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VCIX-NV Objective 1.3 – Configure and Manage Transport Zones

November 9, 2014 / / 2 Comments

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

November 6, 2014 / / 1 Comment

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
… Read more

VCIX-NV Objective 1.1 – Deploy VMware NSX Components

November 3, 2014 / / 4 Comments

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
… Read more

Cisco vPC between VDCs in single Nexus 7k (Lab)

November 1, 2014 / / 0 Comments

Cisco virtual Port-channels technology is a pretty straight-forward technique: make two switches seem like one switch to a downstream switch, connected with a port-channel. The downstream switch has a single port-channel going upward, which makes the switch high available and eliminating the use of spanning-tree. It looks like this:

vPC in single N7k

Read more about vPC here. For the rest of this post, I’ll assume you know how to configure and use vPC.

In a lab where you have a single Nexus 7000 switch for testing and studying, you would divide it up into VDCs for ultimate usage. OTV, Fabricpath and the … Read more

Cisco OTV Lab with Multicast example

October 22, 2014 / / 2 Comments

Cisco OTV (or Overlay Transport Virtualisation) is a technology inside Cisco Nexus switches (7K) for extending VLANs across a routed network. You can read all about OTV here and here. This post consists of an example configuration for a lab where you have a single Nexus 7K and you want to get OTV over multicast running between VDCs and comes from my CCIE study notes for when I was practicing with OTV. I’ve heard some people have issues with getting the multicast configuration working, so I figured I would share mine here.

First off, to create the illusion of … Read more

VMware NSX on a FlexPod (with dynamic routing)

October 8, 2014 / / 0 Comments

Cisco has made it clear that there will be no validated design for a FlexPod with VMware NSX running as the virtual network and there will be no trifecta vendor support for the entire platform. This does not mean you’re completely barred from using it though. To be able to make use of the best of both worlds, I’ve been working to create a design that uses FlexPod as the rock solid foundation and offer the networking flexibility that VMware NSX offers. The goal is to not change the FlexPod design so that it will still be certified for support.… Read more

Cisco UCS B-Series CPU Upgrades – WILL_BOOT_FAULT

September 21, 2014 / / 3 Comments

UCS is different then other server platforms, which sometimes makes simple maintenance tasks not as straightforward as you’d think. We had an truckload of CPU upgrades last week. A regular server admin would think; “Hey, I just take this old CPU out and put this new CPU in and bob’s my uncle!” – well, UCS might have a surprise for you.

One of my colleagues (a ‘traditional’ server guy) handled this replacement and was confronted with an error message when reinserting the blades: WILL_BOOT_FAULT (awesome description once again, Cisco). Considering the error message itself, they went looking for boot issues. … Read more

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