I learned something today, which in hindsight is obvious. Hopefully this helps someone that runs into the same "strange" (but not so strange) behavior. I created the following topology today, to prepare for some NSX-T demo I am giving tomorrow: What I (among other stuff) wanted to show, was that routing between Test-Segments "D" and …
Install a signed certificate for vRealize Network Insight
Within our demonstration environment (the PQR Experience Center), we are running a multitude of SDDC-products from VMware. Most of them have been signed by a CA-based certificate, but today we found out that our vRNI server is still running with the self-signed certificate. Time to change this! I have looked at the procedure at https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2148128, …
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Integrating NSX-T with Active Directory for RBAC (through VMware Identity Manager)
So after using NSX-T for a while, with the built-in admin account, it is time to look into using RBAC for some granular control over who is allowed to do what, within NSX. So with NSX-T it isn't as straight forward as it was in NSX-V. Integrating logins with AD requires a bit more work. …
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Resetting expired admin password on NSX-T
So apparently it has been 90 days since the deployment of NSX-T and therefor, time for the admin password to expire ;): Unfortunately, this doesn't give you the opportunity to login and then change the password (a feature I would really appreciate), but a reset is necessary. In the online documentation (https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-NSX-T-Data-Center/2.4/administration/GUID-8816B842-2EC4-40A8-A618-F68DB29FABD2.html) the reset is …
NSX-T: Missing locale data for the locale “XX”.
So, as you may know, I am from the Netherlands (or Holland, although technically I am not, but that is a different discussion ;)). So within my lab-environment I sometimes use Dutch as the language-setting, for instance within Firefox, the browser I use(d) to configure NSX-T. But this issue also occurs in Chrome. Within IE …
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Load Balancing with NSX-T – Part 1
So after I looked at the installation, the fabric and routing and switching, it is time to take a look at the higher level networking functions within NSX-T, like Load Balancing. The functionality itself has not changed very much since NSX-T (compared to V), but the way that it is consumed is different. As described in an earlier blog (Routing with NSX-T (part 1)), NSX-T uses multiple entities within it's fabric. Two of which being tier-0 and tier-1 gateways and load balancing can only exist on a tier-1 gateway. So when you use Load Balancing within NSX-T you have to deploy both tier-0 and tier-1 components.
