VMware NSX 6.2.3 – SSL VPN Behaviour Change

July 11, 2016 / Martijn / 0 Comments

NSX 6.2.3 was released a few weeks ago and brought a bunch of new stuff and fixes. I came across an undocumented change not mentioned in the release notes, which caused me some head ache, this post describes that change.

The NSX Edge Services Gateway can provide you with a SSL-VPN solution, making it possible for road-warriors to connect to the secured virtual network or make it possible for developers to connect to duplicate development environments. The SSL-VPN client is a lightweight and easy to use VPN client and you can set all kinds of policies as the VPN … Read more

Removing the VMware NSX Solution from vCenter

July 5, 2016 / Martijn / 0 Comments

If you want to remove VMware NSX from your vSphere environment, it’s as simple as reversing the installation steps (remove logical network configuration, remove NSX Service VMs, remove the NSX VIBs from the ESXi hosts and remove the NSX Manager). NSX is completely managed through the vSphere Web Client connecting to your vCenter. After you have reversed the installation steps, you are left with the NSX solution inside the vSphere Web Client.

Removing the NSX Solution from vCenter

Inside vCenter there’s the Managed Object Browser (MOB), which has access to all objects in the vCenter system and you can … Read more

VMware NSX 6.2.3 released

June 10, 2016 / Martijn / 0 Comments

VMware NSX 6.2.3 was released today and it’s a good one! There’s a lot of improvements and some new stuff in there, it’s a hell of a maturing release. Below are a few highlights.

NSX for vShield Endpoint license

There’s a default license generated when you install NSX now, and it defaults on the NSX for vShield Endpoint license. This means you can by default (and without cost) manage anti-virus offloading functionality. This is one step closer to a vShield replacement and an open download.

NSX Hardware Layer 2 Gateway Integration

This has been in the works for a while … Read more

VMware NSX PowerShell Extension Open Sourced

February 1, 2016 / Martijn / 0 Comments

VMware NSX has an open API and it’s pretty easy to consume. PowerShell is the same way; it’s easy to learn and easy to extend. This week, Anthony Burke and Nick Bradford released a PowerShell extension called PowerNSX. As the name suggests, it’s all about managing VMware NSX.

Nick and Anthony put PowerNSX on Bitbucket, which means there will be a continuos release cycle (whenever someone pushes something to the Git repository). You can download and install PowerNSX using Git or by downloading the branch as a zipfile.

Prerequisites

To run PowerNSX, you need a couple of things pre-installed … Read more

Introducing the VMware NSX for vSphere PHP Framework

January 22, 2016 / Martijn / 0 Comments

Over the last few weeks, I have been working on a VMware NSX integration with one of my existing PHP applications. This application is tied into a development process with a new testing schematic which needed to use a the NSX features to test the code inside a tiered network setup. Of course, this needed to be automated and available on demand; enter the NSX API. Using the NSX API, I’ve been able to integrate network deployment and configuration inside the existing application (with not a lot of effort).

After getting a few requests from fellow NSX enthusiasts, I’ve decided … Read more

Ravello Systems: VMware NSX 6.2 Management Service Stuck in ‘Starting’

January 3, 2016 / Martijn / 0 Comments

Ravello Systems offers ‘Smart Labs’ where you can run a multitude of applications in Amazon or Google Cloud, including nested ESXi Hypervisors. This opens up the possibility of replacing a home lab system, where you have noisy power guzzling servers set up at your home and move your test lab to the cloud. I have been using Ravello for a while and just got around to upgrading my VMware NSX blueprint to NSX 6.2.1, which is where I ran into an issue:

The NSX Management Service did not start on boot; it was stuck in ‘Starting..’ for about 5 minutes … Read more

The Future of Virtual Networking from VMworld – Part 2

October 26, 2015 / Martijn / 0 Comments

Following up on my post The Future of Virtual Networking from VMworld – Part 1 (read that before starting this one), I’m going to continue rambling on about some of the awesome future networking ideas floating around during VMworld.

Disclaimer: this post is also based on public roadmap information divulged by VMware and can be subject to change. Also, some of this is my interpretation of the features.

Distributed Load Balancing

With traditional load balancing, network traffic goes through an appliance (physical or virtual) before it connects to the actual target (load balanced server). This is set up this way … Read more

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