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  • Site-to-site IPsec VPN with NSX

    With NSX Data Center for vSphere establishing site-to-site IPsec VPN connections is done on the Edge instances. One X-Large ESG instance supports up to 6000 IPsec tunnels which gives you an idea about scalability. In this exercise I’ll show you… Continue reading

  • Equal Cost Multi-Pathing in NSX Data Center

    By deploying multiple ESG appliances and enabling Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP) on the Distributed Logical Router (DLR), NSX Data Center provides scalability and redundancy for northbound traffic in our SDDC. Setting up ECMP in NSX Data Center is fairly easy.… Continue reading

  • NSX: Bridging between VXLAN and VLAN

    After you prepared your vSphere clusters for VXLAN you’re eager to start building your SDDC network. You provision some logical switches, a distributed logical router and maybe even an edge services gateway. Before you know it you are doing full-fledged… Continue reading

  • VMware NSX 6.4.2 Released

    VMware has released NSX Data Center for vSphere 6.4.2 and it comes with some nice improvements. Multicast routing is the big one in this release of course. It’s good to see that once again more NSX components can be managed/used… Continue reading

  • A simple NSX-V load balancer lab

    Recently I had to do a quick demo on the NSX-V logical load balancer. Setting up the NSX components in a small lab for such demo is a pretty straight-forward process. I thought I’d walk you through setting this up… Continue reading