Learning by doing is my preferred method of getting to know a product or technology I haven’t worked with before. Take NSX-T for example. On the surface NSX-T seems to be just another flavour of network virtualisation technology by VMware. But having a closer look I quickly realised NSX-T is quite a different beast compared…
Welcome back! In part two we deployed the data plane for the East-West traffic in our cross-vCenter NSX environment. In this part we continue with the setting up the components for the North-South traffic. Current state A quick look at the current state of our cross-vCenter NSX lab environment. The management plane and the control…
Welcome back! In part one we prepared the management and control plane for cross-vCenter NSX. In this part we’re going to deploy the data plane for the East-West traffic in a cross-vCenter NSX environment. Universal logical switch We start by deploying logical switching between our two fictional sites “DC-SE” and “DC-US”. To accomplish this we…
One of those scenarios where the NSX platform really shines is in multi-site environments. Here NSX together with vSphere is the infrastructure that delivers on business requirements like workload mobility, resource pooling, and consistent security. Since NSX version 6.2 we can roll out NSX in a vSphere environment managed by more than one vCenter system.…
3V0-643 is the exam code for the VMware Certified Advanced Professional 6 – Network Virtualization Deployment Exam. I recently passed this exam and thought I’d write a short blog post about it. About the exam The exam preparation guide for this exam contains the following description:” The 3VO-643 exam tests candidates on their skills and abilities…
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 how to configure a site-to-site IPsec VPN connection between two sites that are both using…
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. Let me show you. The diagram A high level overview of the NSX infrastructure for…
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 network virtualization. It’s simple enough, right? But then you realize you still have other virtual…
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 with the vSphere Client (H5). Interesting as well is the addition of two new administrative…
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 in case you want to play around with the logical load balancer or any of…
