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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
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Locking NSX-T Firewall Policies
After receiving a couple questions about the NSX-T firewall policy locking feature, I decided to write a short blog post about it. The purpose of locking a firewall policy The easy part first. As explained in the official NSX-T documentation… Continue reading
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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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