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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.

Named Teaming Policy in NSX-T 2.5 – Load Balancing Deep Dive

I’m working on an NSX-T 2.5 design for a customer. Since there are some changes with the load balancing options and design scenarios for Edge Node VMs and N-VDS, I first wanted to know what was changed, and how did it work.

Named Teaming Policies is a feature in that was introduced in NSX-T 2.3 and since NSX-T  2.4 a N-VDS can have multiple Named Teaming Policies attached. This section becomes now even more interesting since the NSX-T Edge Node recommended design has changed with NSX-T 2.5. See this blogpost from Rutger Blom to gain more information about this change.

In this blogpost I’m only focusing on the load balancing part itself when you make use of multiple teaming policies and not how to configure it.

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Using BGP with VMware Enterprise PKS and NSX-T

I recently started investing some time into the ”cool kid stuff’; VMware Enterprise PKS, and Kubernetes. I started with reading some blogs, watching some video’s online and reading official documentation. After a while, I started deploying PKS in my lab and tried to integrate it with NSX-T. The blogs I was using were not talking about dynamic routing at all, only doing static routes. Even the Pivotal documentation set is not mentioning BGP setup in that much detail. Only for the Multi-Tenant PKS deployments. I’m not talking about other dynamic routing protocols because NSX-T only supports BGP.

Most of the times customers who are deploying PKS or considering PKS are running dynamic routing protocols in their environments. Therefore, I’m writing this blog to share how I did my BGP setup within NSX-T and PKS, and then specifically for the route redistribution part. (more…)