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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Integrate VMware NSX-T with Kubernetes

Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. K8s use network plugin to provide the required networking functions like routing, switching, firewall and load balancing. VMware NSX-T provides a network plugin called NCP for K8s as well. If you want to know more about VMware NSX-T, please go …

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Automate NSX-T Build with Terraform

Terraform is a widely adopted Infrastructure as Code tool that allow you to define your infrastructure using a simple, declarative programming language, and to deploy and manage infrastructure across public cloud providers including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud & IBM Cloud and other infrastructure providers like VMware NSX-T, F5 Big-IP etc. In this blog, I will …

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Install PowerCLI and PowerNSX Offline on RHEL7

With the release of PowerCLI 10.0.0, VMware adds support for Mac OS and Linux! Now you can install PowerCLI and PowerNSX on Linux System including RHEL, Centos, Unbuntu and Mac OS. To complete installation of VMware PowerCLI 10 and PowerNSX, firstly you need to install Powershell Core 6.0. In most of enterprise environments, we won't …

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Create XML file in vRealize Orchestrator for NSX Automation

NSX API uses XML format for API communication. To automate NSX in VMware vRealize Orchestror, it is always required to create a XML file with javascript  as vRO workflow supports javascript only.Here i only shows you an example to how to do it. The target here is to create a security group and add a …

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vRA7.3 and NSX Integration: Network Security Data Collection Failure

We are building vRA 7.3 . We added vCenter and NSX manager as endpoint in vRA. And associate NSX manager with vCenter. All of computing resource data collection works well but not NSX (network and security): So in vRA reservation, we only can see vSphere cluster, vDS port-group/logical switch but not Transport zone, security group/tags …

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Simple Python Script Creating a Dynamic Membership Security Group

In this blog, I developed a very simple Python scripts to create NSX security group whose membership is based on Security Tag. Please note this script is to show you the basic, which has not been ready for a production environment. Two Python functions are includes in this script: create_tag is used to create a …

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Automate F5 GSLB with Ansible

F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM) provides tiered global server load balancing (GSLB). BIG-IP GTM distributes DNS name resolution requests, first to the best available pool in a wide IP, and then to the best available virtual server within that pool. GTM selects the best available resource using either a static or a dynamic load …

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