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Category Archives: Virtualization
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 AppDefense Quick Hits
Brought to you by the NSBU at VMware, home of NSX-V, NSX-T, VRNI. Cloud-based with a local “proxy” (assuming local need). Developer-focuses with tie-ins to development stream to track changes. Supports Windows 2012, 2012R2, 2016 with *nix support coming. Loads … 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
VMware Cloud Foundation Quick Hits
VMware Cloud Foundation consists of VMware vSphere, vSAN, NSX and “SDDC Manager”. SDDC Manager will manage the lifecycle of the different components of VCF and can also manage the lifecycle of “add-ons” like VMware Horizon, VMware vRealize Suite, vRealize Operations … Continue reading
Free NSX books from VMware
VMware NSX Micro-segmentation: Day 1 Guide VMware NSX Micro-segmentation: Day 2 Guide VMware Operationalizing NSX Automating NSX for vSphere with PowerNSX
VMware badges – 2017 edition (vROps / vSAN)
[Edit: Added time/#Qs to vSAN after someone tried it and responded to me] VMware certification has announced a series of “badges” that existing VCPs can add to demonstrate knowledge in either vROps or vSAN. vSAN was announced last week Right … Continue reading
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
