Starting with NSX version 3.2 AVI load balancer integrates with NSX allowing users to deploy and configure AVI using NSX-T UI or API. As seen in NSX-T 3.2 release notes AVI is called NSX Advanced Load Balancer and is integrated into NSX-T, the NSX-T Native Load Balancer is going away. Excerpt of load balancer release […]
Stretch VSAN cluster error in VCF 4.3
Let’s talk about VCF a little bit. A recent VCF implementation conversation inspired this post. You received your hardware to deploy your VCF Management Domain or Workload Domain. Exciting times after a long wait! While you are preparing the host by installing the devices you need and the supported firmware is possible that your physical […]
Fix Issue: “Deleting or renaming a vDS uplink port fails” error
Welcome to another Baking Clouds post. You are maybe here because you are experiencing the error Deleting or renaming a vDS uplink port fails with: Uplink name is in use by the teaming policy defined at DVPort as documented in this KB article on vCenter Server 5.5 or above. It is unusual to experience this […]
NSX-T Migration Coordinator Troubleshooting Guide – Chapter 1
We will keep it short and direct to the point. You are here because you have intentions to use NSX-T migration coordinator for your NSX-V to NSX-T migration project for a smooth and easy migration. Or at least that is what we all expect right? Guess what. There are many reasons migration coordinator service can […]
VMworld 2021! Top sessions for NSX migration
Exciting news! VMware VMworld 2021, one of the most important events of the year, takes place on October 7-8 and will be virtually and with the slogan “Imagine that”.The ticket options are:General Pass. Get access to the general session, solution keynotes, breakout sessions, demos, hands-on labs, interactive simulations, and more. FREE!!!Tech + Pass, which includes general […]
NSX for vSphere migration series
NSX for vSphere is approaching End of General Support in 2022-01-16. Yes, that is January 2022, next year if you are reading this in 2021 or 150 days from today if you are reading this in 19-08-21. In other words, this means you have 30 workweeks to migrate. Plenty of time, so no need to get […]
Less than 80 days left for NSX-T 2.5 end of support. Plan your upgrade now
According VMware Lifecycle link here NSX-T 2.5 is reaching End of General Support on 2021-09-19 and End of Technical Guidance on 2022-09-19.
NSX-T Reference Guides you can’t miss in 2021. Save this
Good news!! NSX-T Security Reference Guide v1.3 has been released and published in the community. You can download the guide here. This guide comes with updates on these sections * Chapter -1: NSX Service-defined firewall value prop/positioning.* Chapter -2: NSX Use cases – What/why/how and NSX deployment Options.* Chapter -5: Best practices around Groups/Tags/Policy List of […]
Upgrading Intel NIC driver in a CentOS7 physical Linux machine
Physical machines running Linux still exists for various reasons like applications performance is not optimal in a virtual machine just to mention one example but many others reasons can exist. This post shows steps to get your Intel NIC driver to latest version available on Linux repo or Intel website.In my case I had a […]
Calico version 3.1 released!
Here’s a sample of some of the major themes from the release notes. Support for OpenStack Calico v3.1 reintroduces support for OpenStack. Existing users can upgrade their Calico OpenStack clusters to v3.1 by following the documented procedure. Introducing GlobalNetworkSets Calico now supports a new resource type: GlobalNetworkSet. A GlobalNetworkSet contains a set of CIDRs with […]