Paul Bryant 
I know I am a terrible test taker. Point in fact, the only “exams” I recall being easy/best for me is when I would sit at a terminal and be given tasks to complete in a lab. Taking the educated guess that there are plenty of people like me in the world, I thought I … Explore: VCP-NV 2019 (NSX-T 2.4) (2V0-41.19 exam) Exam Prep
I just wanted to take a moment to write a quick article on some useful commands I use for troubleshooting NSX-T 2.4 By no means is this everything and I will update this article routinly. How to find VTEP (Tunnel End Points)From NSX Manager#get logical-switch vtep From ESXi Host to display TEP end point#esxcfg-vmnic -land#esxcli … Explore: Useful Cheat Sheet CLI for VMware NSX-T
As the journey continues we have now come to the portion where we setup the Edge. There are a couple different ways you can setup your edge, IE leverage Port Groups from a Distributed Switch or leverage NSX-T N-VDS switches. Do you deploy two Transport Zones or four? I have elected to deploy the edge … Explore: How to Install VMware NSX-T (Part 5) –…
Part 4 of the journey takes us through deploying NSX-T on our ESXi Hosts. This will be a multi-step process and has some complexity but this piece can be a lot of fun. The work we do here will have a ripple effect as we move forward so it is important to know your use … Explore: How to Install NSX-T (Part 4) – Transport…
At this point in my journey, we have our first NSX Manager deployed and verified. Along with the compute manager created. Next comes deploying the 2nd & 3rd Managers and form them into a cluster. Luckily, I like how NSX-T keeps getting easier so we’ll deploy this cluster from the UI instead of manually deploying an … Explore: How to Install NSX-T (Part 3) Deploying 2nd/3rd…
As this journey continues the next step in deploying NSX-T 2.4 after deploying your first Manager is to add a new compute manager. This article will be a quick one because it is a quick and easy process. Woohoo! Other Articles in my serieshttps://digitalthoughtdisruption.com/2019/07/01/how-to-install-nsx-t-2-4-part-1-1st-nsx-manager/https://digitalthoughtdisruption.com/2019/07/03/how-to-install-nsx-t-2-4-part-2-deploy-compute-manger/https://digitalthoughtdisruption.com/2019/07/08/how-to-install-nsx-t-2-4-part-3-deploying-2nd-3rd-nsx-manager/https://digitalthoughtdisruption.com/2019/07/11/how-to-install-nsx-t-2-4-part-4-transport-zone-creation-uplink-profile-tep-ip-pool-configure-nsx-t-for-esxi/https://digitalthoughtdisruption.com/2019/07/15/how-to-install-nsx-t-2-4-part-5-the-war-that-was-setting-up-edge-vms-and-edge-cluster-on-n-vds/ Heads up:This is where having all the required ports open are … Explore: How to Install NSX-T (Part 2) – Deploy…
Recently, I have been getting a lot of requests for “advice” on how to re-deploy VxRail. Apparently, the 13G server line and older G-Series appliances still have a use when upgrading to 14G hardware. Lab environment for staging a like for like Production environment to test out code updates, POCs, and anything else you desire … Explore: How to Perform VxRail 4.7 Cluster Install
I wanted to kick off a new NSX-T 2.4 series. I have posted a lot of administrative articles and now I figured I’d start a series of how to actually install NSX-T. In 2.4 VMware combined both the NSX Manager & NSX Controller into a single appliance, which has made deployment a lot easier. Since … Explore: How to Install NSX-T 2.4 (Part 1) –…
Last week I was on a reference call in regards to VxRail. I was asked many questions but one surprising question was, “How difficult is it to add storage?” I thought I would write a quick article to show just how it is done.In a regular vSAN cluster you would need to add the drives, … Explore: VxRail – Add drives to Cluster
In the last couple of weeks I have had to perform a few VxRail upgrades to particular code levels. As many of you know this requires downloading the particular code bundle IE 4.5.229 and performing a local upgrade. However, on two separate clusters in two separate datacenters I noticed that the bundle upload was taking … Explore: VxRail Composite Bundle taking abnormal amount of time…
I know with NSX-T there are plenty of terminology tossed around. Here is another one for you in the tunnel endpoint (TEP) 🙂You may ask, “What is a TEP and why should I care?” Short and simple answer is a TEP enables ESXi hosts to participate in an NSX-T overlay network. Why should I care? … Explore: VMware NSX-T – Create (TEP) IP Pool
A single logical switch is mapped to a unique Geneve segment that is distributed across the ESXi hosts in a transport zone. The logical switch supports line-rate switching in the ESXi host without the constraints of VLAN sprawl or spanning tree issues. A segment is a representation of layer-2 connectivity across transport nodes (ESXi Hosts), … Explore: NSX-T – Deploy Segment (Logical Switch)
A Tier-1 Gateway can span multiple ESXi and KVM hosts. A Distributed Router can provide local routing between different segments on a host. A DR also provides distributed east-west routing functionality across hosts. Things to know about a T1: T1 uplinks to a T0 router T1 has down links to segments Owned and config by … Explore: NSX-T – Deploying Tier-1 (T1) Router
When it comes to a multi-tier router architecture you will be connecting Tier-1 router(s) to an existing Tier-0 router. East-West routing is performed by the DR (distributed Router) in the Tier-1 router. The Tier-0 provides services and external connectivity. Some things to be aware of: When the service and distributed routers are created, they are … Explore: NSX-T – Attach a Tier-1 Gateway to Tier-0…
Every so often I will get the question, “I need to log into the iDRAC on Host X, do you have it’s IP.” I thought I would put together this quick article with the command to provide this information. StepsIssue the following command from the ESXi host you are attempting to gather the iDRAC IP … Explore: How to Discover iDRAC IP on VxRail Node
One of the things I like about NSX-T is the ability to deploy Tier-1 and Tier-0 routers. The T0 is the gateway that bridges the virtual world to the physical world. Below you will find a screenshot of the logical architecture followed by a step by step process to deploy a T0 router in your … Explore: NSX-T – Deploying Tier-0 (T0) Router
From time to time you may encounter an error where your VxRail node goes into a device missing state in VxRail manager but is operating normally in vCenter. The main culprit behind this is typically the PTAgent. The PTAgent exists to poll hardware information on a node every few minutes using ipmi. Assuming there isn’t … Explore: VxRail PTAgent Troubleshooting – Device Missing State
Prepare and perform a VxRail 4.7 RASR factory reset with data-loss warnings, prerequisites, legacy boot steps, troubleshooting, and post-reset recovery checks.
There are instances where you may need to remove a node from your VxRail cluster. One instance may be moving the host from one cluster to another (ensure host is at same code level as the new cluster). Another instance you may be you are wanting to shrink a large cluster into two smaller manageable … Explore: How to remove a VxRail 4.7 Node from…
As I continue my blogging series on deploying NSX-T 2.4 in your environment, my next topic will be Domains. This will be a quick blog as there is not a lot about setting up Domains. Domains will pop up a lot when configuring NSX-T. They are great for logically grouping a collection of workloads and … Explore: Deploying a Domain in NSX-T
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