When using the NSX-T migration coordinator for the migration of your NSX for vSphere environment to NSX-T Datacenter. You can run into an issue where you are left with a bunch of temporary objects (mostly groups). These groups enabled you to seamlessly migrate from NSXv to NSX-T. After finishing the migration these groups don’t...
Do you have a lot of NSX IpSet objects in your NSXv environments? And do you want to know which VM’s fall into the IP membership of these NSX IpSet objects? Do not look any further: This script lets you retrieve/convert your IPset objects to VM objects, based on the IP4v information retrieve from...
In my previous post I told you how we (Rob, Johan and me) started home brewing our own beers, so we could present them at BBQ/beer tastings for friends. Well, things have accelerated and we now have a commercial beer brewery, called Brewery 22Four. In this blog I will take you on our journey...
Newly deploy NSX-T Segments in NSX-T receive the default “segment security policy” which, prevents DHCP from working. This can be quickly resolved by creating a new “segment security policy” which allows DHCP, which must be assigned to the NSX-T Segments as described in https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/79072 When your environment has a bunch of segments, this can...
NSX-T offers federation capabilities which consolidate multiple NSX instances (locations) into a single pane of glass. in the past VMware NSX for vSphere offered the same capabilities through the concept of universal objects: one primary NSX manager was responsible for the management of universal objects (groups and tags) and synchronized these objects with all...
Introduction NSX Federation enables admins to manage multiple local NSX-T Managers from a single pane of glass, though the use of a global NSX-T Management cluster. NSX-T Federation is available since NSX-T version 3.0 (production-ready since 3.1) and it’s available through a manual guide for VMware Cloud Foundation version 4.2 and later. One of...
In BBQ-land, rubs and sauces add flavors to your well prepared smoked meat. Some meat doesn't need any additives, but sometimes it can really changes the experience. I came across this sauce: In America it isn't uncommon to see this sauce at you bbq joint, but here in the Netherlands it's not really known...
For the migration of NSX-v to NSX-T there is a “small” step which requires to set the ExportVersion set to 1000 (for all VMs on all vSphere hosts), as per this doc. You can circumvent this step by quickly re-enabling the firewall on the clusters: but this is like shooting a misquito with a...
Introduction One of the use cases provided by VMware NSX is the Distributed Firewall, which secures application workloads within the datacenter. It’s fully decoupled from the underlying network infrastructure, being able to focus on application-based security. Many customers have already implemented NSX to secure their workloads. With the upcoming EOL of NSX-v there is...
a vSphere and NSX-T network port diagramm...
