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  • Nested vSphere 7 And NSX-T 3.0 Deployed With Ansible

    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… Continue reading

    Nested vSphere 7 And NSX-T 3.0 Deployed With Ansible

  • NSX-T 3.0 Meets vSphere 7 – VDS 7.0

    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… Continue reading

  • NSX-T Multisite – Disaster Recovery Part 2

    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… Continue reading

  • NSX-T Multisite – Disaster Recovery Part 1

    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… Continue reading

  • NSX-T Guest Introspection With Trend Micro Deep Security

    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… Continue reading

    NSX-T Guest Introspection With Trend Micro Deep Security

  • NSX-T LB Server Pool Member Status

    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… Continue reading

  • Terraform Support For NSX-T Policy API

    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… Continue reading

    Terraform Support For NSX-T Policy API

  • Packet Capture On Tier-0 Uplinks

    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… Continue reading

    Packet Capture On Tier-0 Uplinks

  • NSX-T Meets FRRouting – Part 2

    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… Continue reading

    NSX-T Meets FRRouting – Part 2