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  • Integrating TKG Service Clusters with NSX Security

    Organizations aiming to leverage NSX for securing their TKG Service Clusters (Kubernetes clusters) can now achieve this with relative ease. In this guide, I’ll walk you through configuring the integration between a TKG Service Cluster and NSX—a required step for… Continue reading

    Integrating TKG Service Clusters with NSX Security

  • 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

    SDDC.Lab v6 Released

  • Quick Tip: NSX Advanced Load Balancer for vSphere Tanzu with NSX Networking

    As of NSX version 4.1.1, NSX Advanced Load Balancer version 22.1.4, and vSphere with Tanzu version 8.0 Update 2 we have the option to leverage the NSX Advanced Load Balancer as the load balancer provider for new vSphere with Tanzu… Continue reading

    Quick Tip: NSX Advanced Load Balancer for vSphere Tanzu with NSX Networking

  • 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

    Configuring DPU-Based Acceleration for NSX

  • NSX Application Platform – Installation Notes

    A while back I needed to deploy the NSX Application Platform (NAPP) in my lab environment to demonstrate features like NSX Intelligence and the ones within NSX Advanced Threat Prevention (ATP). In my experience, deploying NAPP can be more or… Continue reading

    NSX Application Platform – Installation Notes

  • 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

    BGP EVPN Between NSX And VyOS – Part 2

  • 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

  • SDDC.Lab v3

    Last week we released version 3 of the SDDC.Lab project. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the project, it’s a set of Ansible scripts (Playbooks) that perform automated deployments of nested VMware SDDCs. An hour after you issue… Continue reading

  • HCX Your Way To NSX-T Overlay

    Happy New Year! 🙂 In the last two posts we had a look at two different methods for extending VLANs to NSX-T overlay. In the first post we configured a bridge which works well in scenarios where we the source… Continue reading

  • VPN Your Way To NSX-T Overlay

    In the previous article we had a look at how VLAN-connected workloads were migrated to NSX-T overlay by setting up a bridge between VLANs and NSX-T overlay segments. This works well in scenarios where layer 2 adjacency between source and… Continue reading