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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
With NSX L2VPN, you can extend your VLAN/VXLAN across multiple data centers. Even in a non-NSX environment, you can achieve this as well by use of standalone edge. In this blog, I will show you how to set up NSX L2VPN between Standalone Edge and NSX edge. Topology: As the above, we have 1 NSX …
From NSX-v version 6.4.0, NSX API begins to support JSON format for its response not like before only XML format. From my own expereince, I prefer to use JSON format than XML format as it is easier to decode and encode JSON data than XML data. So I took 1 weekend to re-write my old …
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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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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Recently, I was asked a lot of questions around the capability of NSX load balancer by team and customers. So I put a quick summary of NSX load balancer to ease my life. NSX can perform L4 or L7 load balancing: L4 Load Balancing (packet-based load balancing) : support TCP and UDP load balancing, which …
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