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Bulk Create NSX-T Segments Using A Postman Data File
Imagine this, you’ve been tasked with implementing micro-segmentation in your vSphere environment. You just deployed and configured NSX-T and the next step is to migrate VMs from their VDS port groups to N-VDS segments. You fire up the vSphere Client… 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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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
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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
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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
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NSX-T Recoverability – Part 1
Like everything else in life, stuff can break in your NSX-T environment too. When that happens it’s important to understand how to get things back on track again. In the following blog articles I’m going through a couple of NSX-T… Continue reading
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VMware Advanced Design NSX-T Data Center 2.4 Exam Review
On August 30th 2019 I passed the brand new VMware Advanced Design NSX-T Data Center 2.4 exam. Let me tell you a little more about this exam and how I prepared for it. About the exam As far as I… Continue reading
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VMware Professional NSX-T Data Center 2.4 Exam Review
I recently passed the Professional NSX-T Data Center 2.4 (2V0-41.19) exam and in this short post I would like to share my experience with the exam and some recommendations for preparing for the exam. About the exam As with all… Continue reading
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NSX-T Data Path Visibility – Part 3
Hi and welcome back. We’re looking into the NSX-T data path and investigating different points at which we can capture network traffic. You may remember from part one that virtual machine “app01” (172.16.2.50) is trying to ping another virtual machine called “web01”… Continue reading
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NSX-T Data Path Visibility – Part 2
Welcome back! We’re looking at how to gain visibility at different points in the NSX-T data path. You may remember from part one that virtual machine “app01” (172.16.2.50) is trying to ping another virtual machine called “web01” (172.16.1.53), but it’s… Continue reading
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