IntroductionPlanning and ImplementationNSX ALB Cloud TypeNSX ALB Topology and HCX Network ExtensionNSX ALB and HCX MONNSX ALB Service Engine PlacementService Resilience Introduction Since VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC version 1.9, NSX Advanced Load Balancer has been available as a customer-managed solution. The NSX ALB controllers and SEs are manually deployed as VMs through vCenter in …
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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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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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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 …
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 Microsoft Azure AD as well. In this integration model, the customer dedicated vIDM tenant will work as the SAML Service Provider and the Azure AD will work as the IdP. Disclaimer: The Azure AD settings in this blog are to demo the …
The Federated Identity feature of VMware Cloud on AWS can be integrated with Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS). In this integration model, the customer dedicated vIDM tenant will work as the SAML Service Provider and the ADFS will work as the IdP. Disclaimer: The ADFS settings in this blog are to demo the integration …
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Avi Networks load balancing platform offers fantastic automation capabilities, which allow us to automate the load balancing service via some popular Infrastructure as Code tools like Ansible and Terraform. Today, I will demonstrate the Day 1 automation using Ansible (version 2.8.5) in this blog. [root@code1 ~]# ansible --version ansible 2.8.5 config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg configured …
This blog is Part 4 of this series. If you have not gone through the Part1, Part2 and Part3, please go and check them out now. In Part3, we set up an active-active global load balancing service for our testing application (https://www.sddc.vmconaws.link). Some applications require stickiness between a client and a server. That is to say, …
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This blog is Part 3 of this series. If you have not gone through Part1 and Part2, please go and check them out now. In Part 1 and Part 2, we deployed the Avi Load Balancers and completed the local load balancing setup in VMC SDDC01. To achieve high availability across different SDDCs, global load …
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