Category: NSX

Reading Time: 3 minutesDHCP Server on NSX-T is an article that provides all the steps to set up a DHCP Server on an NSX-T Segment. With this configuration, NSX-T will be your DHCP Server for the specific NSX-T Segment. First and Foremost, What is DHCP? Basically, DHCP is an acronym for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.…

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Reading Time: 5 minutesConfiguring DNS Service on NSX-T is an article that provides the necessary steps to configure the DNS Forwarder service on the NSX-T environment. DNS is the acronym for Domain Name Server. This network protocol translates DNS names/FQDN to IP addresses (and vice versa). In the picture below, we have an example of…

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Reading Time: 6 minutesNetwork Address Translation (NAT) on NSX-T is an article that explains some ways to use the NAT on NSX-T. We will provide some examples of SNAT (Source NAT) and DNAT (Destination NAT). First and Foremost, What is NAT? When we are talking about NAT, we are talking about some techniques when it…

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Reading Time: 5 minutesWhat is NSX-T DFW is an article that explains a little bit about the NSX-T Distributed Firewall and how rules are applied on Hosts Transport Nodes. Security is a subject that needs careful attention for all administrators at all levels of business (from small to bigger companies). Cybercrime is more sophisticated and…

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Reading Time: 5 minutesHow to Restore NSX Manager from Backup is an article that explains the process of restoring the NSX Manager from a valid backup. Backup… Backup… Backup… this is an important subject that always we are talking about. In a practical way, few people really are careful about this. For the NSX-T environment,…

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Reading Time: 4 minutesHow to configure DHCP Relay for an NSX-T Segment is an article that explains how VMs inside an NSX-T Segment can acquire an IP address from an external DHCP Server. Firstly, What is DHCP? I researched on the Internet and found a good explanation for DHCP: “Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is…

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Reading Time: 3 minutesJoin an NSX Manager Appliance Manually is an article that explains how to join an NSX Manager Appliance manually into an NSX Manager Cluster. Firstly, if you need to know all steps to deploy the first NSX Manager Appliance, we have an article that shows how to do it:https://dpcvirtualtips.com/nsx-manager-deployment-steps/ Also, after the…

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Reading Time: 2 minutesManual Removal of an NSX Manager Appliance is an article that explains the process of manually removing an NSX Manager Appliance from the NSX Manager Cluster. VMware recommends that the first NSX Manager Appliance deployment is done from vSphere Client. To deploy additional NSX Manager Appliances, we can use the NSX Manager…

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Reading Time: 2 minutesRemoving NSX Manager VIP Configuration is an article that explains all steps to remove the NSX Manager Virtual IP configuration. Firstly, if you need to understand what steps are necessary to deploy the NSX Manager, we have an article that explains these steps. We can see all details by clicking on the…

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Reading Time: 3 minutesNSX-T Data Plane Introduction is an article that explains some details about the NSX-T Data Plane layer in the NSX-T Data Center solution. Inside NSX-T, basically, we have three layers or planes:–> Management plane–> Control plane–> Data plane Both the Management and Control planes are in the NSX Manager Cluster, and the…

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Reading Time: 4 minutesHow to configure backup on the NSX Manager is an article that explains how to configure automatic backup for the NSX Manager data. On the NSX-T Data Center, we have a lot of critical components and it is crucial to have a working backup and restore plan. Nowadays, is usually using VMware…

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Reading Time: 3 minutesConfiguring NSX Manager Virtual IP is an article that explains how to configure the Virtual IP (VIP) on NSX Manager for redundancy purposes. If you are interested to know more about NSX-T, we wrote an article that introduces the NSX-T Data Center. Click here to read the article. Also, we wrote an…

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