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Avi Load Balancer Metrics with Prometheus and Grafana
Avi Load Balancer offers a wealth of valuable metrics that can be accessed directly via the Avi Controller’s UI or API. However, there are various reasons why you might want to make these metrics available outside of its native platform.… Continue reading
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Network Visibility for TKG Service Clusters
TKG Service Clusters using the default Antrea CNI, can be easily configured for enhanced network visibility through flow visualization and monitoring. The ability to monitor network traffic within your Kubernetes clusters, as well as between your Kubernetes constructs and the… Continue reading
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Integrating TKG Service Clusters with NSX Security
Organizations aiming to leverage NSX for securing their TKG Service Clusters (Kubernetes clusters) can now achieve this with relative ease. In this guide, I’ll walk you through configuring the integration between a TKG Service Cluster and NSX—a required step for… Continue reading
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Quick Tip: NSX Advanced Load Balancer for vSphere Tanzu with NSX Networking
As of NSX version 4.1.1, NSX Advanced Load Balancer version 22.1.4, and vSphere with Tanzu version 8.0 Update 2 we have the option to leverage the NSX Advanced Load Balancer as the load balancer provider for new vSphere with Tanzu… Continue reading
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NSX 4.1.2 – GRE Tunnels
NSX 4.1.2 introduces support for Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) tunnels for Tier-0 gateways and Tier-0 VRF gateways offering another standards-based option for “plumbing” network paths that lead traffic into and out of the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC). In today’s short… Continue reading
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NSX 4.1.2 – IDS/IPS Packet Capture
A nice new feature that shipped with NSX 4.1.2 is the ability to download packet capture files (PCAPs) containing packets that were detected or prevented by NSX IDS/IPS. This enables teams to store and investigate network data related to intrusion… Continue reading
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Configuring DPU-Based Acceleration for NSX
Offloading the NSX Distributed Firewall (DFW) to a Data Processing Unit (DPU) is an exciting new feature which is GA as of NSX version 4.1. Other NSX features that were already supported within DPU-based acceleration for NSX are: For NSX… Continue reading
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NSX Application Platform – Installation Notes
A while back I needed to deploy the NSX Application Platform (NAPP) in my lab environment to demonstrate features like NSX Intelligence and the ones within NSX Advanced Threat Prevention (ATP). In my experience, deploying NAPP can be more or… Continue reading
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BGP EVPN Between NSX And VyOS – Part 2
Welcome back! In Part 1 we configured and prepared NSX to participate in a BGP EVPN control and data plane. In this part we continue with configuration of the VyOS router. Once both NSX and VyOS are configured we’ll verify… Continue reading
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BGP EVPN Between NSX And VyOS – Part 1
Recently I’ve been looking into setting up BGP EVPN between VMware NSX and VyOS router. I’m using VyOS quite a lot in labs and demos, often as the counterpart to a Tier-0 gateway, and wanted to find out if it… Continue reading
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