NSX Bytes: Updated - NSX Edge Feature and Performance Matrix
A question came up today around throughput numbers for an NSX Edge Services Gateway and that jogged my memory back to a previous blog post where I compared f...
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NSX Bytes: vCloud Director Can't Deploy NSX Edges
Over the weekend I was tasked with the recovery of a #NestedESXi lab that had vCloud Director and NSX-v components as part of the lab platform. Rather than b...
NSX Bytes: NSX 6.2.3 and vShield Endpoint Clarification
NSX-v 6.2.3 has been out for a couple of weeks now and besides the new features and bug fixes there was a significant change to the licensing structure for N...
NSX Bytes: Critical Update for NSX-v and vCNS
I generally don’t post around security releases but after going through the notes on CVE-2016-2079 I thought it was important enough to dedicate a post aroun...
Important - vCNS and NSX End of Availability and Support Notifications
For a while now we have known that vCloud Networking and Security's days where numbered ...with the release of NSX as a replacement+ product it had been comm...
NSX Bytes: NSX Edge - High Availability Status Down
In doing some testing around NSX Edge deployment scenarios I came across a small quirk in the High Availability Config for the NSX Edge Gateway where by afte...
NSX Edge vs vShield Edge: Part 3 – IPsec and L2 VPN
Overview : NSX and vShield Edges support site to site IPSec VPN between Edge instances and remote sites. Behind each remote VPN router, you can configure mul...
NSX Edge vs vShield Edge: Part 2 – High Availability
Overview : High Availability in both VSE and NSX Edges ensures Edge Network Services are always available by deploying a pair of Edge Appliances that work to...
NSX Edge vs vShield Edge: Part 1 - Feature and Performance Matrix
I was having a discussion internally about why we where looking to productize the NSX Edges for our vCloud Director Virtual Datacenter offering over the exis...
NSX vCloud Retrofit: Upgrade Issue - Edge Gateway Unmanageable in vCloud Director or Deployment Fails
We have been working with VMware GSS on an issue for a number of weeks whereby we were seeing some vShield Edge devices go into an unmanageable state from wi...
NSX vCloud Retrofit: NSX Manager Configuration and vCD VSE Deployment Validation
This blog series extends my NSX Bytes Blog Posts to include a more detailed look at how to deploy NSX 6.1.x into an existing vCloud Director Environment. Ini...
NSX vCloud Retrofit: Intro and VSM to NSX Manager Upgrade
Part 1: Intro and VSM to NSX Manager Upgrade Part 2: NSX Manager Configuration and vCD VSE Deployment Validation Part 3: Controller Deployment, Host Preparat...
NSX Bytes: Deploying vShield Endpoint with NSX Manager
I recently had to deploy a solution into our Labs that required the installation of vShield Endpoint VMs to facilitate a 3rd Party service. No worries there....
NSX Bytes: Upgrading vShield Manager with NSX Bundle Fails
This is a really quick NSX Byte..but one that could save you some head scratching when looking to upgrade your vShield Manager to the NSX Manager. If you get...
Upgrading vShield Manager 5.0.x - A Leap of Faith Upgrade
Having recently just completed the upgrading our vCloud Platform from 1.5 to 5.1 I thought it best to share my experiences around the upgrading of the vShiel...