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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Bad OSPF summary routing due to poor IP addressing

The below is a real life example. Due to the poor IP addressing, you will see wrong OSPF summary routing has been added in the routing table under specific condition. As RFC 2328 suggests,the metric for summary routes in which the component of the summary route with the maximum / largest metric would determine the …

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