I have been doing Kubernetes with NSX-T demonstrations to my customers and many of my colleagues and partners have been asking for the demo list. Here is the list. 1. Create a NO-NAT namespace 2. Deploy Yelb App with NSX-T K8s Service Type Load Balancer 3. Native Routable IP Address for Pod Networking 4. K8s… Read More »
NSX Intelligence has GA! Installation Steps coming.. However, ran into some issues. Will have to troubleshoot.
Kubernetes clusters that is Master Nodes and Worker Nodes were designed to work in a Local Area Network(LAN) environment. They are not recommended to be distributed across multiple Data Centers. 2 Data Centers Active Active Design If you have 2 Data Centers, I would recommend the following design for Active Active setup. Dedicated Kubernetes Clusters… Read More »
The purpose of this blog post is to describe the NSX Container Plugin (NCP) Architecture in detail so that you will have a good understanding of why is it created, what are the components and how it works. With that knowledge, hopefully it will comes in handy when you require to perform troubleshooting when things… Read More »
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 »