VXLAN

  • NSX-TVMware-NSX-T-Performance-Tips-and-Tuning

    VMware NSX-T Performance Tips and Tuning

    NSX-T is VMware’s virtual networking solution moving forward that is hypervisor agnostic and not specifically tied to VMware vSphere. If you are looking at moving to NSX-T as your network “hypervisor”, there are certain tweaks and hardware features that you…

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    VMware NSX Layer 2 Bridge Configuration

    I have been playing around a lot with NSX in the home lab lately and decided to revisit the NSX Layer 2 Bridge functionality especially since now much of the configuration can be done in the HTML 5 interface. The…

  • Computersnsxmanup13

    Upgrading VMware NSX to 6.3.2 NSX Manager

    VMware NSX is an exciting network virtualization platform that is being developed at a fairly aggressive pace. ย Each upgrade provides additional features and or bug fixes to an existing NSX installation. ย VMware has a fairly ironed out process to upgrade…

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    Extend layer 2 DR network with VMware NSX

    One of the especially tricky things that you have to deal with when thinking about a DR situation where you have a failover to another location is network connectivity. This comes into play especially with legacy applications that may have…

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    What is VMware NSX VXLAN

    In today’s world, resources are virtualized and abstracted from the underlying physical hardware. ย We see this in the world of hypervisors including compute, storage, and networks. ย VMware’s NSX allows for the network to be abstracted from the underlying physical network…

  • NSXnsxjumbo04

    Troubleshooting NSX VXLAN jumbo frames in nested lab

    In working recently in a nested VMware environment running three clusters and NSX, I ran into a jumbo frames issue with VXLAN connectivity across the clusters. ย I was simulating different WAN/subnet environments using an Untangle appliance as a router in…