Recently Nimble released a virtual appliance running NimOS - fully working Nimble array as an appliance. Great for testing and learning before using the real thing. You have to work for Nimble or be a partner to get access. If you are a partner then great! Download it from InfoSight. It […]
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 I have now established east-west communication I must now configure north-south communication - this is achieved by using NSX Edge (ESG). ESG supports dynamic routing protocols that can be peered with the physical infrastructure, for my lab I will be attempting to […]
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 The next part of my lab is to start creating logical switches, connecting VMs and configuring routing. Routing can be achieved by either centralised routing or distributed routing. Centralised routing represents NSX Edge as an on-ramp/off-ramp setup, this can provide east-west routing but is […]
Part 1 Part 2 Now its time to start work on the data plane and we start by preparing my hosts and network. Preparing the hosts consists of deploying additional vibs to the ESXi hosts, configuring a VXLAN Tunnel Endpoint (VTEP) kernel interface on each host, configuring a range of […]
The next part of my lab is to deploy the NSX controller cluster. The controller cluster consist of controller nodes - this is the control plane responsible for managing the hypervisor switching and routing modules. NSX Controller maintains information about all hosts, logical switches, and distributed logical routers For resiliency and […]
The following is a list of resources that I have came across whilst studying for the VCP6-NV exam. This is mainly for my reference but hopefully it might help someone, I will update this list as I go PDFs NSX 6 Admin Guide NSX 6 Install Guide NSX-v Getting Started […]