Welcome to the final part of this series. We've come a long way. After configuring North-South dynamic routing between the Tier-0 logical router and the "physical" (pfSense) router in part 5, it's now time to add a Tier-1 logical router and some logical switches. Tier-1 logical router The purpose of Tier-1 routers is to facilitate … Continue reading NSX-T Lab – Part 6
NSX-T Lab – Part 5
Hi there again! I've made some good progress with my NSX-T lab deployment, but there's still a lot to do! The plan Back in part three I made a high-level plan for the NSX data plane deployment. Let's have a look: Prepare the vSphere distributed switch - part threeConfigure transport zones - part threeCreate logical … Continue reading NSX-T Lab – Part 5
NSX-T Lab – Part 4
Welcome back! I'm still busy installing NSX-T in my lab. I prepared the vSphere distributed switch, configured the NSX transport zones, and created the transit logical switches in part three. I will now continue with setting up the NSX transport nodes. Hypervisor transport nodes I'll start with turning my ESXi hosts into NSX transport nodes. … Continue reading NSX-T Lab – Part 4
NSX-T Lab – Part 3
Welcome back! I'm in the middle of installing NSX-T in my vSphere lab environment. In part one I installed NSX Manager, in part two I deployed the NSX Controller Cluster. Now it's time start working on what it's all about: The data plane. High-level overview Setting up a complete NSX-T data plane involves installing and … Continue reading NSX-T Lab – Part 3
NSX-T Lab – Part 2
Welcome back! I'm in the process of installing NSX-T in my lab environment. So far I have deployed NSX Manager which is the central management plane component of the NSX-T platform.Today I will continue the installation and add a NSX-T controller to the lab environment. Control plane The control plane in NSX is responsible for … Continue reading NSX-T Lab – Part 2
NSX-T Lab – Part 1
Learning by doing is my preferred method of getting to know a product or technology I haven't worked with before. Take NSX-T for example. On the surface NSX-T seems to be just another flavour of network virtualisation technology by VMware. But having a closer look I quickly realised NSX-T is quite a different beast compared … Continue reading NSX-T Lab – Part 1
Cross-vCenter NSX – Part 3
Welcome back! In part two we deployed the data plane for the East-West traffic in our cross-vCenter NSX environment. In this part we continue with the setting up the components for the North-South traffic. Current state A quick look at the current state of our cross-vCenter NSX lab environment. The management plane and the control … Continue reading Cross-vCenter NSX – Part 3
