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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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SDDC.Lab v6 Released
Slow and steady. That’s how I would describe the pace and progress around making SDDC.Lab version 6 the new default and recommended version of the project. If you’re not familiar with the SDDC.Lab project, it’s a collection of Ansible Playbooks that… 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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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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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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NSX Distributed Firewall – How To Get Started?
One of the great benefits of the NSX Distributed Firewall (DFW) is the flexibility it offers when it comes to developing security policy models. Implementation of the application intrinsic NSX DFW always begins with looking at the business needs and… Continue reading
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SDDC.Lab v5 Released
Finishing touches and testing is completed. We’re proud to announce that we’ve just released SDDC.Lab Version 5! For those of you that are not familiar with the SDDC.Lab project, it’s a collection of Ansible Playbooks that perform fully automated deployments… Continue reading
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