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The Tier-0 gateway in the NSX-T Edge cluster provides a gateway service between the logical and physical network. While an NSX-T Edge cluster can back multiple Tier-0 gateways, there can be only one Tier-0 gateway per edge node. 1. Login to the user interface of NSX-T Manager. 2. On the […]
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1. Login to the user interface of NSX-T Manager. 2. On the main navigation bar, click System. Select Backup & Restore from the navigation pane. 3. Click Edit: Enter the IP or host name of the backup file server in the IP/Host name text box. Change the default port if […]
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1. Login to the user interface of NSX-T Manager. 2. On the main navigation bar, click System. Navigate to Fabric > Transport Zones and click Add. 3. On the New Transport Zone page: Enter a Name and Description. Enter a N-VDS Name. Select the Standard as the Host Membership Criteria. […]
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We will go through the deployment of NSX-T Manager Appliance. Download the NSX-T for VMware ESXi OVA file from the VMware web site. Connect to vCenter server with vSphere web client and then deploy OVF template. Choose Local File, click Browse and select the ‘nsx-unified-appliance’ OVA file. Click Next. Enter […]
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Foundational micro-segmentation can be deployed with the VMware vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) without full stack NSX components, such as distribute logical router (DLR), NSX Edge services gateways, and others. A NSX Manager VM is the only VM that needs to be deployed to implement Distributed Firewall (DFW), which is non-disruptive. […]
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An NSX Edge logical router provides routing and bridging functionality. With distributed routing, virtual machines that reside on the same host on different subnets can communicate with one another without having to traverse a traditional routing interface. 1. Log in to the vSphere Web Client and click Networking & Security. […]
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A logical switch reproduces Layer 2 and Layer 3 functionality (unicast, multicast, or broadcast) in a virtual environment completely decoupled from underlying hardware. Log in to the vSphere Web Client and click Networking & Security. Select Logical Switches under the Networking & Security section. Click the green + icon to […]
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The NSX for vSphere control plane manages logical networks and the overlay transport, and it must be configured in one of the following modes: Multicast Mode ‒ If multicast replication mode is chosen for a given logical switch, VMware NSX relies on the Layer 2 and Layer 3 multicast capability […]
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The VMware NSX Manager virtual appliance can be installed on an ESXi host in a cluster configured with VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler. NSX Manager can be managed in a different VMware vCenter Server. The resource requirements are: 4 vCPUs 16 GB of memory (16 GB are reserved) 60 GB […]
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