NSX T 3 Edge Cluster Failover Scenario | LAB2PROD
In NSX-T 3.0 the edges require an active BFD session in order to remain in an up/active state. When you have two edge virtual machines in a cluster, they create…
In NSX-T 3.0 the edges require an active BFD session in order to remain in an up/active state. When you have two edge virtual machines in a cluster, they create…
Scenario: So, I was full of energy completing one of my NSX 6.3.5 deployments. Everything was straight forward deploying NSX Manager, Controllers, preparing hosts, configuring VXLAN, … etc, until I…
Introduction: From my opinion, setting up a lab and trying to break and fix the deployment is the best way to learn about the product before implementing a production environment….
September 18, 2020 Multisite Deployment of NSX-T Data Center Part 2| LAB2PROD NSX-T Active-Active Multisite in a Single Region and Failover to a Secondary Region Part 2 This article will…
September 18, 2020 Multisite Deployment of NSX-T Data Center Part 1| LAB2PROD NSX-T Active-Active Multisite in a Single Region and Failover to a Secondary Region Part 1. A client required…
A jumbo frame is an Ethernet frame with a payload greater than the standard maximum transmission unit (MTU) of 1,500 bytes. Jumbo frames allow ESXi to send larger frames out onto the physical network . Jumbo Frames can…
September 29, 2020 Building a Multi-NIC VCF 4 Workload Domain using API | LAB2PROD Using API to create a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) multi-nic workload domain In this article we…
Recently, I was engaged in a NSX deployment where we installed NSX for vSphere v6.3.4. However, couple of days later, VMware highlighted that there is a critical bug with this…
October 12, 2020 Multi-Cloud GSLB using NSX Advanced Load Balancer|LAB2PROD A guide to configuring a Global Server Load Balancer (GSLB) between an on premise NSX-T enabled datacenter and Amazon Web…
November 15, 2020 NSX-T Transport VLANs and Inter TEP Communication | LAB2PROD Inter TEP Communication, Sharing Transport VLANs: Unpacking One of The Latest Features In NSX-T 3.1 This post will…
January 12, 2021 SSL Termination: Securing Web Traffic with NSX-ALB | LAB2PROD Leverage NSX-ALB to encrypt your data with SSL Termination! In this blog post we will cover the different…
Recently I was engaged with a full vSphere migration for one of our customers (both hardware and software). We faced an issue getting Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) to work…
February 17, 2021 HomeLab: Hybrid Cloud | LAB2PROD Scaling out the Datacentre After posting about my latest homelab acquisitions, I’ve gotten a lot of interest to understand what I’m running…
Greetings, In this relatively short post, I will start with a brief introduction about NSX distributed logical router (DLR) and then I will delve into the main topic which I…
In a recent PSO VMware NSX engagement with one of our customers, and as their new hardware arrived, they decided to make a migration of ESG edges and DLR control…
March 4, 2021 The Unofficial VCF Troubleshooting Guide v2 | LAB2PROD Getting past those annoying issues when administering VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) This is my unofficial VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)…
Introduction Whenever you prepare a vSphere cluster in NSX, the distributed firewall is enabled automatically on all ESXi hosts in that cluster. One of these clusters can be your management…
Introduction As NSX is driving the evolution of the next generation networking era, learning NSX is a must in my humble opinion. VMware does not consider NSX as a product…