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  • NSX-T Multisite – Disaster Recovery Part 1

    When it comes to creating a design for NSX-T Multisite, use case and geography are two key factors. Two common use cases for organizations to start looking at a multisite architecture are: Disaster Recovery – Protection against site failure. Availability… Continue reading

  • NSX-T Guest Introspection With Trend Micro Deep Security

    Integrating third party security services with NSX has always been a popular feature of the platform. While NSX comes with its own set of robust security services, there are scenarios where additional workload protection is required. The ability for a… Continue reading

    NSX-T Guest Introspection With Trend Micro Deep Security

  • NSX-T LB Server Pool Member Status

    Recently somebody asked me if it was possible to see the current status for individual NSX-T load balancer server pool members. This information is indeed available in the NSX Manager simplified UI as you can see below: The same info… Continue reading

  • Terraform Support For NSX-T Policy API

    The next release of Terraform’s NSX-T provider will add support for the NSX-T policy API. I know many people (including myself) have been waiting for this so it’s kind of a big thing within that space. While the new NSX-T… Continue reading

    Terraform Support For NSX-T Policy API

  • Packet Capture On Tier-0 Uplinks

    With NSX-T logical networking the Tier-0 uplinks become the central passage for all of the North-South traffic—i.e., traffic between the NSX-T logical networks and the physical network. A critical point in the NSX-T data plane and one that we might… Continue reading

    Packet Capture On Tier-0 Uplinks

  • NSX-T Meets FRRouting – Part 2

    Welcome back! We’re in the process of building an NSX-T Edge – FRRouting environment. In part 1 we prepared the FRR routers by doing he following: Installed two Debian Linux servers Installed VLAN support Enabled packet forwarding Configured network interfaces… Continue reading

    NSX-T Meets FRRouting – Part 2

  • NSX-T Meets FRRouting – Part 1

    Until recently I always used pfSense with the OpenBGPD package as the NSX-T Edge counterpart in my lab environment. It’s quick and easy to set up and works well enough. But pfSense is not what I typically find in a… Continue reading

    NSX-T Meets FRRouting – Part 1

  • Site-to-Site VPN Between NSX-T Tier-1 And AWS VPC

    Now that I started studying for the AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty I have to learn pretty much everything about AWS networking. Naturally VPN is a part of that. When it comes to AWS VPN the most common use… Continue reading

    Site-to-Site VPN Between NSX-T Tier-1 And AWS VPC

  • Kubernetes – NSX-T Lab

    A while back Dumlu Timuralp published an excellent guide on integrating NSX-T 2.5 with K8s. If you haven’t read it already I strongly recommend that you have a look at it. The guide goes through every step of configuring the… Continue reading

    Kubernetes – NSX-T Lab

  • NSX-T Distributed Firewall Threshold Monitoring

    Like any other firewall the NSX-T Distributed Firewall (DFW) consumes memory and CPU. Unlike other firewalls the DFW’s resource consumption is distributed, taking place on the transport nodes where the workloads it protects reside. Memory allocation An ESXi transport node… Continue reading

    NSX-T Distributed Firewall Threshold Monitoring