Many, including myself thought that the day would never come where we would be talking about a new UI for vCloud Director…but a a month on from the 8.20 release of vCloud Director SP (which was the 8th major release of vCD) I’m happy to be writing about the new Advanced Networking features of 8.20 based on NSX-v. […] 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
NSX Bytes: Important Bug in 6.2.4 to be Aware of
[UPDATE] In light of this post being quoted on The Register I wanted to clarify a couple of things. First off, as mentioned there is a fix for this issue (the KB should be rewritten to clearly state that) and secondly, if you read below, you will see that I did not state that just about anyone running […] Read More
NSX Bytes: Updated – NSX Edge Feature and Performance Matrix
A question came up today around throughput numbers for an NSX Edge Services Gateway and that jogged my memory back to a previous blog post where I compared features and performance metrics between vShield Edges and NSX Edges. In the original post I had left out some key metrics, specifically around firewall and load balance throughput […] Read More
First Look: vRealize Network Insight (Arkin)
Last year Arkin burst onto the scene offering a solution that focused on virtual and physical deep network analytics. Arkin was recognised at VMworld 2015 by nearly taking out the best of show and fast forward twelve months, Arkin was acquired by VMware with the product later rebadged as vRealize Network Insight. One of the products main strengths that attracted VMware into making […] Read More
NSX Bytes: vCloud Director Can’t Deploy NSX Edges
Over the weekend I was tasked with the recovery of a #NestedESXi lab that had vCloud Director and NSX-v components as part of the lab platform. Rather than being a straight forward restore from the Veeam backup I also needed to downgrade the NSX-v version from 6.2.4 to 6.1.4 for testing purposes. That process was […] Read More
NSX Bytes: NSX-v 6.2.4 Released …Important Upgrade!
NSX-v 6.2.4 was released the week before VMworld US so might have gotten somewhat lost in the VMworld noise…For those that where fortunate enough to not upgrade to or deploy a greenfield 6.2.3 site you can now safely do so without the nasty bugs that existed in the 6.2.3 build. In a nutshell this new build delivers all the significant […] Read More
NSX Bytes: 6.1.x General Support Extended and 6.2.3 Edge Upgrade Issues
A while ago VMware announced that NSX-v general support would come to an end on this October to pave the way for current 6.1.x users to upgrade to 6.2.x. A problem has arisen in that people who patched NSX-v to the latest patch release 6.1.7 to cover a security venerability are left being unable to […] Read More
Released: NSX 6.2.3 – Packed Full Of New Features!
Last week VMware released NSX-v 6.2.3 Build 3979471 and it’s anything but your standard point release. Running through the list off the release notes this could have easily been a major dot release. In good news for vCloud Air Network Service Providers there have been some major enhancements to the Edge Services Gateways which adds availability […] Read More