A brief blog entry and a somewhat dated “cookbook” which is in the process of being updated, but I learnt of a great use case for NSX to support extensibility of SoftLayer deployments. When the updated cookbook is available, I will share… http://wpc.c320.edgecastcdn.net/00C320/VMware_at_SoftLayer_CookBook…
vSphere 6.0 has been GA’ed for a few months and I have been seeing more customers performing vSphere 6.0 validation in preparation for upgrades to their existing environments or net new deployments. To support vSphere 6.0 GA, NSX was updated with provide vSphere 6.0 compatibility and today (July 22nd), NSX 6.1.4 is the current and latest version of NSX for vSphere 5.5 and 6.0 environments.
vSphere 6.0 includes major management architecture changes and this blog article clarifies what is supported today and what will be supported in the up and coming version of NSX 6.2…
A great feature added to the Cisco UCS V2+ is the ability to map VLANs to specific Port Channel uplinks and/or Ethernet uplinks. This seems pretty straight forward, but this was not available in V1 and I am finding customers who are not aware of this capability…
There are some great blogs detailing NSX installation and Scott Lowe’s NVP/NSX installation blog is pretty comprehensive, so no need to review all the steps to deploy NSX… The following post covers adding the ESXi Hypervisor to a NSX Multi Hypervisor domain. I do not cover the steps required to add ESXi to OpenStack – that will be a future post…
NTP synchronization across controllers and transport nodes is an important part of NSX operation and is covered in the NSX-MH User Guide.
The following linux command ntpdate -q host-to-verify allows you to validate time offset from the host you run the command from…