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Category Archives: NSX
vRealize Network Insight with E/W or N/S
tl/dr: RFC1918 (private) addresses are categorized as E/W by VRNI by default, non-RFC1918 (public) addresses are categorized as N/S by default. You can flag private as N/S or public as E/W to ensure the reports reflect your environment. Looking over the … Continue reading
VMWorld 2018: Tuesday
The keynote was nice as a client was on stage talking about the success of an implementation I helped with. Cool stuff. Then Sanjay talked to Malala Yousafzai which was pretty amazing. Makes me wish I brought my daughters to VMworld. … Continue reading
Posted in API, Certification, Network, NSX, Virtualization, VMware Tagged NSX, PKS, vmworld Leave a comment
NSX-T a.k.a NSX Cloud API tips and tricks
NSX-T has lots of interesting capabilities, but due to the rapid development and release cycle many are only available via API calls right now. Making a request While the NSX-T documentation has some nice examples such as: Configure an L2VPN … Continue reading
NSX: Upgrading to 6.4.0 from 6.3.x with a Control VM HA IP configured
tl/dr: If you upgrade from NSX 6.3.x to 6.4.0 make sure you remove the Control VM HA IP if it is set. Note that I have checked this with DLR and UDLRs. So I wrote about this the other day … Continue reading
NSX 6.4 DLR HA changes
tl/dr: Enable HA during DLR deployment, don’t specify an HA IP address (if prompted), use a unique logical switch for HA. Edits: Some info from VMware below. Also, if you are upgrading from 6.3 I would remove the HA IP … Continue reading
VMware on AWS Quick Hits
vSphere plus SDDC Manager (VMware Cloud Foundation) plus NSX-V hosted on bare-metal at AWS. VMware manages hardware account and bills you (separate from any AWS account you have) 4 nodes to start – each 2 socket/36 core, 512GB RAM, … Continue reading
VMware NSX-T Quick Hits
NSX-T(ransformers) is a multi-hypervisor (ESX/KVM) cousin of NSX-V. Same SKU (if you own NSX-V 6.x, you own NSX-T 2.x). One NSX-T Manager can have multiple vCenters as “Compute endpoints” Standalone HTML5 client (not WebClient) NSX-T Edges can be VMs or … Continue reading
Posted in Network, NSX, Security, Virtualization, VMware Tagged networking, NSX, NSX-T Leave a comment
Migrate VMs between portgroups/virtual switches/vSS/vDS
I wrote this to help a client migrate to VXLAN from portgroups. It pulls from a CSV file named c:\scripts\ImportPortGroups.csv which is structured: VLAN,PortGroup,wire 123,dVLAN 123,192.168.123.0/24 and accepts the initial number (VLAN) as a commandline parameter such as: changeportgroups 123 … Continue reading
Posted in NSX, PowerShell, Scripting, Virtualization, VMware Tagged migration, NSX, powercli, vSphere Leave a comment
NSX, BGP, ECMP quick hits
When configuring NSX, BGP and ECMP there are a few configuration requirements you need to keep in mind: BGP neighbors ESG Firewall must be disabled BGP Timers BGP Graceful Restart Static Routes on the ESGs Static Routes on the DLR … Continue reading
Checking NSX DFW rules and rule sets
The new VMware Docs page has a cheatsheet of CLI commands but here’s what you need to list the rules enforced on a VMs vnic. SSH to NSX Manager {Note that you can enable SSH if needed from the “Summary” page … Continue reading
Posted in CLI, Firewall, Network, NSX, Virtualization, VMware Tagged CLI, firewall, NSX Leave a comment
