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 »
If you have been to be my NSX sessions or experience days, you probably might have seen this NSX Lucky Draw App that I created for my demos. I have been asked a few times to share this application and also over last year or so when I deal more with containers, I always wanted… Read More »
In this article, we will integrate NSX-T NCP and CNI to Openshift. Step 01: Tag the Logical Switches Ports connected to OCP-Master, OCP-Node01 and OCP-Node02 VMs. NSX-T Manager -> Switching -> LS-VIFs -> Related -> Ports -> Click on the respective logical ports -> Actions -> Manage Tags * You can highlight the port… Read More »
In this article, we will use Ansible to install Openshift 3.9. On the Master node: nano /usr/share/ansible/openshift-ansible/roles/lib_utils/action_plugins/sanity_checks.py add then (‘openshift_use_nsx’,False. cd /root wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vincenthanjs/openshift-nsxt/master/hosts cp hosts /etc/ansible/ -f cd /etc/ansible/ htpasswd -c /root/htpasswd admin If the above URL does not work. you can copy and paste the below into /etc/ansible/hosts #This is the file you replace… Read More »