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
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 6.2.3 and vShield Endpoint Clarification
NSX-v 6.2.3 has been out for a couple of weeks now and besides the new features and bug fixes there was a significant change to the licensing structure for NSX. Previously there really wasn’t any concept of NSX editions…however 6.2.3 introduced four new tiers. As was announced early May NSX-v comes in Standard, Enterprise and […] Read More
NSX Bytes: Critical Update for NSX-v and vCNS
I generally don’t post around security releases but after going through the notes on CVE-2016-2079 I thought it was important enough to dedicate a post around. Mainly because it could impact those running NSX Edge Services Gateways or vShield Edges with the SSL-VPN service enabled for clients. Most vCloud Director based instances won’t have the […] Read More
Important – vCNS and NSX End of Availability and Support Notifications
For a while now we have known that vCloud Networking and Security’s days where numbered…with the release of NSX as a replacement+ product it had been communicated to current vCNS customers that an upgrade to NSX-v would be on the cards to ensure continued support and functionality. The date has now been set for the EOA […] 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 Edge vs vShield Edge: Part 3 – IPsec and L2 VPN
Overview: NSX and vShield Edges support site to site IPSec VPN between Edge instances and remote sites. Behind each remote VPN router, you can configure multiple subnets to connect to the internal network behind an Edge through IPSec tunnels. These subnets and the internal network behind the Edges must have address ranges that do not overlap. You […] Read More
NSX Edge vs vShield Edge: Part 2 – High Availability
Overview: High Availability in both VSE and NSX Edges ensures Edge Network Services are always available by deploying a pair of Edge Appliances that work together in an active/passive HA cluster Pair. The primary appliance is in the active state and the secondary appliance is in the standby state. The configuration of the primary appliance is replicated […] Read More
NSX Edge vs vShield Edge: Part 1 – Feature and Performance Matrix
I was having a discussion internally about why we where looking to productize the NSX Edges for our vCloud Director Virtual Datacenter offering over the existing vCNS vShield Edges. A quick search online didn’t come up with anything concrete so I’ve decided to list out the differences as concisely as possible. This post will go through […] Read More
NSX vCloud Retrofit: Upgrade Issue – Edge Gateway Unmanageable in vCloud Director or Deployment Fails
We have been working with VMware GSS on an issue for a number of weeks whereby we were seeing some vShield Edge devices go into an unmanageable state from within the vCloud Director Portal. In a nutshell some VSEs (version 5.5.3) where stuck in a Configuring Loop upon the committal of a Service Config change. […] Read More
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