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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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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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Configuring NSX-T 3.0 Stretched Networking
NSX-T 3.0 comes with brand new features for logical networking in multisite environments. With NSX-T Federation the platform effectively receives a location-aware management, control, and data plane and this gives us, the implementers and architects, some very interesting new options… Continue reading
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Setting up VRF Lite in NSX-T 3.0
NSX-T version 3.0 brings a new routing construct to the table: VRF Lite. With VRF Lite we are able to configure per tenant data plane isolation all the way up to the physical network. Creating dedicated tenant Tier-0 Gateways for… Continue reading
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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
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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
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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
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