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VMware’s NSX Datacenter product is designed for a bit more than single enterprise virtual networking and security. When reviewing platform maximums ( NSX-T 3.2 ConfigMax), the listed maximum number of Tier-1 routers is 4,000 logical routers. Achieving that number takes a degree of intentional design, however. When building a multi-tenant…

Have you ever wondered what happened to all the privately-addressed traffic coming from any home network? Well, if it isn’t explicitly blocked by the business, it’s routed, and this is not good. Imagine what data leakage can occur when a user mistypes a destination IP — the traffic goes out…

The Jetstreams Cloud operators now provide two completely different classes of service to customers: Self-Service, VMs, Operating System Templates Generally mature, some private cloud operators are smoothing out CMPs or such, but work as intended from a customer perspective Bringup is automated Operating System level configuration is usually automated Application-level configuration is…

NSX-T версии 3.0 и выше в связке с ESXi 7.0 поддерживает использование родного для ESXi distibuted switch вместо поставляемого с NSX. Более того в следующей версии (3.2) NSX-T N-VDS возможно будет удален/помечен как устаревший. Официальная инструкция https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-NSX-T-Data-Center/3.1/administration/GUID-1039A36F-F55E-4A0A-B6C6-2C383F4A716D.html …

В ходе внедрения NSX-T в геораспределенном ЦОД возникла необходимость построения конфигурации способной пережить падение одного из сайтов с минимальным downtime. У VMware есть замечательный документ по конфигурациям мультисайтов в NSX-T https://communities.vmware.com/wbsdv95928/attachments/wbsdv95928/4002/269/27/Design%20Guide%20-%20NSX-T%203.1%20Multi-Locations-v1.10.pdf в котором описаны все возможные мультисайт конфигурации.

Очень краткая заметка по работе с REST API NSX-T. Некоторые настройки и действия с управлением NSX-T в текущих версиях можно делать только через REST API, например создание Fault Domain или замена SSL сертификатов. Из под Windows наверное проще всего делать это используя Postman. Идем на https://www.postman.com/downloads/ и качаем установщик, при первом запуске можно не создавать аккаунт, а просто нажать skip.

I have mentioned in a previous blog post that I’m not using any ACLs on my tunnel broker VM. This is usually pretty bad, but again, we can get those protections outside of the VM — I’m using this to prove out how NSX-T can provide utility in this situation. Solution Overview VyOS is a fantastic platform, with a ton of rich, extensive features that can empower any network engineer to…

First off, let’s cover what’s been built so far: To set up an anycast vIP in NSX-T after standing up your base infrastructure (already depicted and configured), all you have to do is stand up a load balanced vIP at multiple sites. NSX-T takes care of the rest. …

Since most of NSX-T runs in a firewall mode of sorts, it’s probably worthwhile to discuss on of the less well-known routing protocol features — Graceful Restart. As published for BGP, IETF RFC 4724 outlines a mechanism for “preserving forwarding traffic during a BGP restart.” This definition may be a…