VXLAN
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NSX-T
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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NSX
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…
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Computers
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. Each upgrade provides additional features and or bug fixes to an existing NSX installation. VMware has a fairly ironed out process to upgrade…
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NSX
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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NSX
What is VMware NSX VXLAN
In today’s world, resources are virtualized and abstracted from the underlying physical hardware. We see this in the world of hypervisors including compute, storage, and networks. VMware’s NSX allows for the network to be abstracted from the underlying physical network…
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NSX
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. I was simulating different WAN/subnet environments using an Untangle appliance as a router in…
