vxlan
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A small lab using containerlab and FRR to test the VCF 9.1 distributed connection model with BGP EVPN over VXLAN, focusing on Route Controller peering and control-plane visibility before testing against a physical EVPN fabric.
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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 that everything is working as intended. Lab Overview The lab environment for this exercise consists…
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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 was capable of a somewhat more advanced feature like BGP EVPN. It took some research…
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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…
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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…