Background As a network guy, network automation has always been my favourite topic. I needed to build an NSX-T environment to validate a specific function from time to time. When I got an NSX-T config, I used a straightforward Python script that makes the NSX-T API calls to import the config into a new lab …
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The Federated Identity feature of VMware Cloud on AWS can be integrated with all 3rd party IdPs who support SAML version 2.0. In this integration model, the customer dedicated vIDM tenant will work as SAML Service Provider. If the 3rd party IdP is set up to perform multi-factor authentication (MFA), the customer will be prompted …
VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (Avi Networks) provides multi-cloud load balancing, web application firewall, application analytics and container ingress services across on-premises data centers and any cloud. Terraform is a widely adopted Infrastructure as Code tool that allows you to define your infrastructure using a simple, declarative programming language, and deploy and manage infrastructure across …
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In VMC on AWS SDDC, you can extend your on-premise network to VMC SDDC via HCX or L2VPN. In this blog, I will show you how to set up L2VPN in VMC on AWS to extend network VLAN 100 to SDDC. This blog is for VMC SDDC, running at version 1.9, which is backed by …
The Federated Identity feature of VMware Cloud on AWS can be integrated with Microsoft Azure AD as well. In this integration model, the customer dedicated vIDM tenant will work as the SAML Service Provider and the Azure AD will work as the IdP. Disclaimer: The Azure AD settings in this blog are to demo the …
The Federated Identity feature of VMware Cloud on AWS can be integrated with Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS). In this integration model, the customer dedicated vIDM tenant will work as the SAML Service Provider and the ADFS will work as the IdP. Disclaimer: The ADFS settings in this blog are to demo the integration …
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Avi Networks load balancing platform offers fantastic automation capabilities, which allow us to automate the load balancing service via some popular Infrastructure as Code tools like Ansible and Terraform. Today, I will demonstrate the Day 1 automation using Ansible (version 2.8.5) in this blog. [root@code1 ~]# ansible --version ansible 2.8.5 config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg configured …
This blog is Part 4 of this series. If you have not gone through the Part1, Part2 and Part3, please go and check them out now. In Part3, we set up an active-active global load balancing service for our testing application (https://www.sddc.vmconaws.link). Some applications require stickiness between a client and a server. That is to say, …
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This blog is Part 3 of this series. If you have not gone through Part1 and Part2, please go and check them out now. In Part 1 and Part 2, we deployed the Avi Load Balancers and completed the local load balancing setup in VMC SDDC01. To achieve high availability across different SDDCs, global load …
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This blog is Part 2 of this series. If you have not gone through the Part1, please go and check it out now. In Part 2, we will demo how to set up a local load balancing virtual service for a web-based application on our deployed Avi load balancer. The IP Address allocation and network …
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