NSX-T

Introduction Modern enterprise networks require agility, consistency, and scale. VMware NSX-T’s rich API ecosystem empowers network engineers, virtualization admins, and architects to automate everything from provisioning to lifecycle management. This deep dive shows how to harness the NSX-T API using both Python and PowerShell, with clear, practical scripts, detailed error handling, and ready-to-use patterns. Every … Explore: NSX-T API Automation for Enterprise Operations: Python &…

Traceflow or port mirroring: which tool should you use? Use Traceflow when you need to follow a synthetic packet through VMware NSX and identify the component or rule that forwards or drops it. Use port mirroring when you need a copy of real traffic for Wireshark or tcpdump. Start with Traceflow for path and policy … Explore: NSX-T Traceflow and Port Mirroring Troubleshooting Guide

Table of Contents 1. Introduction: Why YAML-Driven IaC for NSX-T? Modern IT organizations demand agility, repeatability, and compliance. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using YAML allows network engineers, architects, and platform teams to design, provision, and version entire NSX-T network topologies with source-controlled, human-readable files. Benefits: 2. Foundation: NSX-T 4.x Automation Landscape NSX-T 4.x unlocks API-first … Explore: YAML-Driven NSX-T Infrastructure as Code: Real Examples for…

Introduction Multicast, broadcast, and unknown unicast (BUM) traffic management is fundamental in any NSX-T Data Center deployment. These traffic types can impact scalability, efficiency, and performance if not carefully designed and monitored. NSX-T 4.x introduces mature mechanisms for handling BUM traffic within overlay networks and in integration with physical underlays, supporting both greenfield and brownfield … Explore: NSX-T Multicast and BUM Traffic: Design, Optimization, and…

At VMworld 2020 a new solution called Edge Network Intelligence from the Nyansa acquisition has been announced.  One thing you have to appreciate about VMware is they will acquire a company to add a missing feature to their portfolio.  The VeloCloud acquisition bringing SD-WAN to VMware was a huge piece to add to the edge … Explore: VMware Bringing SASE to SD-WAN VMworld 2020

In an effort to continue to give you deeper visibility into your environment, vRNI has some great updates being released at VMworld.  vRNI has always been a great end to end tool but now with assurance and verification giving you the ability to perform intent verification, with network wide visibility, and proactive operations based on … Explore: VMware vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) VMworld 2020 Announcements

I was fortunante enough to be selected by TechTarget for quotes on VMWare NSX-T 3.0 new features. It is truly a humbling honor to have been able to provide some details. Please find the link below. https://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/news/252481484/NSX-T-30-enriches-VMwares-offering-for-hybrid-IT

Recently, VMware released NSX-T 2.5 with a lot of new features and improvements I know everyone is wanting.  I know being one of those people I had to upgrade NSX-T from 2.4.0 in my production environment to 2.5.  This is my walk through of upgrading from 2.4.0 to 2.5.0.  I must admit the upgrade assistant … Explore: Upgrading VMware NSX-T 2.4.0 to NSX-T 2.5.0 Step…

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…

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) –…

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