The last few blog posts I wrote about the installation steps for Openshift Container Platform (OCP) with NSX-T NCP attracted some good interest from the community as well as VMware internal folks. However, those materials were written quite awhile back and some of software used then were not up to date. My customers were also… Read More »
Many of you might not be aware, Openshift Container Platform 3.11 now has native integration with VMware NSX-T! The ansible playbooks for installing NCP and CNI for Openshift has be merged into the official 3.11 deploy-cluster playbooks. If you are interested, you can take a look at the github repo here. Last two weeks, I… Read More »
Normally for my lab or POC, I will use NSX-T admin and password for integration. However, in a production environment, customer might not accept that and therefore you might need to result to using certificate for API access. In this blog post, I will show you how to create the certificate and key to be… Read More »
Populating the NSGroups via OpsManager The NSGroups we created which will be used as server pool for the NSX-T LB are empty, we need to use OpsManager to populate the entries into the NSGroups. The following steps are carried out after you have successfully configured the PAS Tile. The Installation Dashboard of Ops Manager should… Read More »
T1 Routers & Logical Switches Create T1 Router – T1-PAS-Infrastructure. Edge cluster is not needed for this T1 router. Create Logical Switch LS-PAS-Infrastructure. Create Router port on the T1 and connect to the LS. IP Address: 10.11.24.1/24 On the T1, enable route advertisement options. Create T1 Router – T1-PAS-Infrastructure. Attach an Edge cluster to… Read More »
Long overdue. Has always wanted to upgrade my non-nested NSX-T environment which was still running on 2.1 but putting on hold because I wanted to blog about and record the upgrading process. The big motivation for the upgrade was due to the Pivotal Application Service(PAS) as there were some significant improvements for Load Balancer with… Read More »
Please setup the NSX-T Networks before deploying PAS Ops Manager. You can refer to this blog post to prepare the NSX-T. http://blog.acepod.com/?p=953 After you deploy the VM using the ova – pcf-vsphere-2.3-build.170.ova. 1. vCenter Config 2. Director Config 3. Create Availability Zones 4. Create Networks. At vCenter, you should be able to see the NSX-T… Read More »
1. Error connecting to NSX IP: The NSX server’s certificate is not signed with the provided NSX CA cert. 2.You will need a linux machine to create an AD cert and sign it. Create the following folders. mkdir cnf mkdir certs mkdir private touch cnf/ca.cnf nano cnf/ca.cnf [root@pks-kube02 ~]# cat cnf/ca.cnf [ ca ] default_ca… Read More »
As part of this year vFORUMOnline 2018, I have the opportunity to do a lightboard session. Its my first lightboard session and its about introduction to container network & security using NSX-T DC. Very interesting experience indeed. This is also my very first time where I have my face in a video release online. This… Read More »
First, I would like to give some context to this blog post. I wrote part of this one day after my first VCDX-NV Defense at Palo Alto in Dec 2017 but decided not to post it because I wasn’t successful then. Well, its another 9 months where I submitted again and this time round I… Read More »