VCF 9.1 API Access Series This post is part of an ongoing deep-dive series on VCF 9.1 programmatic access. Foundational Mechanics VCF 9.1 API Access (1): Basic VCF 9.1 API Access (2): Access Control Component Authentication & Token Exchange VCF 9.1 API Access (3): Using API Access Token for NSX and Operations API VCF 9.1 API Access …
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VCF Password Management Automation with the VCF Terraform Provider and HashiCorp Vault
Introduction In today's complex IT environments, managing passwords manually can be time-consuming, error-prone, and a significant security risk. This blog post will demonstrate how to automate VMware Cloud Foundation (aka VCF) password management using the VCF Terraform Provider and HashiCorp Vault. By leveraging these powerful tools, you can significantly simplify your password management operations, especially …
VMC NSX ALB Load Balancing with HCX Network Extension
IntroductionPlanning and ImplementationNSX ALB Cloud TypeNSX ALB Topology and HCX Network ExtensionNSX ALB and HCX MONNSX ALB Service Engine PlacementService Resilience Introduction Since VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC version 1.9, NSX Advanced Load Balancer has been available as a customer-managed solution. The NSX ALB controllers and SEs are manually deployed as VMs through vCenter in …
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Make Thousands of NSX-T API Calls in Minute
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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Exploring the Lesser-Known Yet Powerful VMC-AWS Networking APIs
NSX API Access PointsAPI to Backup NSX ConfigAPI to Get the VMC Gateway Routing TableAPI to Request AWS Public IPAPI to Get the NSX Capacity Usage VMware NSX-T provides a programmatic API to automate management activities. The API follows a resource-oriented Representational State Transfer (REST) architecture, using JSON object encoding. Clients interact with the API …
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Setting Up Federated Identity Management for VMC on AWS – Authentication with PingOne
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 …
Zero Code NSX Advanced LB Automation with Terraform
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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Setting Up L2VPN in VMC on AWS
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 …
Setting Up Federated Identity Management for VMC on AWS – Authentication with Okta IdP
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 …
Setting Up Federated Identity Management for VMC on AWS – Authentication with Active Directory
This blog is the second blog of this Federated Identity Management for VMC on AWS series. Please complete the vIDM connector installation and setup as per my first blog of this series before moving forward. (https://davidwzhang.com/2019/07/31/setting-up-federated-identity-management-for-vmc-on-aws-install-and-setup-vidm-connector/) VMware Cloud on AWS Federated Identity management supports different kinds of authentication methods. This blog will demo the basic …
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