Category: NSX
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How can I use NAT on NSX-T?
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn this article, we’ll show you an example of how to use NAT on NSX-T. First and foremost, what is NAT? NAT is an acronym for Network Address Translation and acts as a translator of IP addresses – an example of NAT usage in providing Internet access to internal devices. In this…
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How to Administratively Disable a BGP Peer on NSX
Reading Time: 4 minutesHow to Administratively Disable a BGP Peer on NSX is an article that aims to show how to disable a BGP peer administratively. Disabling a BGP peer to stop the neighborhood between them can be helpful or necessary in some situations. For instance, the Tier-0 gateway has two BGP neighbors in the…
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VMs Are Unable to Connect in the NSX Environment
Reading Time: 4 minutesVMs Are Unable to Connect in the NSX Environment is an article that shows a simple workflow to debug a VM connection issue. In this article, for instance, we are considering both VMs placed in the same NSX segment (VM A and VM B) but running on different ESXi hosts (different Host…
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NSX Distributed Firewall Challenge Scenario
Reading Time: 6 minutesNSX Distributed Firewall Challenge Scenario shows a scenario with a connectivity issue between two VMs placed on the same segment. The challenge here is to understand the issue by using troubleshooting techniques and fix the issue. Let’s talk a little about the scenario: What is the issue? From the VM “sa-infosec-03” the…
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Explaining How Inter SR iBGP Works in the NSX
Reading Time: 5 minutesExplaining 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…
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Routing Down on Tier-0 Service Router
Reading Time: 8 minutesRouting 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…
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Accessing the root privileged mode from the NSX CLI
Reading Time: 3 minutesAccessing 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…
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Deploying the VMware Aria Operations for Networks
Reading Time: 6 minutesDeploying 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…
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Installing a VMware Aria Operation for Logs Content Pack for NSX
Reading Time: 6 minutesInstalling 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…
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Collecting Support Bundle on the NSX Environment
Reading Time: 3 minutesCollecting 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…
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Running a 3-Tier Application in the NSX
Reading Time: 7 minutesRunning a 3-Tier Application in the NSX will show details of the 3-Tier application model and how to create NSX DFW rules just to restrict access to a 3-Tier Application. 3-Tier Application Diagram So, in the below picture, we have an example of our 3-Tier application diagram. As we can see, we…
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Implementing NSX Micro-Segmentation
Reading Time: 8 minutesImplementing NSX Micro-Segmentation is an article that introduces how we can use the powerful distributed firewall to protect the workload inside the NSX, even in the same broadcast domain. First and Foremost, Do you talk about distributed firewalls? What is this and how does it work? DFW is the acronym for Distributed…