Hi hi! Here is the first of many posts, ill call, “Its the little stuff”. These will be small posts about neat little things that I come across that dont really appear to need an in-depth walkthrough. We have several… 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
Go to the appliance management page for your vcenter: https://10.x.x.x:5480, the login is “root” and whatever password you selected. When you log in you will see the summary page. In this instance we see that the versions now (pre… 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
Edge Services HA Admin Guide p77 See p86 as well for HA specific Think about HA with vSphere HA Combination with DRS Statefulness firewall sessions LB and VPN connection Impact Edge > Manage > Settings > HA Configuration Edge > Manage… Continue Reading
DHCP/DNS Other Edge Services Admin Guide p245 You can configure external DNS servers to which Edge can relay name resolution NSX edge will cache response NAT Admin Guide p157 Pulblic IP added to external interface NSX Edge > Manage… Continue Reading
IPSec Tunnels Admin Guide p196 1 Log in to the vSphere Web Client. 2 Click Networking & Security and then click NSX Edges. 3 Double-click an NSX Edge. 4 Click the Manage tab and then click the VPN tab.… Continue Reading
Load Balancing Usually considered a tech luxury due to need for expensive hardware appliances, F5s etc NSX Edge load balancer enables network traffic to follow multiple paths to destination optimal resoruce use maximize availabel throughput NSX Edge provides LB up… Continue Reading
Determine HA for L2 Bridging See Design Guid p141 If HA is enabled on the Logical Router and primary NSX Edge vm goes down bridge is automatically moved to host with secondary vm VLAN must have been configured on the edge… Continue Reading
Physical Req Consideration MTU is at least 50 bytes mode than MTU of the vm vNIC DHCP is available on VXLAN transport VLANs if youa re using DHCP for IP assignment for VMKNics (VTEP) 5-tuple hash disto should be enabled… Continue Reading