When you’ve lost the root password of your NSX-T 3.x Manager, Edge or Cloud appliance (including 2.5.2+) things have gotten a lot easier. Nowadays a password reset method is now build into the Edge, Manager and Cloud Manager appliance. In the versions before 2.5.2, it was a pretty tedious procedure Read more…
After attending VMware EMPOWER earlier this year, I won a voucher for a free exam (thanks EMPOWER team!). I chose the NSX-T 3.1 Data Center Security exam because of personal interest and exciting security features NSX offers. While preparing for the exam I gathered a list of study materials I Read more…
In this IPv6 series I’d like to tell you about my “journey” to implement the protocol at home and in the lab. This part explains how IPv6 can be used with NSX-T in the datacenter. Expect the creation and / or configuration of T0 and T1 routers, Uplink configuration, Static Read more…
Today’s NSX-T topic is about automatically configuring hosts with IPv6 addresses. During the writing of my IPv6 series, I wondered what options are available in NSX-T and which use-cases they serve. The full list on IPv6 posts can be found here: IPv6 posts. In a IPv4 network, DHCP is used Read more…
In this part of the NSX-T tidbits series, it’s about the current IPv6 support. During the writing of my IPv6 series, I needed to know which features are currently support in the current (3.1) version and found out there isn’t a good overview of it. After digging into blog posts Read more…
In January I attended the NSX-T 2.4 Install, Configure and Manager (ICM) course. The course itself was great and gave me thorough knowledge of the product. By attending the course, all pieces of the puzzle fell together and I was impressed with the product so far. Although NSX-T was not Read more…
In part 1 of this blog post, I wrote about the background of TLS. In this second part I show you how VCD (VMware Cloud Director) and often also the Load Balancer can be configured to enhance security, integrity and page speed. In this multi-part series I hope you benefit Read more…
The Let’s Encrypt certificate I use for the Cloud Director portal running in my lab environment expired lately, therefore a renewal was needed. While renewing the certificate and checking my TLS config, it was not up to par with modern standards and that needed for be fixed. While writing down Read more…
Todays topic is VMware Cloud Director inter-tenant routing with a NSX-T backed provider VDCs (pVDC). The reason for writing this post is that some use-cases require routed connectivity between Org VDCs that may or may not be part of the same Org. Due to the multi-tenant nature of VCD, most Read more…
Background In this post I want to share with you the possibilities to remove problematic ESXi based Transport Nodes running NSX-T 2.4+ manually from NSX Manager. Especially including the nodes NSX configuration and accompanying VIBs. To be clear, this should be your last resort option if the regular procedures to Read more…