NSX Edge vs vShield Edge Series: Part 1 FEATURE AND PERFORMANCE MATRIX Part 2 HIGH AVAILABILITY Part 3 IPSEC AND L2 VPN Part 4 GENERATING SELF SIGNED SSL CERTIFICATES Part 5 SSL VPN-PLUS Part 6 SYSLOG CONFIGURATION
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
NSX Bytes: NSX Edge – High Availability Status Down
In doing some testing around NSX Edge deployment scenarios I came across a small quirk in the High Availability Config for the NSX Edge Gateway where by after configuring HA from either the Web Client of through the Rest API you will see the High Availability Status as Down in the Web Client even though […] Read More
NSX Bytes: NSX-v 6.1.5 Released
Last week NSX-v 6.1.5 (Build 3102213) was released…This is a minor point release but does resolve a number of bugs present from previous 6.1.x builds and introduces one new feature into the Web Client: Controller connectivity status: NSX Manager user interface is enhanced to display the connectivity status between NSX controllers in the controller cluster. […] Read More
NSX Bytes: Testing VXLAN Tunnel End Points between ESXi Hosts
When working with NSX you have the option to create logical switches that are bound by Transport Zones…within those Transport Zones you could have a single vSphere Cluster or a number of Clusters that may or may not span different VLANs or Subnets. For those that have created NSX Logical Switches that span multiple clusters […] Read More
NSX Bytes: Migrating NSX Edges Between Clusters….The Right Way
Had a situation pop up today where an NSX Edge needed to be moved from it’s current location to another location due to an initial VM placement issue. The VM was being moved within the bounds of the NSX Transport Zone so no issues with it being out of scope… At first the VM was […] Read More
NSX Bytes: NSX 6.2 GA and NSX Manager Upgrade
NSX for vSphere version 6.2 was made Generally Available earlier today and there has been some significant updates and improvements to the Network Virtualization Platform from the 6.1.x releases. Most of the improvements revolve around the cross vCenter functionality and enhances to the Distributed features and dynamic routing. There are also a number of operational […] Read More
NSX Bytes: Unable to Remove Logical Switch: Resources are still in use
I came across an situation today where I was doing a clean up of Logical Switches in my NSX Lab where I was unable to remove a logical switch due to it apparently still being in use. Not a very helpful error however this was due to the fact I had provisioned a few NSX Edges and vShield […] Read More
NSX Bytes: API Response Times and User Accounts
If there is one thing that working with NSX has done is drag me kicking and screaming into the world of APIs. Apart from being on the VCIX-NV Blueprint, in my current role it was becoming increasingly important to understand how our developers consume and manipulate the automation of our products and services…just being able to do […] Read More
NSX Bytes: 6.1.3 Upgrade and vSphere 6.0
Earlier today NSX-v 6.1.3 was released. This update brings vSphere 6.0 Support as well as bug fixes and a couple minor feature enhancements. https://www.vmware.com/support/nsx/doc/releasenotes_nsx_vsphere_613.html There is a warning in the release notes: NSX vSphere 6.1.3 is compatible with vSphere 6.0. However, the new vSphere features introduced in vSphere 6.0 have not been tested with NSX […] Read More