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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How to Set Up an L2VPN on Custom T1 in a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC

PrefaceStep 1: Add an L2 VPN Server serviceStep 2: Create L2VPN Local EndpointStep 3: Create L2VPN SessionStep 4: Enable ConnectivityStep 5. On-Prem NSX Autonomous Edge Preface I wrote a blog in 2020 about setting up an L2VPN from on-premise to the VMC NSX T0 router. Since SDDC 1.18, VMware Cloud on AWS introduced the support …

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Exploring the Lesser-Known Yet Powerful VMC-AWS Networking APIs

NSX API Access PointsAPI to Backup NSX ConfigAPI to Get the VMC Gateway Routing TableAPI to Request AWS Public IPAPI to Get the NSX Capacity Usage VMware NSX-T provides a programmatic API to automate management activities. The API follows a resource-oriented Representational State Transfer (REST) architecture, using JSON object encoding. Clients interact with the API …

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Zero Code NSX Advanced LB Automation with Terraform

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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