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 …
Category: Cloud Networking
Build Load Balancing Service in VMC on AWS with Avi Load Balancer – Part4
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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Build Load Balancing Service in VMC on AWS with Avi Load Balancer – Part3
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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Build Load Balancing Service in VMC on AWS with Avi Load Balancer – Part2
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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Build Load Balancing Service in VMC on AWS with Avi Load Balancer – Part1
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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How to lock down your Softlayer Vyatta
In Softlayer, Vyatta Network Gateway is offered to provide routing, firewall and VPN gateway function. As a network security device, we have to protect Vyatta gateway itself properly. Softlayer suggest: "This Vyatta gateway is administered directly by the customer. The customer has the ability to login directly to the device and make extensive configurations for servicing their …
Citrix Netscaler L2 and L3 mode
Citrix NetScaler as an L2 Device A NetScaler functioning as an L2 device is said to operate in L2 mode. In L2 mode, the NetScaler forwards packets between network interfaces when all of the following conditions are met: • The packets are destined to another device’s media access control (MAC) address. • The destination MAC …
Citrix Netscaler CloudBridge L3 mode lab
The following lab is going to run through the steps to build a working L3 NetScaler Cloud Bridge tunnel. The lab is built on VMware workstation 9.2. This solution shows in this lab can be applied to Softlayer Cloud Offering for the secure connectivity from your own environment to Softlayer DC. Lab environment component NetScaler …
How to Use Citrix NetScaler CloudBridge Connector with the SoftLayer Cloud
Very good doc and video about how to use Citrix Netscaler CloudBridge Connector with Softlayer Cloud How to Use Citrix NetScaler CloudBridge Connector with the SoftLayer Cloud Points to Consider when Configuring a CloudBridge Tunnel with a NAT Device For configuring a CloudBridge tunnel, consider the following points: -You must not deploy any dynamic NAT …
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Step by Step: how to route a VLAN to Vyatta Gateway using Softlayer Customer Portal
The Vyatta Network Gateway device places a customer configurable routing device in front of specific customer configured VLANs. The primary benefit of using a Network Gateway is control. A Network Gateway provides the customer expanded control over features and functionality, including: Terminate public IPSec VPN tunnels on the Network Gateway device. NAT based configurations …
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