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 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 …
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 …
As an enterprise using VMware Cloud Services, you can set up federation with your corporate domain. Federating your corporate domain allows you to use your organization's single sign-on and identity source to sign in to VMware Cloud Services. You can also set up multi-factor authentication as part of federation access policy settings. Federated identity management …
Environment: OS: CentOS Linux release 7.5.1804 (Core) Error Message: # journalctl -u libvirtd -- Logs begin at Wed 2019-01-30 17:46:41 AEDT, end at Wed 2019-01-30 18:02:09 AEDT. -- Jan 30 17:47:09 ovs-sandbox2 systemd[1]: Starting Virtualization daemon… Jan 30 17:47:14 ovs-sandbox2 libvirtd[1483]: 2019-01-30 06:47:14.936+0000: 1483: info : libvirt version: 4.5.0, package: 10.el7_6.3 (CentOS BuildSystem http://bugs.centos.org, 2018-11-28-20:51:39, …
Recently, I had to build an environment which have a kind of real web application running to test LBaaS site affinity solution,. After a few minutes，I made a decision to install a Jenkins container on my testing Centos 7 virtual machines. Unfortunately, my Centos virtual machines have no Internet access. So I spent a bit …
In this blog, I will show you the routing path for different NSX-T Edge cluster deployment options. The 1st is the simplest scenario: we have a Edge Cluster and there is not any Tier-1 SR. So we will only have Tier-0 DR and Tier-0 SR running in this NSX Edge Cluster. In the routing path …
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