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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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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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 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 …
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 …
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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