NSX-T: Configure DHCP Server
Recently I have been working with a NSX-T engagement in a customer environment where they have NSX-v for their production environment and they requested to implement NSX-T in their UAT…
NSX-T: Configure Network Address Translation (NAT)
Introduction Network address translation (NAT) in NSX-T Data Center can be configured on Tier-0 and Tier-1 gateways. Different types of NAT rules can be configured: Source NAT (SNAT): Supported on…
NSX Application Platform Part 1: Environment Overview
January 4, 2022 NSX Application Platform Part 1: Environment Overview Lab Architecture, Resources, and Software This will be a four part blog series detailing the deployment of NSX Application Platform…
Configure NSX-T 3.x Load Balancer for Cloud Director 10.x Cells
As I started my cloud director (formerly vCloud director) journey, I am following a learn-by-doing approach as I want to set up my cloud director environment and blog about it…
Create Geneve-Backed Provider VDC in Cloud Director 10.x
VMware Cloud Director enables cloud providers to build secure, multi-tenant clouds by pooling virtual infrastructure resources into virtual data centers. Cloud Director introduces the virtual infrastructure resources to users through…
NSX Application Platform Part 2: Harbor Image Registry
January 5, 2022 NSX Application Platform Part 2: Harbor Image Registry Harbor Image Registry Configuration The Harbor image registry is critical to the successful deployment of the NSX Application Platform…
VMware Cloud Director 10.x Integration with vCenter 7.x and NSX-T 3.x
VMware Cloud Director as a cloud management platform (CMP) offers true multi-tenancy where each customer has a self-service tenant portal that will be used to provision workloads and other services….
VMware Cloud Director 10.x: Org and OrgVDC Creation
An organization is the fundamental vCloud director grouping that contains users, vApps that they create, and the resources that the vApps use. An organization is the top-level container in a…
NSX Application Platform Part 3: NSX-T, NSX-ALB (Avi), and Tanzu
January 5, 2022 NSX Application Platform Part 3: NSX-T, NSX-ALB (Avi), and Tanzu NSX-T Logical Networking, Ingress, Load balancing, and Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service (TKGS) This article will elaborate on…
VMware Cloud Director 10.1.1 – One or more VC/NSXs have been detected to be disconnected
As I already deployed cloud director 10.1.1 and integrated it with vCenter 7.0 and NSX-T 3.0. Things were working as expected and vCenter connection status was successful and connected until…
NSX Application Platform Part 4: Deploying the Application Platform
January 7, 2022 NSX Application Platform Part 4: Deploying the Application Platform Completing the NSX Application Platform (NAPP) Deployment The previous articles covered the foundation required to deploy NAPP. This…
Step-By-Step: Upgrade a Multi-Cell Cloud Director From 10.1 to 10.2
VMware Cloud Director 10.2 is generally available now with a lot of enhancements and features such as full use of NSX-T and delivering self-service functionality in Edge firewall and IP…
NSX-T 3.x Certificate Replacement Series – Part1: Configure MS CA Server
As I received multiple requests about how-to steps needed for NSX-T manager cluster certificate replacement, I decided to write a 3-parts series to clarify and illustrate the complete step-by-step procedure…
NSX-T 3.x Certificate Replacement Series – Part2: Request and Issue Certificates
This is part2 of my 3-parts NSX-T series that illustrates the complete step-by-step procedure to replace the self-signed certificates for NSX-T 3.x manager cluster with MS-based CA-signed certificates. In part1…
Rebuild a Failed VCF Managed Host
March 10, 2022 Rebuild a Failed VCF Managed Host Replace a Host With Custom NIC Mapping The Issue? A host in the VCF Management Domain Failed In this post I…
NSX-T 3.x Certificate Replacement Series – Part3: Activate CA-Signed Certificates
This is part3 of my 3-parts NSX-T series that illustrates the complete step-by-step procedure to replace the self-signed certificates for NSX-T 3.x manager cluster with MS-based CA-signed certificates. In part1…
My First Book – NSX-T Logical Routing!
NSX-T March 22, 2022 My First Book – NSX-T Logical Routing! Late last year, a project that I had been working on for close to a year finally came to…
NSX-T 3.x – Configuring VRF Lite
In this post, I am going to demonstrate how NSX-T helps isolate routing domains by configuring NSX-T 3.x VRF lite. Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) is a routing technology that…