Tag Archives: NSX

Stretch Management Domain in VCF 5.1.1
In this article, we’ll guide you through the process of stretching a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) management domain across two availability zones, enhancing your infrastructure’s resilience and ensuring continuous availability. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll have a solid understanding of how to configure and manage a stretched VCF deployment to protect your critical…

Deploy Edge Cluster in a Workload Domain in VCF 5.1.1
Once you have a Management Domain or a VI Workload Domain, you can deploy an Edge cluster from the SDDC Manager. The SDDC Manager will initiate the deployment and configuration of the Edge cluster, resulting in a fully configured and operational Edge cluster in less than an hour, depending on your hardware. Add Edge Cluster…

Configure IPSec VPN tunnels with terraform in Cloud Director 10.x
In my previous blog post, I showed you how to configure IPSec VPN tunnels from within the Cloud Director GUI. But what if you want to automate this repetitive task? In this blog post I will explain how you can achieve this with Terraform. Configuring and maintaining the IPSec VPN tunnels will become more easy…

Configure IPSec VPN tunnels in Cloud Director 10.x
This is a quick blog post on how to configure IPSec VPN tunnels in Cloud Director with a NSX-T backed Edge node. To get this working, we need to configure the remote endpoint with the matching IPSec VPN configurations as in Cloud Director. Requirements In order to configure a site to site IPSec VPN tunnel…

Analyzing NSX-T network flows with NSX Intelligence
Ever wonder how to analyze the flow of an application on a NSX-T logical segment? There are a few ways to do so, but in this blog post we will use NSX Intelligence. We can eventually use the recommendations to create firewall rules in NSX-T to secure the application. Requirements NSX-T environment configured with Edges…
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How to migrate NSX-V to NSX-T 3.2.0.1 with the Migration Coordinator [Fixed topology]
Ever needed to migrate NSX-V to NSX-T? During this post, i’m going to break down the steps for migrating a NSX-V Data Center Environment to NSX-T. This migration is based on one of the available fixed topologies in the NSX Migration Coördinator. Update 28-5-2023: I have published a new blog post that covers the User…

How to successfully upgrade NSX-T from 3.1.0 to 3.1.1
VMware did a great job with simplifying the upgrade proces of all the NSX-T components. Today I will demonstrate how to perform an upgrade of a NSX-T environment from NSX-T 3.1.0 to NSX-T 3.1.1. VMware docs: Upgrading NSX-T Data Center Upgrade NSX-T Data Center Prerequisites Check the VMware product interoperability matrices: link Download the NSX-T…

Unable to delete a segment in NSX-T 3.x because of an orphaned logical port
In my home lab, I was unable to delete a NSX-T segment because of a logical switch port that was occupied by an orphaned VM. In this blog post, I will show you how to detach/delete the logical port with a simple API call. Summary A while ago, I was testing the HCX product from…

My presentation at vMA/vNSTechcon 2020
vNSTechCon is a dutch VMware event that take place once per year in the Netherlands. The event is based on two tracks: vMA (Management & Automation) and vNS (Network & Security). The setup of the event was this year a little bit different. Because of the current virus outbreak (Covid-19) the event took place online….

Configure a NSX-T overlay network on a Windows 2016 bare metal server.
In this article, I will show you how to prepare your Windows 2016 bare metal server to be configured as an transport node in NSX-T and how to configure a NSX-T overlay segment on a Windows 2016 server bare metal server. By configuring your bare metal server as a transport node, you will be able…