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VCIX-NV Objective 5.1 – Troubleshoot Common NSX Installation/Configuration Issues

December 20, 2014 / Martijn / 0 Comments

This post is part of my VMware VCIX-NV Study Guide and covers troubleshooting common installation and configuration issues.

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Troubleshoot port assignments in an NSX implementation
Troubleshoot lookup service configuration
Troubleshoot vCenter Server integration
Troubleshoot licensing issues
Troubleshoot permissions issues
Troubleshoot host preparation issues
Troubleshoot IP pool issues

Troubleshooting NSX installation
Order of operations with a NSX installation is important. If you skip a step or forget to fulfil a prerequisite, you will have issues in completing the installation in peaceful harmony. This page lists some of the most common … Read more

VCIX-NV Objective 6.3 – Configure and Manage Service Composer

November 26, 2014 / Martijn / 0 Comments

This post is part of my VMware VCIX-NV Study Guide and covers the Service Composer, which allows the chaining of (third party) services to virtual machines.

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Create/Modify/Delete Security Groups
Create/Modify/Delete Security Policies
Map Security Policies to Security Groups
Add/Assign/Edit/Delete Security Tags
View and manage effective services and failures for a Security Policy
Manage Security Policy priorities

Service Composer
Some say the Service Composer inside VMware is the most powerful feature of the entire NSX platform, I tend to agree. With the service composer, you can ‘compose’ chains of services … Read more

VCIX-NV Objective 6.2 – Configure and Administer Role Based Access Control

November 24, 2014 / Martijn / 0 Comments

This post is part of my VMware VCIX-NV Study Guide and covers role based access control (RBAC) in the NSX interface.

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Implement identity service support for Active Directory, NIS, and LDAP with Single Sign-On (SSO)
Configure/Modify/Delete user accounts
Configure/Modify/Delete user roles
Assign roles to user accounts
Disable/Enable user accounts

Role Based Access Control
The NSX Manager has its own authentication database and permission roles you can assign to users. When installing NSX and linking the NSX Manager to vCenter, the NSX Manager gets access to the vCenter authentication database … Read more

VCIX-NV Objective 6.1 – Configure and Administer Firewall Services

November 23, 2014 / Martijn / 0 Comments

This post is part of my VMware VCIX-NV Study Guide and covers managing the different firewall options that NSX has.

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Create/Modify/Delete an Edge Firewall rule
Create/Modify/Delete a Distributed Firewall rule
Configure Source/Destination/Service/Action rule components
Modify the order/priority of Firewall rules
Create/Modify/Delete Firewall rule sections
Create/Modify/Delete Source and Destination Network Address Translation rules
Create/Modify/Delete SpoofGuard policies

NSX Firewalls
There are several security measures inside the NSX platform. When it comes to firewalls, you have two options; the Edge Services Gateway Firewall or the Distributed Firewall.

The first one can act … Read more

VCIX-NV Objective 4.1 – Backup and Restore Network Configurations

November 20, 2014 / Martijn / 0 Comments

This post is part of my VMware VCIX-NV Study Guide and is about the backup and restore possibilities in NSX.

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Schedule/Backup/Restore NSX Manager data
Export/Restore vSphere Distributed Switch configuration
Import/Export Service Composer profiles
Export/Import/Load Distributed Firewall configurations

Backup & Restore in NSX
When a complete NSX virtual network is built with logical switches, distributed routers & firewalls, edge services gateways and all the virtual machine network data, there has gone a lot of time into that configuration. As with physical switches, you’d want to make sure that the implementation … Read more

VCIX-NV Objective 3.3 – Configure and Manage DHCP/DNS/NAT

November 19, 2014 / Martijn / 0 Comments

This post is part of my VMware VCIX-NV Study Guide and is about a collection of services on the NSX Edge Services Gateway: DHCP, DNS and NAT.

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Add/Modify/Delete a DHCP IP Pool
Enable/Disable the DHCP service
Add/Remove a DHCP static binding
Enable/Disable DNS services & Configure DNS services
Add/Modify/Delete a Source NAT (SNAT) rule
Add/Modify/Delete a Destination NAT (DNAT) rule

DHCP, DNS and NAT services
An edge router/firewall wouldn’t be complete with services like DHCP, DNS and NAT (source and destination), so the NSX Edge Services Gateway has these … Read more

VCIX-NV Objective 3.2 – Configure and Manage Logical Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)

November 17, 2014 / Martijn / 0 Comments

This post is part of my VMware VCIX-NV Study Guide and covers the Virtual Private Network connection (VPNs) options inside VMware NSX.

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Enable/Disable IPSec VPN service
Configure global IPSec VPN parameters
Generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR)
Enable and configure logging
Implement Network Access SSL VPN-Plus
Implement Web Access SSL VPN-Plus
Enable/Disable L2 VPN
Add and configure a L2 VPN server
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VCIX-NV Objective 5.1 – Troubleshoot Common NSX Installation/Configuration Issues

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VCIX-NV Objective 6.2 – Configure and Administer Role Based Access Control

VCIX-NV Objective 6.1 – Configure and Administer Firewall Services

VCIX-NV Objective 4.1 – Backup and Restore Network Configurations

VCIX-NV Objective 3.3 – Configure and Manage DHCP/DNS/NAT

VCIX-NV Objective 3.2 – Configure and Manage Logical Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)


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