Since the release of vCenter 6.5a that included support for NSX 6.3 I could finally look to upgrade my lab environment. It is important you follow the official upgrade path for other products, for instance the Platform Service Controller (PSC) must be upgraded first. I will be covering that in […]
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 illustrates how to install the required vibs for NSX 6.2. First download the .zip, browse to the below depending on your ESX version. This post will be related to vSphere 6.0 vSphere 6 - https://NSX-Manager-IP/bin/vdn/vibs-6.2.0/6.0-2984108/vxlan.zip vSphere 5.5 - https://NSX-Manager-IP/bin/vdn/vibs-6.2.0/5.5-2983935/vxlan.zip CLI To update using the CLI extract the .zip file […]
Came across the following issue when preparing my hosts for NSX. This issue relates to when the vCenter certificates have been updated. My environment I have configured my VMCA as a subordinate CA. The error reported is below The problem is ESX Agent Manager fails to log in after the […]
Do you have Platform Service Controller (PSC) or vCenter configured and replaced the self signed machine certificates? Are you looking to deploy NSX Manager 6.2? If so you must consider the following. NSX Manager can be configured to use Lookup Service and you can provide SSO credentials to register NSX Management Service as […]
The following will illustrate how to update the self signed certificate on NSX Manager 6.2. I am using a Windows 2012 CA. First we need to generate the request. Log on to the NSX manager and log in as Admin. go to Manage - SSL Certificate - Generate CSR Enter […]
Having used parts of NSX and as im looking to do the VCP in the coming week / months its time to get it installed in my lab. The first part is to deploy the NSX manager, download this from VMware’s portal or if you have been on the NSX VCP […]