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…
So first, a big shout out to my new friends Sam, Anna, and Ashley at the Marriott Fashion Center Chandler – They are awesome, but today they are also my favorite data center network engineers and they did not even know it…
I would like to review what a data center network would look like before and after network virtualization and the benefits gained.
The network topology shown here is very common between customers, although physically, size and scale of the number of switches, routers, and firewalls can be very different…
A customer question came up asking about what changes need to be made to the physical network when logical networks are created….