VCF9 – Enable Supervisor using 3 Zones

Okey, if you're following along on the blog series, now we're getting to the fun stuff! To recap, at this point i've created 3 clusters in a Workload Domain, and also deployed a NSX Edge-Cluster that spans two of the Clusters to gain high availability on network ingress/egress. The first thing we need to is … Continue reading VCF9 – Enable Supervisor using 3 Zones →

VCF9 – Deploy NSX Edge-Cluster

After you've deployed a Workload Domain, or a new Cluster, you may want to deploy an NSX Edge-Cluster. You should be aware that there are now two methods you can use to get traffic into, and out of your SDN when using VPCs. These are called Centralized and Distributed Transit Gateway. You can read more … Continue reading VCF9 – Deploy NSX Edge-Cluster →

Part 11 – VCF Automation – Constraints

VCF Automation will always try to find the most appropriate location to provision VMs to while taking things into consideration. If you've specified that the VM should be specifically deployed to a network labeled Production, then naturally all the clusters that meets all requirements except for having that Network will be filtered out as suitable … Continue reading Part 11 – VCF Automation – Constraints →

Part 7 – VCF Automation – NSX infra Microsegmentation

NSX microsegmentation will have two parts, one that explains how we can enforce security at a larger scale, and one that explains how we can create segmentation internally within a deployment. Wide/Infra microsegmentation When some people hear microsegmentation, they think they need to start by locking down everything at it's smallest component. That will be … Continue reading Part 7 – VCF Automation – NSX infra Microsegmentation →