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 […]
Read More →
Quick note just to say that I am happy to announce that I’ve made it to the vExpert NSX 2016 list see http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/2016/08/vexpert-nsx-2016-award-announcement.html for the public announcement.
Read More →
In this post I’m covering: NSX Edge Gateway “abc” Scaling Installation Configuration NSX Edge Service Gateway primer In the previous post we’ve seen how to DLR works, how to install and configure it. The NSX Edge Gateway is the upper layer (DLR’s next hop) the perimeter to the “external world” from a tenant’s perspective. To make few […]
Read More →
So we have NSX Manager deployed and running. It’s now time to prepare the compute cluster(s) for network virtualization. Summarising what we need to complete: Deploy the NSX Controller(s) Host preparation: that is, install the NSX vib modules into the cluster(s) Configure VXLAN VTEP IP Pools Configure Segment ID pool Configure Global Transport Zone Configure […]
Read More →