VMworld 2019 is happening tomorrow (It is already Saturday here) and as I am just about to embark on the 20+ hour journey from PER to SFO I thought it was better late than never to share my top session picks. Now with sessions available online it doesn’t really matter that the actual sessions are […] Read More
Orchestration of NSX by Terraform for Cloud Connect Replication with vCloud Director
That is probably the longest title i’ve ever had on this blog, however I wanted to highlight everything that is contained in this solution. Everything above works together to get the job done. The job in this case, is to configure an NSX Edge automatically using the vCloud Director Terraform provider to allow network connectivity […] Read More
NSX Bytes – What’s New in NSX-T 2.4
A little over two years ago in Feburary of 2017 VMware released NSX-T 2.0 and with it came a variety of updates that looked to continue to push NSX-T beyond that of NSX-v while catching up in some areas where the NSX-v was ahead. The NSBU has had big plans for NSX beyond vSphere for […] Read More
Released: NSX-v 6.4.4 Edges in HTML5 and Fixes
Last week VMware released NSX-v 6.4.4 (Build 11197766) that contains a some new features and addresses a number of resolved issues from previous releases. In recent times a lot of the focus has been on NSX-T as Kubernetes and Containers start to become more commonly discussed at the networking level and the fact that VMware […] Read More
Released – NSX-v 6.4.2 – What’s in it for Service Providers (Networking Enhancements)
The week before VMworld, VMware released version 6.4.2 (Build 9643711) of NSX-v. There is a lot of enhancements that Service Providers can take advantage of in this release. The focus seems to be on edge and distributed network services which translates to more power for service providers to create features upon while also meaning they […] Read More
Released: NSX-v 6.4.1 New Features and Fixes
Last week VMware released NSX-v 6.4.1 (Build 8599035) that contains a some new features and addresses a number of resolved issues from previous releases. I will go through the new features in more detail below however a key mentions is the fact that vSphere 6.7 is now supported, also meaning the vCloud Director can now […] Read More
Released: NSX-v 6.3.6
Last week VMware released NSX-v 6.3.6 (Build 8085122) that doesn’t contain any new features but addresses a number of bug fixes from previous releases. This has been done independently of any updated release of NSX-v 6.4.0 that went GA in January. This is good to see though interesting to also see that people are still […] Read More
NSX Bytes: Updated – NSX Edge Feature and Performance Matrix
For a few years now i’ve been compiling features and throughput numbers for NSX Edge Services Gateways. This started off comparing features and performance metrics between vShield Edges and NSX Edges. As the product evolves, so does it’s capabilities and given the last time I updated this was around the time of NSX-v 6.2 I thought […] Read More
NSX Bytes: NSX 6.4 UI Enhancements and Upgrade Coordinator
NSX-v 6.4 was released a couple of weeks ago and as I talked about in my launch post, there are a lot of new features and enhancements that make this release significant. A big focus for this release was around enhancing NSX’s ease of use and serviceability. There have been a number of additions to […] Read More
NSX-v 6.4.0 Released! What’s in it for Service Providers
This week VMware released NSX-v 6.4.0 (Build 7564187) and with it comes a new UI Plug-in for vSphere Client (HTML5) which includes some new dashboards including a new Update Lifecycle Manager built right into the Web Client. Reading through the release notes, for me the biggest improvements seem to be around NSX Edges and Edge […] Read More