NSX

  • NSXvrni22
    Brandon LeeJune 27, 2017
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    What is VMware vRNI and How to Install

    With the recent announcement from VMUG that the NSX offering includes VMware vRNI, you may be asking yourself if you are a VMUG subscriber – What is VMware vRNI?  VMware NSX is a powerful SDN solution that has been transforming…

  • NSXvmugvrni02
    Brandon LeeJune 7, 2017
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    VMUG VMware vRNI bundled with NSX offering

    As we had posted a while back, VMUG Advantage Evalexperience had seriously sweetened the already sweet deal of the Advantage subscription by adding in VMware NSX to the mix. This was the real major remaining piece to round out the…

  • NSXnsxdom01a
    Brandon LeeMay 10, 2017
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    Add VMware NSX Identity Source Domain

    VMware NSX is a powerful tool to not only abstract your virtual networking from the underlying physical infrastructure, but also secure your environment.  As we had shown in the previous post, we can easily create firewall rules to restrict access…

  • NSXnsxfirehome01
    Brandon LeeMay 8, 2017
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    Secure Home Lab DMZ network with VMware NSX firewall

    With the recent announcement from VMUG that Advantage subscribers now have access to VMware NSX, it opens up a lot of possibilities for the VMware home lab environments out there.  VMware NSX has a ton of network security benefits that…

  • VMwarevmugnsx01
    Brandon LeeApril 13, 2017
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    VMUG Advantage EvalExperience NSX package hinted

    I was excited to see that a recent update from VMUG I received a couple of days ago hinted at the possibility of VMware NSX being included in a future “package” of the VMUG EvalExperience membership.  This is exciting news…

  • NSXnsxpool01-1
    Brandon LeeMarch 30, 2017
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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
    Brandon LeeMarch 10, 2017
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    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…

  • NSXnsxjumbo04
    Brandon LeeSeptember 9, 2016
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    Troubleshooting NSX VXLAN jumbo frames in nested lab

    In working recently in a nested VMware environment running three clusters and NSX, I ran into a jumbo frames issue with VXLAN connectivity across the clusters.  I was simulating different WAN/subnet environments using an Untangle appliance as a router in…

  • VMwarensxconerror01
    Brandon LeeSeptember 1, 2016
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    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…

  • Computersnsxedit02
    Brandon LeeAugust 2, 2016
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    Change VMware NSX Controller Settings

    If you are looking into NSX especially in a lab environment, the resource requirements for the NSX virtual infrastructure is quite costly.  Especially with high availability, you are looking at steep memory and CPU requirements.  Also, if you look to edit…