If you are not familiar with NSX-T and LogInsight, this blogpost is not for you: It’s an expert-level blog post regarding these products. When composing or implementing distributed firewall...
NSX V2T migration issue – Load Balancer status UNKNOWN
During my last NSX V2T migration I ran into an issue which I want to share with you: Symptoms: The load balancer is migrated from NSX for vSphere (NSX-v)...
NSX v2t migration, vSphere 7.0.2 and HPE serverhardware – Be aware! (Powershell fixscript available)
I experienced a particular use case, which I want to inform you about! When migrating from NSX for vSphere (NSXv) to NSX-T using the migration coordinator, running vSphere 7.0.2...
NSX-V2T migration coordinator – cleanup script
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...
Convert your NSXv IPSet objects to VM objects
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...
Solving DHCP issues with NSX-T Segments en masse with PowerShell
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”...
Understanding NSX-T Federation – groups and tags
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...
Prevent Password Lockout on Local NSX-T Managers when using Federation
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...
PowerShell: Automating NSX-V Firewall Filter to Export Version 1000
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...
Dealing with seamless NSX DFW migrations (1/2)
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,...