NSX BGP Path Prepending
Nick I was recently working with a customer who was looking for a design and deploy of a multi site NSX environment. The premise of the design was simple at it’s…
August 2023
vCenter Upgrade
Ray Recently installed vCenter 8, and while poking around, I noticed the vCenter upgrade and noticed few nice features for vCenter upgrade in the UI Select available update. The new pop-up…
NSX-T series Part 8 – Network information for Part 1 to 7
Kader The network information for the previous NSX-T series from Part 1 to 7. NSX-T Managers nsxtmgr01.vmware.local – 172.168.1.134/24 nsxtmgr02.vmware.local – 172.168.1.135/24 nsxtmgr03.vmware.local – 172.168.1.136/24 nsxtmgr.vmware.local (VIP) – 172.168.1.133/24 Dns –…
NSX-T series Part 7 – Create edge segment, T0, T1
Description A segment is a logical switch that VMs can connect to. A tier-1 gateway routes traffic between segments. A tier-0 gateway connects tier-1 gateways to a physical router so…
NSX-T series Part 6 – Deploy Edges and create edge cluster.
Description Edge nodes do things like North/South routing, load balancing, DHCP, VPN, NAT among other things. Key information VLAN 300 is management network. VLAN 63 is my edge TEP network.…
vCenter 8 – patch, minor upgrade, update
I am upgrading from vCenter 8.0.0.10200 to 8.0.1.00300 ‘8.0u1c’ so going to update 1 version of vCenter 8. Remember to backup your vCenter and have a window as it will…
NSX-T series Part 5 – Create Uplink profiles, transport zone, host node profile and assign to cluster.
1. Create transport zone for overlay and vlan 2. Create two uplink profiles for edge and hosts 3. Create Host Node profile and assign to ESXi cluster Key information one…
NSX-T series Part 4 – Configure vds
You can use existing vds or create a new one, MTU has to be 1600 or higher. It will be used for your overlay network. I will use two port…
NSX-T series Part 3 – Add additional NSX-T Managers and Add Virtual IP (VIP)
Login to NSX-T Manager > Click system > click appliances > click add nsx appliance. Enter FQDN of your second NSX-T manager – nsxtmgr02.vmware.local Select IPv4 Type in the IP…
NSX-T series Part 2 – NSX-T manager 4.1 – Add license key and Add a vCenter server
Add license Login to NSX-T Manager > Click system > Click licenses under settings > Click Add license > Enter key > Click Add Add vCenter Login to NSX-T Manager…