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Tier-1 Failure Domain
With every new release of NSX-T interesting features are added to the platform. Take failure domain for example. Introduced in version 2.5, failure domain adds another layer of protection for the centralized services running on Tier-1 Gateways. It basically facilitates… Continue reading
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Bulk Create NSX-T Segments Using A Postman Data File
Imagine this, you’ve been tasked with implementing micro-segmentation in your vSphere environment. You just deployed and configured NSX-T and the next step is to migrate VMs from their VDS port groups to N-VDS segments. You fire up the vSphere Client… Continue reading
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Deploying NSX-T in a Stretched Cluster – Part 2
Welcome back! I’m in the process of setting up NSX-T in a stretched cluster environment. In part 1 I deployed the NSX manager cluster and configured the ESXi hosts as NSX transport nodes. The N-VDS was installed on the ESXi… Continue reading
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Deploying NSX-T in a Stretched Cluster – Part 1
A stretched cluster architecture facilitates for higher levels of availability and things like inter-site load balancing. It’s a common multisite solution and also part of VMware’s Validated Design for SDDCs with multiple availability zones. Traditionally compute networking in an active-active… Continue reading
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Single N-VDS per Edge VM
Recently a new version of the NSX-T Reference Design Guide was released. This guide, which now covers NSX-T versions 2.0 – 2.5, is a must read for anyone interested in the NSX-T solutions and their recommended design. One of the… Continue reading
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NSX-T Recoverability – Part 2
Welcome back! In part 1 we had a look at some NSX-T management plane failure scenarios and how to recover from them. In this part we continue to investigate NSX-T recoverability at the data plane and more specifically the NSX… Continue reading
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Installing NSX Intelligence
With NSX-T 2.5 comes NSX Intelligence 1.0. This component, which is part of NSX Data Center Enterprise Plus, is something I’ve been looking forward to since it was announced. NSX Intelligence adds a powerful analytics engine to the NSX-T platform.… Continue reading
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NSX-T Recoverability – Part 1
Like everything else in life, stuff can break in your NSX-T environment too. When that happens it’s important to understand how to get things back on track again. In the following blog articles I’m going through a couple of NSX-T… Continue reading
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VMware Advanced Design NSX-T Data Center 2.4 Exam Review
On August 30th 2019 I passed the brand new VMware Advanced Design NSX-T Data Center 2.4 exam. Let me tell you a little more about this exam and how I prepared for it. About the exam As far as I… Continue reading
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VMware Professional NSX-T Data Center 2.4 Exam Review
I recently passed the Professional NSX-T Data Center 2.4 (2V0-41.19) exam and in this short post I would like to share my experience with the exam and some recommendations for preparing for the exam. About the exam As with all… Continue reading
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