First off, let's cover what's been built so far: To set up an anycast vIP in NSX-T after standing up your base infrastructure (already depicted and configured), all you have to do is stand up a load balanced vIP at multiple sites. NSX-T takes care of the rest. Here's how: Create a new load balancing pool. Create a new …

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Before getting started, let's cover what different IP message types exist in a brief summary, coupled with a "day in the life of a datagram" as it were. Unicast: One source, one well-defined destination. Most network traffic falls into this category. Mayfly perspective: Source device originates packet, and …

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So far, this is all great, but it IS missing something Networks are useless unless you do something with it. In most cases, a device (in this case, we'll use a server) needs to connect via redundant links to a common Layer 2 segment. Why is this? Well, most servers are incapable of dynamic routing. Instead, the server …

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