network virtualization

  • NSX-TNSX-T-vs-NSX-V-Differences-and-Similarities

    NSX-T vs NSX-V Differences and Similarities

    When it comes to network virtualization in the enterprise datacenter, there is no better solution on the market currently than VMware’s NSX network virtualization platform. VMware NSX has certainly changed over the past few years. One of the changes that…

  • NSX-TUpgrading-NSX-T-2.4-to-2.5-Step-by-Step

    Upgrading NSX-T 2.4 to 2.5 Step-by-Step

    With the release of NSX-T 2.5, I have been ready to get the upgrade on my current NSX-T environment. There are many great new features with NSX-T 2.5 that make it a very worthy upgrade from previous installations of NSX-T.…

  • NSX-TWhat-is-VMware-NSX-T-Manager-Unified-Appliance-and-Installation

    What is VMware NSX-T Manager Unified Appliance and Installation

    Recently, I have been doing a lot of NSX labbing in the home lab environment, between NSX-V and starting to lab with NSX-T as well. NSX-T certainly seems to be the direction that VMware will be heading with the NSX…

  • NSXInstalling-vRealize-Network-Insight-4.0-Platform-and-Proxy-appliances

    Installing vRealize Network Insight 4.0 Platform and Proxy Appliances

    The installation of the vRealize Network Insight 4.0 Platform is fairly straightforward and involves provisioning and configuring two appliances in the environment that allow collecting and analyzing the network information via traffic flows that are collected and analyzed. In this…

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    What is VMware NSX SpoofGuard

    VMware NSX includes many great features that help to bolster an organization’s security posture at a network level.  It allows the abstracting of network and security functionality from the underlying physical network infrastructure.  We often talk about microsegmentation with VMware…

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    VMUG Advantage EvalExperience adds VMware NSX

    We had written a blurb just a little while ago about the hinting of the addition of VMware NSX to VMUG Advantage EvalExperience.  This was an exciting rumbling as it has been a highly requested addition that would simply sweeten…

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    Change VMware NSX IP Pools after creating

    In working with VMware NSX, one of the obscure little things you may run into after setting up IP Pools within the NSX configuration screens is changing a particular IP Pool.  Static IP Pools are created if you want to…

  • NSXupnsxman01

    Upgrading VMware NSX Manager to 6.3.1

    With the release of VMware NSX 6.3, we now have NSX compatibility with vSphere 6.5a and higher. Recently released was the upgrade patch to upgrade to NSX 6.3.1 which is mostly a bug fix release with specific customer bugs. In…

  • VMwarensxconerror01

    There was an error connecting to NSX manager API

    A quick issue I ran into yesterday connecting a restful API client to an NSX manager – “there was an error connecting”.  As I had connected to this manager before using an API client, I knew that it was accessible…