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First lets create Tier-1 GW to provide connectivity between Location-1 and Location 2 (Dallas/FortWorth) through RTEP In your primary Global Manager go to Networking > Connectivity > Tier-1 Gateways Add Tier-1 GW Provide a name. I recommend putting something in the name to indicate this is a stretched T1 Keep failover to Non-Preemptive In Edges … Explore: Create Stretched Networks in VMware NSX-T Federation
A virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) gateway makes it possible for multiple instances of a routing table to exist within the same gateway at the same time. VRFs are the layer 3 equivalent of a VLAN. A VRF gateway must be linked to a tier-0 gateway. From the tier-0 gateway, the VRF gateway inherits the … Explore: How to Deploy a VRF Lite Gateway in…
In this article I will cover setting up your first two Global Managers and adding the local managers from your sites. Log into the newly deployed Global Manager System > Configuration > location Manager Make Active Provide the name of your Global Manager Confirm the GM is active SSH into the Global Manager Run the … Explore: Configuring Global Managers and Local Managers in VMware…
Tier-1 Gateway (also known as Tier-1 Logical Router): provides default gateway services for VMs attached to segments. It connects to one tier-0 gateway for northbound connectivity and one or more overlay networks for southbound connectivity. Both types of gateways can include a distributed router (DR) and a service router (SR). Distributed routers are instantiated on … Explore: How to Deploy a VMware NSX-T 3.2 Tier-1…
Tier-0 Gateway (also known as Tier-0 Logical Router): interfaces with the physical network and exchange routing information with external routers via static routing or eBGP. In active-standby mode, the gateway can also provide stateful services. The Tier-0 router performs gateway services between overlay and non-overlay hosts (for example, a physical server or the Internet router). … Explore: How to Deploy a VMware NSX-T 3.2 Tier-0…
Once you have reached the welcome page you will have options For this example we will be deploying Tanzu on a vCF environment so click deploy under vSphere Next enter in your vCenter server name Username/password for your admin account Then click connect to confirm you can connect Deploy TKG Management Cluster Select your Data … Explore: Deploy VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid
A segment performs the functions of a logical switch. A segment gives tenant network administrators the logical equivalent of a physical Layer 2 switch, allowing them to connect a set of VMs to a common broadcast domain. A segment is a logical entity independent of the physical hypervisor infrastructure and spans many hypervisors, connecting VMs … Explore: How to Create a Segment in VMware NSX-T…
NSX-T Edge nodes provide routing services and connectivity to networks that are external to the NSX-T deployment. NSX-T Edges are required for establishing external connectivity from the NSX-T domain, through a Tier-0 router over BGP or static routing. Additionally, you must deploy an NSX-T Edge for stateful services at either the Tier-0 or Tier-1 logical … Explore: How to deploy VMware NSX-T 3.2 Edge Node…
In this article I will cover creating Global Groups in NSX-T Federation. Then we will create a policy and a rule to test web traffic in order to show that the new policy/rule applies at both site locations. Log into the Global Manager In the primary global manager go to Inventory > Groups Add Group … Explore: Configure Global Policies in VMware NSX-T Federation
NSX-T-T now allows LDAP/AD as an alternative to using the VMware identity manager solution. This is perfect for environments that only need to control authentication of the NSX-T environment. When integrating with Active Directory, NSX Manager allows users to log in using their samAccountName, or userPrincipalName. If the @domain portion of the userPrincipalName does not match the … Explore: How to Add AD/LDAP to VMware NSX-T 3.2
FQDN Analysis allows administrators to gain insight into the type of websites accessed within the organization, and understand the reputation and risk of the accessed websites. How to configure: Security > North South Security > URL Analysis You need to enable the service which is disabled by default Highlight your edge and click enable Yes … Explore: VMware NSX-T 3.2 Analyzing URL Traffic
A transport node is a node that is capable of participating in an NSX-T Data Center overlay or NSX-T Data Center VLAN networking. Any node can serve as a transport node if it contains an N-VDS. Such nodes include but are not limited to NSX Edges. How to Prepare ESXi Hosts System > Configuration > … Explore: Prepare ESXi Hosts to Join VMware NSX-T 3.2
The Tunnel endpoint (TEP) enables Transport nodes to participate in an NSX-T overlay. The NSX-T overlay deploys a Layer 2 network on top of an existing Layer 3 network fabric by encapsulating frames inside packets and transferring the packets over an underlying transport network. The underlying transport network can be another Layer 2 network, or … Explore: How to Create TEP IP Pool VMware NSX-T…
Whether part of a fresh installation or continue growth and expansion of an existing environment, transport zones will need to be created. Transport zones dictate which hosts and, therefore, which VMs can participate in the use of a particular network. A transport zone does this by limiting the hosts that can “see” a segment—and, therefore, … Explore: How to Create Transport Zone in VMware NSX-T…
As I work with more and more clients the use cases for DynamoDB continue to rise. I wanted to put together a quick how to article. Why DynamoDB? Solid performance Can scale It is not a relational database It is a fully managed DB that is replicated across 3 x AZs providing HA Low cost … Explore: AWS DynamoDB Setup
If you are like me then you are always working in environments where everything wants to increase speed & efficiency while lowering cost. Serverless compute functions or functions as a service unlock this ability for end users like developers. No longer do developers have to manage servers but they just manage code. Benefits of functions: … Explore: Serverless w/ AWS Lambda Functions
We’ve all been there where we need to setup an auto scaling policy for our auto scaling groups. I find policies a great way to control the spin up and spin down of new resources based on workload requirements. I high recommend you go skim over the dynamic scaling documentation on AWS for all your … Explore: Configuring AWS Scaling Policy inside an Auto Scaling…
This is the first load balancer that AWS introduced which has it is missing some features like the latest load balancers provide. A Classic Load Balancer still has a purpose for EC2 Classic instances.  Per AWS, “Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes your incoming traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses, … Explore: Create Classic Load Balancer in AWS
Sometimes you may find yourself in a situation where you need to share an image between accounts. Below you will find a quick walk through of how to share an AMI image you’ve already created. Right click on the Image > Modify image permissions Add AWS account number here ****If you don’t check the box … Explore: How to share an AMI Image in AWS
In my next AWS article I wanted to cover creating custom AMI Images. Creating images in AWS can be time saving by having all of your base requirements completed and ready to go for faster deployments. Think of them like VMware templates in vCenter for my VMware people out there. Previous article on creating an … Explore: How to create an AMI Image in AWS
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