Diagram is to try and display my understanding how layer 2 bridging might work. Why Extend the physical services to virtual machines Allow physical devices to use NSX edge gateway…
Learn NSX Day 9 : Load Balancing Feature
EDGE Load Balancing Networking and Security > NSX EDGE > Manage > Load Balancer tab. load-balancing-edge Three load balancing options available Enable Loadbalance – For internal servers distributed traffic Enable…
Introducing vSphere 6.5
Introducing vSphere 6.5 -VMware vSphere Blog Introducing vSphere 6.5 Today, VMware announces vSphere 6.5, the latest version of its industry-leading virtualization platform. This new release of vSphere features a dramatically…
Learn NSX Day 8 : vDS (vSphere Distributed Switch)
Switch Features vDS-versions Network I/O Control LLDP Port Mirroring Policy Settings Access Control Lists LCAP v2 DSCP Marking Configure Virtual Machine to use vDS VMs – Adapter Settings…
Learn NSX Day 7 : Deploying ESXi
Image Builder Reason to use : Pre load NSX VIBs into your ESXi image for an auto deploy solution (Prep ESXi hosts normally in Update Manager) A guide can be…
Learn NSX Day 6 : NSX and Logical Switches
Replication Modes on Logical Switches logical-switch options Broadcast (BUM) Hybrid Mode Logical Switch broadcast Sort of utilises both Unicast and Multicast traffic Unknown Uni-cast replication unicast…
Learn NSX Day 5 : NSX HA, Edge, REST API
Edge HA edge Works in Active / Standby. There is zero service interruption during failover Requires two NSX Edge appliances Configured with in the Web Client > Networking and…
Learn NSX Day 4 : NSX Roles
Security Admin Options : "NSX Security only" Description : View configured policies, View violation reports, can also have limited access to specific edge devices, create port groups etc. NSX Administrator Options…
Learn NSX Day 3 : NSX Manager and NSX Controller
NSX Manager NSX Manger Manage vCenter Registration nsx-manager-options Overview Manage NSX Manager Options Deployment of the controller clusters Logical networking Networking and Edge services Security Services (out the box includes…
Learn NSX Day 2 : NSX Deployment Best Practice
This best practice page is more of a list of resources and starting points to collect information from · Start with the VMware NSX for VSphere Network Virtualization Design Guide…