Welcome back! In part two we deployed the data plane for the East-West traffic in our cross-vCenter NSX environment. In this part we continue with the setting up the components for the North-South traffic. Current state A quick look at the current state of our cross-vCenter NSX lab environment. The management plane and the control … Continue reading Cross-vCenter NSX – Part 3
One of those scenarios where the NSX platform really shines is in multi-site environments. Here NSX together with vSphere is the infrastructure that delivers on business requirements like workload mobility, resource pooling, and consistent security. Since NSX version 6.2 we can roll out NSX in a vSphere environment managed by more than one vCenter system. … Continue reading Cross-vCenter NSX – Part 1
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 network virtualization. It's simple enough, right? But then you realize you still have other virtual … Continue reading NSX: Bridging between VXLAN and VLAN
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 in case you want to play around with the logical load balancer or any of … Continue reading A simple NSX-V load balancer lab
