Author: Danilo

Infrastructure Engineer with experience in Virtualization, Linux, Windows Server and learning automation using Python. DPC Virtual Tips was created to share practical tutorials, lab experiences and troubleshooting guides focused on enterprise infrastructure technologies.

Explaining how inter SR iBGP works in the NSX is an article that provides an example of how the inter SR iBGP routing process works in advertising routes between Edge Transport Nodes in a Tier-0 Gateway. I want to talk about some NSX articles that we wrote. These articles are about NSX Introduction, NSX Manager (How to Deploy an NSX Management Cluster), about micro-segmentation, about NSX ALB (Advanced Load Balancer), and so on. So, feel free to check each one by accessing the following link:NSX Archives – DPC Virtual Tips Warning: To explain how inter SR iBGP works in the…

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Routing Down on Tier-0 Service Router is an article that explains what happens if a Tier-0 Service Router (SR) loses its routing adjacencies. As we know, in the NSX world we have two gateway types: Both gateways are hosted in the Edge Transport Node device!Each one is responsible for some activities in the NSX topology and has different characteristics.We wrote an article that shows some examples of NSX topologies and the meaning of each gateway type and its interfaces. You can access this article by clicking on the following link:Some Examples of NSX Topologies – DPC Virtual Tips T0 Service…

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Accessing the root privileged mode from the NSX CLI is an article that shows how to change from admin to root shell in the NSX Manager Appliance. First and foremost, we wrote some articles related to the NSX. The first one is an introduction to NSX-T. You can access this article by the following link:Introduction to NSX-T – DPC Virtual Tips Another one has all the necessary steps to deploy the NSX Manager Cluster:NSX Manager Deployment Steps – DPC Virtual Tips A little introduction of NSX Manager users By default, during the NSX Manager deployment, we need to set up…

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Deploying the VMware Aria Operations for Networks is an article that shows all the necessary steps to deploy this powerful tool to maintain and monitor your network environment. About VMware Aria Operations for Networks VMware Aria Operations for Networks provides a converged operations plane between virtual and physical networks.You discover, optimize, and troubleshoot applications from the data center to the cloud to the branch.We can integrate a log of devices with this powerful tool, such as VMware SD-WAN solution, Physical Routers and Switches, Firewalls, Load Balancers, the NSX virtual infrastructure, Containers, and Public Clouds.In simple words, this tool can help…

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Installing a VMware Aria Operations for Logs Content Pack for NSX is an article that shows how to install the content pack for NSX in VMware Aria Operations for Logs. Before anything, we wrote some articles about VMware Aria Operations for Logs. The first one is How to Deploy VMware Aria Operations for Logs. In this article is possible to know what is it and how to install it:How to Deploy VMware Aria Operations for Logs – DPC Virtual Tips The second one is Clustering VMware Aria Operations for Logs. Here, we can create a cluster of VMware Aria Operations…

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Collecting Support Bundle on the NSX Environment is an article that explains how to generate a bundle of log components present in the NSX architecture. For some people, this task can be straightforward, but for others can be difficult mainly when the people have not done it before. So, our aim here is just to provide all the necessary steps to create the log bundle for all components present in the NSX. First and foremost, what is the reason or purpose for generating a support bundle? Generating a support bundle is a useful task when we need to engage VMware…

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