The Problem This might sound a bit strange, I mean why would you want to do that? Well this requirement came up during a vCNS to NSX upgrade in a vCD environment. In particular when hosts needed to be put into maintenance mode to allow the new VIBs to be installed/upgraded.
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Lately I have been working for a Service Provider (SP) helping them migrating several vCloud Director (vCD) 5.x instances from vCloud Networking and Security (vCNS) 5.5 to NSX. In case you missed the news, vCNS 5.5 went EOGS (End of Global Support) 19 September 2016 hence the reason many customers have rushed (or are still rushing) to […]
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The title says it all: how do you get the vCNS/NSX Manager Edge ID from vCloud Director? vCNS/NSX Manager edge IDs are formatted as <edge-n> for instance edge-202 whereas vCD edge IDs are expressed in URN format for instance urn:vcloud:vapp:490af534-1491-452e-8ed6-a5eb54447dac of which the numeric part is also used to build the Href object reference;
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VMware NSX 6.2.3 has been released on 09-June 2016, see the Release notes – What’s new section. One big new feature introduced is the support for 3rd-party hardware L2 gateway integration, useful for instance when migrating physical workloads into an “NSX enabled” environment (don’t forget the controllers see issue 1477280).
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