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  • NSX Advanced Load Balancer - NSX-T Service Engine Creation Failures: CC_SE_CREATION_FAILURE and Transport Node Not Found to create service engine

    calendar Jul 5, 2021 · 3 min read · VMWare Datacenter Networking Avi NSX-T Design Patterns Network Automation NSX-ALB  ·
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    TL;DR If you see either of these errors, check grep 'ERROR' /opt/avi/log/cc_agent_go_{{ cloud }} for the potential cause. In my case, the / character was not correctly processed by Avi's Golang client (facing vCenter). The Problem When trying to configure NSX ALB + NSX-T on my home lab, I am presented nothing but the …


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  • VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer - Installation

    calendar May 15, 2021 · 4 min read · Load Balancing VMWare IPv6 Datacenter Networking Avi BGP NSX-ALB  ·
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    Pre-Requisites Before beginning the Avi installer, I configured the following in my environment: Management Segment (NSX-T Overlay). This is set up with DHCP for quick automatic provisioning - no ephemeral addresses required Data Segments (NSX-T Overlay). Avi will build direct routes to IPs in this network for vIP …


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  • Leveraging Hyperglass and NSX-T!

    calendar May 9, 2021 · 3 min read · eBGP Datacenter Networking FOSS/Linux BGP Design Patterns Network Automation  ·
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    For this example deployment, I'll be using my NSX-T Lab as the fabric, VyOS for the Overloaded Router role, and trying out hyperglass: Installation (VyOS) I already have a base image for VyOS with its management VRF set up - and updating the base image prior to deployment is a breeze due to the vSphere 7 VM Template …


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  • PSA: PAN-OS Drops BGP peers with an invalid NLRI / Always filter inbound prefixes from Avi Vantage

    calendar May 2, 2021 · 2 min read · Datacenter Networking PAN-OS Routing & Switching Studies Avi BGP NSX-T NSX-ALB  ·
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    If Avi Vantage IPAM cannot allocate an address for a new vIP, it will advertise an all-zeros host address - 0.0.0.0/32: This will cause Palo Alto PAN-OS to restart a peer - even if it is not the immediate downstream prefix. Palo Alto uses routed as their dynamic routing engine - so this is probably default behavior …


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  • NSX-T Edge Transport Node Packet Captures

    calendar May 2, 2021 · 1 min read · VMWare Home Lab Datacenter Networking NSX-T  ·
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    NSX-T Edge Transport Node Packet Captures NSX-T Edge nodes have a rudimentary packet capture tool built in to the box. It is important to have a built-in tool here, as GENEVE encapsulation will wrap just about everything coming out of a transport node. NSX-T's CLI guide indicates the method for packet captures - from …


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  • VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer - Overview

    calendar Apr 3, 2021 · 5 min read · eBGP VMWare Home Lab IPv6 Datacenter Networking BGP NSX-T Network Automation  ·
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    Load Balancing is Important Load balancing is an important aspect of network mobility. How is a network useful if you can't move around within it? Cellular networks lose their appeal if you drop connectivity every time you roam between towers Wi-Fi networks are designed to facilitate smaller-scale movements. Imagine if …


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  • Design Pattern: Looking Glasses

    calendar Mar 22, 2021 · 3 min read · eBGP Python FOSS/Linux Network Automation Home Lab IPv6 Datacenter Networking iBGP Routing & Switching Studies BGP Programmability Design Patterns  ·
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    It's probably safe to say that service provider networking is pretty unique. One particular design pattern - Looking Glasses - is extremely useful for complex dynamically routed networks. I'd really like to shift the gatekeeping needle here - networks that are complex enough to benefit from a looking glass should move …


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  • Unearned Uptime - Present and Future Design Patterns

    calendar Mar 13, 2021 · 4 min read · Datacenter Networking NSX-T Design Patterns Unearned Uptime  ·
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    After all that meatspace talk, let's look at a few technical solutions and why they might not meet business needs in a specific setting. Shared Control Planes / Shared Failure Plane Shared Control Plane design patterns are prolific within the networking industry - and there's a continuum. Generally, a control plane …


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  • Unearned Uptime: Letting Old Ideas Go

    calendar Mar 13, 2021 · 5 min read · Datacenter Networking Routing & Switching Studies Design Patterns Unearned Uptime  ·
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    We don't always earn reliability with the systems we deploy, design, and maintain Infrastructure reliability is a pretty prickly subject for the community - we as engineers and designers tend to anthropomorphize, attach, and associate personal convictions with what we maintain. It's a natural pattern, but it inflicts a …


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  • NSX-T Transitive Networking

    calendar Jan 3, 2021 · 6 min read · eBGP VMWare Home Lab IPv6 Network Security Datacenter Networking Spine and Leaf BGP NSX-T  ·
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    One major advantage to NSX-T is that Edge Transport Nodes (ETNs) are transitive Transitivity (Wikipedia) (Consortium GARR) is an extremely important concept in network science, and in computer networking. In simple terms, a network node (any speaker capable of transmitting or receiving on a network) can have the …


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