Step-By-Step: Install and Configure NSX Manager 6.4.1
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…
VMware NSX Edge Not resolving Syslog FQDN ? Configure DNS Client via REST API
Introduction Well, recently I was checking an issue for one of our customers, where NSX edges were not sending logs to their configured syslog server. I found the issue as…
VMware ECMP NSX Edges Dropping Packets? Check RPF & Firewall
Recently, I was checking an interesting issue for one of our customers. They are experiencing random packet dropping where users accessing their applications running on NSX environment are suffering from…
Step-by-Step: Workload Migration to NSX-v Domain Preserving IP address Schema
With the IT transformation towards software defined data center (SDDC), and the wide adoption of software defined networking (SDN), most of current vSphere customers are considered as potential NSX ones,…
Errors with VCF 4.2.1 Configuration Drift Bundle
August 3, 2021 Errors with VCF 4.2.1 Configuration Drift Bundle Precheck Failures Preventing Upgrades The Issue? “NSX-T Audit Check Failures” Ordinarily, upgrading VCF versions should be easy. Unfortunately, this isn’t…
Step-by-Step: VMware vRealize Automation 7.x to 7.5 Upgrade
Upgrading vRA solution has been always tricky as it is version dependent. Although the process is somehow similar, it may include less or more steps if you have a minimal…
NSX for vSphere: Add Floating Static Routes to NSX Edge via REST API
Recently I have been engaged in a NSX-v PSO engagement where we need to make sure all the best practices are applied to the environment. Trust me, with every engagement,…
Step-by-Step: Deploy VMware NSX-T 2.4.1 Manager
I have been designing and deploying NSX-v solutions as part of my PSO role for the past 3 years. Aside with that, I decided to start my journey towards NSX-T…
NSX-T 2.4.1: Configure Licensing & Register Compute Managers
In my previous post, I shared a step-by-step procedure to deploy NSX-T 2.4.1 manager. In this post, I am gonna move one step ahead and configure NSX-T licensing and register…
NSX-T 2.4.1: Configure NSX-T Manager Cluster
NSX-T 2.4.x manager is an appliance with 3 built-in roles: policy manager, manager, and controller. The management plane contains the policy and the manager roles. The central control plane includes…
Deploy NSX-T Edge Clusters using SDDC Manager API
September 21, 2021 Deploy NSX-T Edge Clusters using SDDC Manager API A quicker way to deploy multiple clusters What? Utilize SDDC Manager’s API to deploy NSX-T Edge Clusters I decided…
NSX-v 6.4.x: Configure NSX Manager with more than Two DNS Servers
I was preparing for a NSX-v engagement recently where the customer was so curious about the redundancy of all integrated components with the NSX environment. They insisted to add all…
NSX-T: Filter Route Re-Destribution of Transit Subnets to Upstream Router
One of the customer requirements I have been asked to do a couple of days ago is to filter the transit subnets from being re-distributed from the NSX-T domain to…
NSX-T: Migrate VMKernel Ports from VSS/VDS to N-VDS
It has been a while I didn’t write any blog due to my short time handling multiple PSO projects with a lot of traveling. Today I am going to share…
NSX-T Federated VCF Regions (VCF Multi-Region)
October 25, 2021 NSX-T Federated VCF Regions (VCF Multi-Region) A Step-by-step approach A Written Guide to NSX-T Federated VCF Regions The intention of this post is to provide some of…
NSX-T Edge Deletion Failed
November 6, 2021 NSX-T Edge Deletion Failed Manually Cleaning Up Orphaned Edge Nodes What? Cleaning Up Stale Edge Nodes from NSX-T Manager I recently ran into an issue where a…
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…