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It’s finally here. NSX-T 3.0 adds support for Active Directory identity sources to be used with NSX-T role-based access control. This will make life a little easier for many customers. Previously, a separate VMware Identity Manager (vIDM) virtual appliance was required to be able to map Active Directory users and groups to NSX-T roles. Now…
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With VMware releasing new major versions of vSphere and NSX-T last week, it’s high season for nested lab deployments. My Norwegian Proact colleague Rudi Martinsen just published a great two part series on how to deploy a nested lab using vRealize Automation. My Dutch buddy at VMware Iwan Hoogendoorn is doing something very exciting with…
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With the release of vSphere 7 comes the vSphere Distributed Switch 7.0. This latest version comes with support for NSX-T Distributed Port Groups. Now, for the first time ever it is possible to use a single vSphere Distributed Switch for both NSX-T 3.0 and vSphere 7 networking! First and foremost, this new integration enables a…
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Welcome back! Today we continue our NSX-T Multisite adventure. Let’s begin with a short recap of what we did in part 1. We started off in an environment with a production site and a partially deployed disaster recovery site. Tasked with configuring the NSX-T 2.5.1 implementation for the new multisite environment, we took the following…
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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 – Workload pooling with active workloads at each site facilitating higher service availability. Site geography…
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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 partner solution to leverage the rather unique layer in which the NSX platform operates with…
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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 can be found under Advanced Networking & Security: It’s nice that we can find this…
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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 provider is not released yet (it’s still being tested), the source code is available on…
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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 want to place under a magnifying glass from time to time. In this short article…
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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 Installed and configured VRRP Installed FRRouting In this second part we will first deploy the…
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