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  • Bridge Your Way To NSX-T Overlay

    Organizations implementing NSX-T overlay have several options when it comes to migrating existing VLAN-connected workloads to NSX-T overlay segments. Common methods include re-IP’ing or re-deploying workloads to a new IP space allocated to NSX-T logical networking. It gives the workload… Continue reading

  • Automate Ubuntu Server 20.04 Installation with Ansible

    And now something completely different. Recently, while working on a project, I had to come up with a way to automate Ubuntu Server 20.04 VM installations on vSphere. Utilizing Ubuntu’s new autoinstall method together with some Ansible code I managed… Continue reading

  • 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

  • NSX: Bridging between VXLAN and VLAN

    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… Continue reading

  • A simple NSX-V load balancer lab

    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… Continue reading