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  • Cloud-Scale Networking: NSX Datacenter Hierarchical Tier-0s, blending telecom with cloud

    calendar Mar 12, 2022 · 7 min read · eBGP VMWare Datacenter Networking BGP NSX-T Programmability Design Patterns Network Automation  ·
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    VMware's NSX Datacenter product is designed for a bit more than single enterprise virtual networking and security. When reviewing platform maximums (NSX-T 3.2 ConfigMax), the listed maximum number of Tier-1 routers is 4,000 logical routers. Achieving that number takes a degree of intentional design, however. When …


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  • VMware NSX-T and Ansible

    calendar Mar 6, 2022 · 4 min read · VMWare BGP NSX-T Programmability Ansible Network Automation  ·
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    What is the point of all this software-defined infrastructure if you don't use it? In prior examples, it's a fairly straightforward path to SDN when deploying NSX Data Center, allowing a VI admin or network engineer to deploy virtual network resources via a GUI. This isn't the end of an effort, but the start of a …


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  • GitOps with NSX Advanced Load Balancer and Jenkins

    calendar Jan 16, 2022 · 6 min read · Load Balancing VMWare Avi GitOps Jenkins JSON Design Patterns Network Automation NSX-ALB  ·
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    GitOps GitOps, a term coined in 2017, describes the practice of performing infrastructure operations from a Git repository. In this practice, we easily develop the ability to re-deploy any broken infrastructure (like application managers), but that doesn't really help infrastructure engineers. From the perspective of …


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  • Leverage Idempotent, Declarative Profiles with the NSX-ALB (Avi) REST API

    calendar Jan 2, 2022 · 5 min read · Load Balancing TLS VMWare Network Security Python Avi Programmability Design Patterns Network Automation NSX-ALB  ·
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    Idempotence and Declarative Methods - not just buzzwords Idempotence Coined by Benjamin Peirce, this term indicates that a mathematical operation will produce a consistent result, even with repetition. Idempotence is much more complicated subject in mathematics and computer science. IT and DevOps use a simplified …


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  • The winds of change in cloud operations, and why integrations like NSX Data Center 3.2 + Advanced Load Balancer are important

    calendar Dec 26, 2021 · 4 min read · Load Balancing VMWare Datacenter Networking Avi NSX-T  ·
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    **Note: This feature has been deprecated by VMware The Jetstreams Cloud operators now provide two completely different classes of service to customers: Self-Service, VMs, Operating System Templates Generally mature, some private cloud operators are smoothing out CMPs or such, but work as intended from a customer …


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  • NSX-T 3.2 and NSX ALB (Avi) Deployment Error - "Controller is not reachable. {0}"

    calendar Dec 22, 2021 · 2 min read · Load Balancing VMWare Python Avi NSX-T Programmability NSX-ALB  ·
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    Note: This feature has been deprecated by VMware NSX-T 3.2 has been released, and has a ton of spiffy features. The NSX ALB integration is particularly neat, but while repeatedly (repeatably) breaking the integration to learn more about it, I ran into this error: When deploying NSX ALB appliances from the NSX Manager, …


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  • VyOS and other Linux builds unable to use vmxnet3 or "VMware Paravirtual SCSI" adapter on vSphere

    calendar Dec 4, 2021 · 4 min read · Linux VMWare vSphere NFV Design Patterns  ·
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    Have you seen this selector when building machines on vSphere? This causes some fairly common issues in NOS VMs, as most don't really know what distribution the NOS is based on. "Guest OS Version" doesn't just categorize your workload, though. Selecting "Other Linux" instructs vSphere to maximize …


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  • Get rid of certificate errors with Avi (NSX-ALB) and Hashicorp Vault!

    calendar Oct 10, 2021 · 7 min read · Load Balancing TLS VMWare Network Security Avi NSX-ALB  ·
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    Have you ever seen this error before? This is a really important issue in enterprise infrastructure because unauthenticated TLS connections teach our end users to be complacent and ignore this error. TLS Authentication SSL/TLS for internal enterprise administration typically only addresses the confidentiality aspects …


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  • VMware NSX ALB (Avi Networks) and NSX-T Integration, Installation

    calendar Sep 10, 2021 · 4 min read · Load Balancing VMWare Avi BGP NSX-T NSX-ALB  ·
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    Note: I created a common baseline for pre-requisites in this previous post. We'll be following VMware's Avi + NSX-T Design guide. This will be a complete re-install. Avi Vantage appears to develop some tight coupling issues with using the same vCenter for both Layer 2 and NSX-T deployments - which is not an issue that …


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  • vCenter - File system /storage/log is low on storage space

    calendar Sep 3, 2021 · 3 min read · VMWare vCenter VCSA  ·
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    After a recent VCSA reboot, I was seeing the infamous no healthy upstream error from vCenter. The first place to check for issues like this is VMware's Virtual Appliance Management Interface (VAMI), located by default via HTTPS on port 5480. An administrator can use the appliance root password for this particular …


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