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VCIX-NV Objective 2.2 – Configure VXLANs

This post is part of my VMware VCIX-NV Study Guide and covers VXLAN, the backbone of the NSX network. It’s not that much ground to cover, but you should have a very good understanding of how VXLAN is used, how it is built and most importantly, which requirements it has.

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VXLAN
VXLAN (or Virtual eXtensible LAN) is a widely support technology to create logically separated … Read more

VCIX-NV Objective 2.1 – Create and Administer Logical Switches

This post is part of my VMware VCIX-NV Study Guide and covers the Logical Switches in NSX.

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What is a Logical Switch?
In previous versions of vSphere, you had two networking options for virtual machines, which were a portgroup on a standard vSwitch or a portgroup on a Distributed vSwitch. These … Read more

VCIX-NV Objective 1.3 – Configure and Manage Transport Zones

This post is part of my VMware VCIX-NV Study Guide and covers the explanation and management of Transport Zones within NSX.

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What is the Transport Zone?
The Transport Zone is the heart of the VXLAN network. It is the network where the Logical Switches (previously known as portgroups) send their data traffic. It is the network where the ESXi nodes create tunnels between themselves for … Read more

VCIX-NV Objective 1.2 – Upgrade VMware NSX Components

This post is part of my VMware VCIX-NV Study Guide and covers the upgrade process from vCloud Networking and Security to the NSX Suite.

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Upgrade vShield Manager 5.5 to NSX Manager 6.x

Requirements:

  • vCenter 5.5+
  • vShield Data
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VCIX-NV Objective 1.1 – Deploy VMware NSX Components

This post is part of my VMware VCIX-NV Study Guide. Topics are taken from the blueprint and reordered a bit to make the installation flow make sense.

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Deploy the NSX Manager virtual appliance

Requirements:

  • Working vSphere 5.5 environment (vCenter appliance, ESXi, Management
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VMworld Europe 2014 Recap

VMworld Europe is the event of the year for me. A week of meeting up with all kinds of IT professionals from around the world. I believe there were around 9,000 people from 90+ different countries. Apart from all the interesting people, it is geek heaven for anyone interested in virtualisation.

Being a techhead first, I always go head first into the technical sessions. This year, I attended around 18 break out sessions mostly about VMware NSX and automation subjects. Being a hybrid engineer (network & virtualisation), I thoroughly am enjoying what is happening in the networking space around virtualisation. … Read more

VMware NSX Best Practices from VMworld

There were a lot of technical sessions on VMworld about VMware NSX. 30 sessions were about or touched on NSX and interest (the queue for the waiting list) were enormous, a lot of people wanting to know more.

As a network guy, my VMworld was mostly about NSX as well. I joined 7 sessions to get more acquainted and learn about best practices in designing virtual network environments. This post will summarise these best practices. As soon as the VMworld presentations will come online, I will update this post with the actual network diagrams.

 

Cluster Design (types)
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