Load balance VMware Cloud Director traffic via NSX Advanced Load Balancer

I am doing a write-up about how to load balance VMware Cloud Director (VCD) cells (3) and console/proxy traffic with VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (NSX ALB / AVI). Hopefully, this will enable someone to successfully implement NSX ALB as a Load Balancer solution for non-tenant VCD traffic.

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Carbon Black Workload Protection and VMware Tools Compatibility

It might be a no brainer, but I think this post will save some time for people if they are using the google search engine well. It took me too much time to figure this out for such a simple thing as this.

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HomeLab Setup

Since I passed my VCDX defense back in september this year (2020) I heavily invested in new goods for my homelab. See this blogpost for some detailed hardware information that I’ve chosen for my homelab. Any questions? Please feel free to reach out to me.

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Reunited with the Orange Glasses Family

Not so long ago I blogged about a job change, moving from ITQ to AnyLinQ. And it’s happening again! Although now, I heading back to my former employer ITQ Consultancy based in the Benelux.

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vNSTechCon Presentation : NSX-T Multisite scenarios (Dutch)

On the 29th of October 2020 the yearly #vNSTechCon was held. Due to Covid-19 regulations this event was for the first time a virtual one.

The vNSTechCon is an event dedicated to VMware related Networking & Security and the surrounding ecosystem within the Netherlands. The event is community-driven where gaining knowledge and networking are the main goals.

My presentation about NSX-T with different scenarios for multisite has been recorded and can be watched below.

In this session Wesley will show you the different options you have in setting up a multisite data center with NSX-T. How do you set up an active-active or active-passive topology, and what you can do with disaster recovery.
Wesley also gives a brief overview of a new feature within NSX-T 3.0; NSX-T data center federation.