NSX Bytes – What’s new in NSX-T 2.1

In Feburary of this year VMware released NSX-T 2.0 and with it came a variety of updates that looked to continue to push of NSX-T beyond that of NSX-v while catching up in some areas where the NSX-v was ahead. The NSBU has big plans for NSX beyond vSphere and during the NSX vExpert session we saw […] Read More

Released: NSX-v 6.3.5 and New Features and Fixes

Last week VMware released NSX-v 6.3.5 (Build 7119875) that contains a few new features and addresses a number of bug fixes from previous releases. Going through the release notes there are a lot of known issues that should be known and there are more than a few that apply to service providers…specifically there are a […] Read More

Awarded vExpert Cloud – A New vExpert Sub Program

Last week Corey Romero announced the inaugural members of the vExpert Cloud sub-program. This is the third vExpert sub-program following the vSAN and NSX programs announced last year. There are 135 initial vExpert Cloud members who have been awarded the title. As it so happens I am now a member of all three which reflects on […] Read More

Released: NSX-v 6.3.4 and Upgrade Notes and Fixes

Last week VMware released NSX-v 6.3.4 (Build 6845891) that contains no specific new features but addresses a couple of bug fixes from previous releases. Going through the release notes there are a lot of known issues that should be known and there are more than a few that apply to service providers…specifically there are a lot […] Read More

NSX Bytes: NSX-v 6.3.3 Released – Upgrade Notes and Enhancements

Last week VMware released NSX-v 6.3.3 (Build 6276725) and with it comes a new operating system for the NSX Controllers. Once upgraded the new controllers will be powered by Photon OS which is more and more making it’s way into VMware’s appliances. There are a few other new bits in this release but more importantly […] Read More

NSX Bytes: NSX-T 2.0 Released

A couple of months ago in my NSX-v 6.3 and NSX-T 1.1 release post I focused around NSX-v features as that has become the mainstream version that most people know and work with…however NSX, in it’s Nicira roots has always been about multi-hypervisor and has always had an MH version that worked with Openstack deployments. The NSBU has […] Read More

NSX Bytes: NSX-v 6.3 Host Preparation Fails with Agent VIB module not installed

NSX-v 6.3 was released last week with an impressive list of new enhancements and I wasted no time in looking to upgrades my NestedESXi lab instance from 6.2.5 to 6.3 however I ran into an issue that at first I thought was related to a previous VIB upgrade issue caused by VMware Update Manager not being available […] Read More

NSX Bytes: NSX for vSphere 6.3 and NSX-T 1.1 Release Information

VMware’s NSX has been in the wild for almost three years and while the initial adoption was slow, of recent times there has been a calculated push to make NSX more mainstream. The change in licensing that happened last year has not only been done to help drive adoption by traditional VMware customers running vSphere that […] Read More

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