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 NSX-T version 2.3 . I already had PAS version 2.3 installed but not started with the NSX-T tile yet. ...

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. vCenter Config Director Config Create Availability Zones Create Networks. At vCenter, you should be able to see the NSX-T Logical switches. I have created LS-PAS-Infrastructure, LS-PAS-Deployment and LS-PAS-Services. ...

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 = CA_default [ CA_default ] # Directory and file locations. dir = ./ ...

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 also means no more hiding behind the camera like I always do for the rest of my youtube channel. ...

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 was successful (Yeah! VCDX #271!) and therefore, its time for this post. Its a long journey, looking back to 2013-2014 where I first decided to make VCDX my goal. ...

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 to “dockerize” my lucky draw app. BUT… due to my busy schedule with VCDX-NV, I keep putting this off. ...