Howdy! Reminder/Quick Notice: Chris McCain over at VMware has a new course on Coursera today, titled: “Networking and Security Architecture with VMware NSX” Ive sat sessions by Chris before and they were excellent, so Id recommend taking a look at… Continue Reading
We ran into an issue trying to create some good micro-segmentation rules for NSX, how locked down does the customer need, what traffic are they passing east west now, etc. After a little research stumbled upon Network Insight. This neat… Continue Reading
One day I was working with a customer running NSX for micro-segmentation of virtual machines (running osx), to block traffic between a set of vms. During some periodic overview testing it was noted that virtual machines ability to ping each… Continue Reading
A Little context on Containers and Virtual Machines A hypervisor provides, via software, hardware presentation to a virtual machine/host. The hypervisor, such as ESXi emulates compute with minimal overhead, according to vmware documentation, no more than 1-5%. Your guestOS, be… Continue Reading
I figured id add a note on what I plan to write up next, which will also force me to make more time to document some of the things I lab. I happen to work at place that loves innovation… Continue Reading
Here is the last chapter of notes from my recent NSX VCP. A few things to note are, lab and hands on time are invaluable. The hands on labs from vmware are excellent resources for this, as well as other… Continue Reading
Its been a little bit since ive posted. Ive been busy trying to broaden my python skill, study for my route/switch CCNA as well as build out some automation at work. All in all its been busy, but here is… Continue Reading
Here are my course notes from the VCP6-NV v6.2 Course touching on VMware NSX Edge Gateway Services. Ive got two more chapters of hand notes to clean up and post in hopes it will assist someone else as it did… Continue Reading
So I figured id toss in a small note about passing the VCP6-Network Virtualization (v6.2) test. Overall the test was not too bad. Following the blueprint definitely assisted in understanding it. I had work purchase the VMware user group advantage… Continue Reading
Here are my course notes from the VCP6-NV v6.2 Course touching on VMware NSX L2 Bridging. As always, I will keep posting the rest of my notes in hopes it will assist someone else as it did me. 6.1… Continue Reading