NSX Replication Modes NSX-V When two VMs connected to different ESXi hosts need to communicate directly, unicast VXLAN-encapsulated traffic is exchanged between the VTEP IP addresses associated with their associated hypervisors. Traffic originated by a VM may also need to be sent to all the other VMs belonging to the same logical switch. Specific […]
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Nested vLab Network Environment In the following lab I’ll deploy a new DLR (DLR-S1-02) using a simplified procedure, some objects like Switch Ports and Router Ports will be auto generated. The ESG have been already installed (ESG-S1-44 & ESG-S1-46) and clustered (ECL-S1-02). On the left picture lab deployed on Part 7, on the right […]
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Nested vLab Network Environment Create a New VLAN Logical Switch Under Advanced Networking & Security | Networking | Switching | Switches click +ADD Type a Logical Switch Name and select a VLAN Transport Zone (in my case TZ-VLAN-EXT) Set a VLAN id The new Logical Switch is ready. […]
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NSX-V In a typical NSX-V deployment we can have 3 vSphere Cluster tipologies: Management Cluster Compute Cluster(s) Edge Cluster On the Management Cluster we have the infrastructure VMs/Appliances like vCenter, NSX Manager, NSX Control Cluster, vRealize Log Insight, AD, DNS…. The Compute Cluster(s) hosts generic VM workloads. In the Edge Clusters generally we have the […]
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Lab env (nested) Perform a CentOS 7.6 installation with 4 vNICS and expose HW assited virtualization to the guest OS. Host preparation #Disable SELinux #Modify YUM configuration to avoid any unsupported package upgrades echo ‘exclude=kernel* redhat-release* kubelet-* kubeadm-* kubectl-*docker-*’ >> /etc/yum.conf #Install additional packages yum groupinstall “Virtualization Hypervisor” yum groupinstall “Virtualization Client” yum […]
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Mnimum vSphere version for NSX-T 2.4 vCenter 6.71Ub ESXi 6.7U1 with patch ESXi670-201901001 Add Compute Manager (vCenter) Login to NSX Manager, under System | Fabric | Compute Managers click on +ADD Insert vCenter informations and credential, click ADD Accept vCenter Thumbrint After some seconds vCenter will be registered […]
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Lab env (nested) Perform a CentOS 7.6 installation with 2 vNICS and expose HW assited virtualization to the guest OS. Host preparation #Disable SELinux #Modify YUM configuration to avoid any unsupported package upgrades echo ‘exclude=kernel* redhat-release* kubelet-* kubeadm-* kubectl-*docker-*’ >> /etc/yum.conf #Install additional packages yum groupinstall “Virtualization Hypervisor” yum groupinstall “Virtualization Client” yum groupinstall “Virtualization […]
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Deploy First NSX-T Manager Set VM name and select DC Select the Compute Resource to host NSX Manager appliance Set NSX Manager size. Select ExtraSmall deployment if you want setup the NSX Manager Cluster in manual mode or Small form factor for using configuration wizard. During configuration wizard is possible only select Small and […]
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Please use google translator button on the right to convert from Italian to English NSX-V Giunti alla versione 6.4.4 e con un rilascio inziale datato a fine 2013, si può dire che questo prodotto ormai sia arrivato ad un buon livello di maturità. Ad ogni minor release, sono state introdotte nuove funzionalità con improvment più […]
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Nested vLabs 