Month: February 2017

NSX Install Guide Part 2 – Data Plane

NSX Install Guide Part 2 – Data Plane — via ESXsi

NSX Install Guide Part 2 – Data Plane

In Part 1 we looked at the overall design of the environment and official documentation, as well as preparing the management and control planes by installing NSX Manager and an NSX Controller cluster. In this post we will focus on installing components in the data plane; preparing the hosts for NSX, configuring VXLAN, VTEP interfaces, Transport Zones, and creating a logical switch. To complete the routing configuration Part 3 will walk through NSX Edge and Distributed Logical Routers.

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What’s New in VMware vCloud Director 8.20 —…

What’s New in VMware vCloud Director 8.20 — Technical White Paper

What’s New in VMware vCloud Director 8.20 —…

vCloud Director 8.20 includes major functional updates. The solution now integrates more closely with VMware NSX® network virtualization, which means that end users will be able customize many network settings.

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Learn Advance PowerCLI in under 100 minutes

Learn Advance PowerCLI in under 100 minutes — via Anything Virtual and Cloudy

Learn Advance PowerCLI in under 100 minutes

Automation in a virtualised datacenter is must for any IT-Admin. PowerShell is perhaps the most important tool in such virtualised datacenter. For VMware environment PowerCLI provides that capability to the admins. This is the second session on PowerCLI, covering the advance topics. If you are just starting or plan to start with PowerShell, then first read the first part and come back here.

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vRA 7.2 DIG – 06.1, NSX Load Balancer Config

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vRA 7.2 DIG – 06.1, NSX Load Balancer Config

Next we’ll be configuring load balancing and high availability policies for the distributed components. An NSX Edge Service Gateway (ESG) will be providing the load balancing and availability services to vRA as an infrastructure service. vRA supports In-Line and One-Arm load balancing policies. This implementation will be based on an In-Line configuration, where the vRA nodes and the load balancer VIPs are on the same subnet.

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VMworld 2017 Call for Papers is now open!

VMworld 2017 Call for Papers is now open!

VMworld 2017 Call for Papers is now open!

We’re looking for speakers who will inspire the VMware community. Have you integrated VMware solutions and technologies in an innovative way? Do you have a best practice or individual technical tips and tricks to recommend? Can you tell us about an amazing app that leverages VMware solutions to improve your business? If so, please join us at VMworld 2017.

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Deploying WordPress in vSphere Integrated…

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Deploying WordPress in vSphere Integrated…

WordPress is a popular, open-source tool for the agile deployment of a blogging system. In this article, we offer a step-by-step guide for deploying WordPress in vSphere Integrated Containers. This involves creating two containers: one running a mysql database and the other running the wordpress web server. We provide three options:

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NSX-V 6.3: Cross-VC NSX Security Enhancements

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NSX-V 6.3: Cross-VC NSX Security Enhancements

In this blog post I’ll discuss the new Cross-VC NSX security enhancements in NSX-V 6.3. For additional information on Cross-VC NSX check-out my prior Cross-VC NSX blog posts.

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