Iperf3 OverviewCommon Used Parameters for both TCP and UDPTCP Network Performance TestingUDP Network Performance Testing Iperf3 Overview Iperf3 is a tool for performing network performance testing. It allows you to test the bandwidth, latency, and packet loss across network links by sending and receiving streams of data between two hosts. iperf3 operates in a client-server …
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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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PrefaceStep 1: Add an L2 VPN Server serviceStep 2: Create L2VPN Local EndpointStep 3: Create L2VPN SessionStep 4: Enable ConnectivityStep 5. On-Prem NSX Autonomous Edge Preface I wrote a blog in 2020 about setting up an L2VPN from on-premise to the VMC NSX T0 router. Since SDDC 1.18, VMware Cloud on AWS introduced the support …
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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 …
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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When we design a highly available (HA) infrastructure for a mission-critical application, local load balancing and global load balancing are always the essential components of the solution. This series of blogs will demonstrate how to build an enterprise-level local load balancing and global load balancing service in VMC on AWS SDDC with Avi Networks load balancer. …
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