Last week VMware released version 6.2.2 of NSX-v. The 6.2.2 release is mainly aimed at patching a security hole in the glibc libraries as well as removing a constraint with the DHCP Pool setup allowing .local domains in the config and improving the user experience when configuring the Distributed Firewall. Once following the standard NSX Upgrade […] Read More
Learning VMware NSX: Special Discount Offer
Continuing on from post earlier on the week on the release of the new Learning VMware NSX Book by Ranjit Singh and reviewed by myself @jfrappier…the guys at Packt Publishing are offering readers of this post a 50% discount on the book. So if you are looking to grab a copy, you have until the 4th of March […] Read More
New Book: Learning VMware NSX
Last year I was asked by @rjapproves if I would be interested in reviewing a book he was writing on VMware’s NSX-v platform. Ranjit approached me and was interested in having me as a technical reviewer based on the blog content I had done around NSX as part of the NSX Bytes series as well as the […] Read More
vCloud Air Rumours – vCAN in Focus…Again | VMware Rethinks Strategy
Well…the news isn’t great filtering out over the internets about the VMware Job Cuts and the apparent clipping of vCloud Air’s wings. While this is yet to be 100% confirmed nor are there any specifics about what it actually means for the vCloud Air Network. If what I am reading is true and no more […] Read More
Heads Up: Heavy VXLAN Traffic Causing Broadcom 10GB NICS to Drop
For the last couple of weeks we have had some intermittent issues where by ESXi network adapters have gone into a disconnected state requiring a host reboot to bring the link back online. Generally it was only one NIC at a time, but in some circumstances both NICs went offline resulting in host failure and […] Read More
NSX Bytes: No NSX Managers Listed in Web Client After vCenter Certificate Upgrade
Certificates and VMware don’t have a great history and there are a lot of posts out there centered around people’s struggles with vCenter, Lookup Service or Web Client Certificate management. I’ve recently had a little fun with a revoked vCenter certificate (thanks Symantec) that required replacement. Without going into the details of the pain I went […] Read More
The Power of Network Automation: How a Huge Low Turned into a Great High!
A few weeks back at Zettagrid we released our NSX Advanced Networking product that we have been working on for the best part of 12 months. I’m particularly proud of this release as it represents a significant realisation of a vision myself and others have had in trying to integrate NSX into the Zettagrid IaaS platform. Furthermore the […] Read More
NSX 6.2 now Supported on vCloud Director SP 8.0
In what is welcome news for vCloud Air Service Providers that have integrated or are looking to integrate NSX-v into their offerings, NSX-v 6.2 is now officially supported in vCloud Director 8.0 as shown by the VMware Product Interoperability Matrix below. Prior to this update I had tested (without issue) running vCD 8.0 and NSX 6.2 […] Read More
Released: NSX Advanced Networking
Today is a great day for Zettagrid…we have officially released our NSX Advanced Networking feature that extends the networking functionality of our vCloud Based Virtual Datacenter product. The release is as significant as our initial vCloud Director offering which was the first in the ANZ market in offering a fully automated vCloud Power IaaS offering. […] Read More
NSX Edge vs vShield Edge: Part 5 – SSL VPN-PLUS
Overview: The SSL VPN-Plus feature has been around since the VSE 5.x days and as I’ve found out was possibly the best underused feature of the VSE. Contributing to it’s lack of use was the fact that the functionality was not exposed via vCloud Director so one of the best use cases for the SSL VPN remained […] Read More