part 11 of the NSX-V Lab Series. In the previous post, we covered configuring our secondary NSX Manager prepared our Site B hosts and configured them for VXLAN.In this post we will configure our Transport zones. What is a transport zone? A transport zone is used to define the scope of a VXLAN overlay […]
NSX-V Lab: Secondary NSX Manager Configuration
Intro Welcome to Part 10 of the NSX-V Lab Series. In the previous post, we covered configuring the Segment ID’s for both global for site A and Universal Segments.In this post we will cover configuring our secondary NSX Manager, prepared our Site B hosts and configured them for VXLAN so it’ll be a pretty large post but […]
NSX-V Lab: Segment ID
Intro Welcome to Part 9 of the NSX-V Lab Series. In the previous post, we covered configuring the VXLAN parameters and installing the VTEPs on our hosts.In this post we will configure our Segment ID’s and make our NSX manager the primary manager ready for our dual site configuration. Segment ID Put simply a segment ID is […]
NSX-V Lab: Configure VXLAN
Intro Welcome to Part 8 of the NSX-V Lab Series. In the previous post, we prepared our hosts for NSX. In this post we will configure the VXLAN parameters and deploy our host VTEPs. What is VXLAN Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) is a networking technology designed to address the scalability issues with networks. Essentially it is a […]