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Cloud Director: Distributed Firewalling with NSX-T

In the beginning of 2022, I attended the “VMware Cloud Director: Advanced Networking with NSX-T Data Center” training for VCD 10.2. The training touched on a couple of topics, that are blog worthy. Let’s start with the third one in this latest Cloud Director series. Previous ones in this series Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 4 monthsMarch 7, 2022 ago
Cloud Director

Cloud Director: Comparing Data Center Group network features

In the beginning of 2022, I attended the “VMware Cloud Director: Advanced Networking with NSX-T Data Center” training for VCD 10.2. The training touched on a couple of topics, that are blog worthy. Let’s start with the next one in this latest Cloud Director series. Other posts in this series Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 5 monthsFebruary 16, 2022 ago
Cloud Director

Cloud Director tidbits: DHCP Modes with NSX-T

In the beginning of 2022, I attended the “VMware Cloud Director: Advanced Networking with NSX-T Data Center” training for VCD 10.2. The training touched on a couple of topics, that are blog worthy. Other posts in this latest Cloud Director series are: Cloud Director: Comparing Data Center Group network features Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 5 monthsFebruary 9, 2022 ago
Networking

NSX-T Tidbits: Appliance root password reset made easy

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…

By Daniël Zuthof, 6 monthsJanuary 19, 2022 ago
Certification

VMware NSX-T Data Center 3.1 Security exam guide

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…

By Daniël Zuthof, 9 monthsOctober 14, 2021 ago
NSX-T Highlights
Networking

NSX-T Tidbits: IPv6 feature support

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…

By Daniël Zuthof, 1 yearMay 14, 2021 ago
NSX-T Highlights
Certification

VMware Advanced Design NSX-T Data Center 3.0 exam review

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…

By Daniël Zuthof, 2 yearsOctober 6, 2020 ago
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Cloud Director

Getting a Cloud Director TLS “A” Grade – Part 2

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…

By Daniël Zuthof, 2 yearsSeptember 1, 2020 ago
Cloud Director

Getting a Cloud Director TLS “A” Grade – Part 1

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…

By Daniël Zuthof, 2 yearsSeptember 1, 2020 ago
Cloud Director

Cloud Director NSX-T inter-tenant routing

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…

By Daniël Zuthof, 2 yearsJune 30, 2020 ago

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