NSX-T

VMware HCX Licensing

Following on the migration theme just recently, I’ve had a lot of queries over the past month related to VMware HCX licensing, so thought I’d pull this post together for reference. Remind me what is HCX again? VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension (HCX), in its own words is: “an application mobility platform, simplifies application migration, rebalances workloads and optimizes disaster recovery across data centers and clouds. HCX enables high-performance, large-scale app mobility across VMware vSphere and… Read More »VMware HCX Licensing

IDS and IPS in NSX-T

  • eleanor 

IDS and IPS in NSX-T IDS/IPS IDS stands for Intrusion Detection System and IPS stands for Intrusion Prevention System. It is what is says on the tin, it protects your environment from an attack. IDS is a system that monitors the traffic in case of an attack and In the event of this IPS will block the network traffic. In the newest release of NSX-T which was 3.0 this came with IDS with IPS following… Read More »IDS and IPS in NSX-T

NSX-T Federation Vs Multisite

  • eleanor 

NSX-T Federation Vs Multisite So we’ve all heard of NSX-T and the buzz surrounding Federation, what are the benefits of it and how does it relate to multisite. These are some of the questions I am going to try and answer. MultiSite From NSX-T 2.5 VMware introduced Multisite. In essence this is where you can manage multiple sites from one NSX manager node, this supports disaster recovery where one main site is used and the… Read More »NSX-T Federation Vs Multisite

NSX-T password expired SDDC Manager rotation fails

  • simon 

NSX-T password expired SDDC Manager rotation fails With VMware Cloud Foundation password management of SDDC components is handed off to the SDDC manager.  The SDDC manager can rotate the passwords for VMware components such as ESXi, Virtual Centre and NSX-T.  A very useful feature and a great way. of keeping admin and root accounts secure in the infrastructure.  So what happens when the rotation is perhaps missed and the NSX-T passwords expire? This is exactly… Read More »NSX-T password expired SDDC Manager rotation fails

Workload Management NSX-T 3 – Unable to access CLI tool download page

Workload Management NSX-T 3 – Unable to access CLI tool download page When deploying workload management into your vSphere infrastructure with NSX-T 3 you may encounter an issue where it is not possible to access the vSphere hosted site to download the kubectl-vsphere binary. The fix for this issue is documented in this VMware Cloud Foundation documentation As stated in the article when deploying Workload Management, the route maps created on the NSX-T Edge Tier-0… Read More »Workload Management NSX-T 3 – Unable to access CLI tool download page

VMware Cloud Foundation – Can’t deploy vRealize as no AVN is available

VMware Cloud Foundation – Can’t deploy vRealize as no AVN is available For reasons entirely of my own making when I deployed my current lab, I did not create the VCF AVN networks during deployment.  This wasn’t a problem at the time as I was focused on vSphere with kubernetes.  However, I did come to regret this just recently as in particular I wanted to deploy vROPs and explore the kubernetes integration that is available… Read More »VMware Cloud Foundation – Can’t deploy vRealize as no AVN is available