nsx-t

  • Getting Started with the NSX-T API and Postman

    Wether you like it or not, the API plays a significant role when installing, configuring, and managing an NSX-T environment. Sooner or later you will be facing tasks that either require you to use the API or simply are much… Continue reading

  • Add NSX-T Tags To Virtual Machines with PowerShell

    NSX tags on virtual machines often play a fundamental role in a NSX micro-segmentation security framework. Tags are used as the criteria for security group membership which in turn are used as source or destination in distributed firewall policy rules.… Continue reading

  • Setting Up NSX-T Backup

    One of the first things to configure after deploying the NSX Manager nodes is backup. No NSX-T implementation should ever get configured let alone go live without a working backup (and restore) in place. Let’s have a look at how… Continue reading

  • vIDM SSL Thumbprint Trouble

    For Role Based Access Control (RBAC) in NSX-T we need to configure integration with VMware Identity Manager. There’s an excellent VMware blog post that explains in detail how to set up vIDM and how to configure the integration in NSX… Continue reading

  • Upgrade to NSX-T 2.4

    Back in February VMware announced version 2.4 of NSX-T calling it a “landmark release in the history of NSX”. The new and enhanced features introduced in version 2.4 are indeed impressive: Converged NSX Manager appliance – bringing together management, policy,… Continue reading

  • NSX-T Lab – Part 6

    Welcome to the final part of this series. We’ve come a long way. After configuring North-South dynamic routing between the Tier-0 logical router and the “physical” (pfSense) router in part 5, it’s now time to add a Tier-1 logical router… Continue reading

  • NSX-T Lab – Part 5

    Hi there again! I’ve made some good progress with my NSX-T lab deployment, but there’s still a lot to do! The plan Back in part three I made a high-level plan for the NSX data plane deployment. Let’s have a… Continue reading

  • NSX-T Lab – Part 4

    Welcome back! I’m still busy installing NSX-T in my lab. I prepared the vSphere distributed switch, configured the NSX transport zones, and created the transit logical switches in part three. I will now continue with setting up the NSX transport… Continue reading

    NSX-T Lab – Part 4

  • NSX-T Lab – Part 3

    Welcome back! I’m in the middle of installing NSX-T in my vSphere lab environment. In part one I installed NSX Manager, in part two I deployed the NSX Controller Cluster. Now it’s time start working on what it’s all about:… Continue reading

  • NSX-T Lab – Part 2

    Welcome back! I’m in the process of installing NSX-T in my lab environment. So far I have deployed NSX Manager which is the central management plane component of the NSX-T platform.Today I will continue the installation and add a NSX-T… Continue reading