2.5

  • 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 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

  • NSX-T Meets FRRouting – Part 1

    Until recently I always used pfSense with the OpenBGPD package as the NSX-T Edge counterpart in my lab environment. It’s quick and easy to set up and works well enough. But pfSense is not what I typically find in a… Continue reading

    NSX-T Meets FRRouting – Part 1

  • 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

    Tier-1 Failure Domain

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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