August 2016 -

Journey to VCIX-NV – Part 4 – DLR Control VM SSH Access

August 25, 2016 Shady ElMalatawey 0

So, in this this stage I wanted to test the Distributed Logical Router (DLR) setup. The DLR is one of two types of routers available in NSX Platform and is mainly used in East-West traffic routing to avoid the traffic hair-pinning which can occur in normal centralized routing. For more info, check Roie ben Haim‘s marvelous article about the DLR here. The DLR consists mainly of two components: The Control VM (CVM) which is an Edge Services Gateway (ESG) built specifically to handle routing. Like any normal physical router, this is the SUP module that does all routing stuff (calculating routes and neighboring) and owns the routing tables. tThe CVM isn’t a part of the Data path. The Kernel modules in the ESXi Hosts: This module does […]

Journey to VCIX-NV – Part 3 – Transport Zones, Clusters and Distributed Switches: Relation and Design Aspects

August 22, 2016 Shady ElMalatawey 0

At this point, I started deploying the basic block of any NSX implementation: Logical Switches. Logical Switches are deployed as a virtual distributed port group on your vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS). Logical Switches are deployed within a logical entity called Transport Zone. This Transport Zone can span one or more clusters and single host can’t be added to the Transport Zone. Couple of thoughts jumped to my mind: what is the limit of a Transport Zone? and How does it represent a logical boundary for your NSX implementation? What is the relation between it and both of added clusters and the vDS(es) in the environment? How do all of that affect my design any NSX implementations? To answer my thoughts together, let’s […]

Questions from Gregg Robertson VCDX #205

August 18, 2016 vReid 0

Following my VCDX certification I was asked by Gregg AKA TheSaffaGeek to answer some questions for his blog. How did you get into using VMware? I started back in 2009 when my previous employer started a large datacentre consolidation project. I quickly did my VCP to ensure I was the main resource on the project. What made you decide to do the VCDX? I really wanted to further my knowledge after doing the VCAPs. What I liked about the VCDX program is it makes you stronger in so many different technology areas. How long did it take you to complete the whole VCDX journey? About 13 months once I had passed the VCAP’s. What advice would […]

VCAP6-DCV Design – Download Blueprint

August 17, 2016 Kim Bottu 4

The official VCAP-6-DCV Design Blueprint is available but unfortunately there is no download link for a PDF version yet. So I have created an excel sheet containing the same content as the online blueprint which you can download from this website. <<CLICK HERE>> to download the Excel version of the VCAP6-DCV Design blueprint.

vMusketeers has its 2nd VCDX!

August 9, 2016 Kim Bottu 9

vMusketeers is very proud of to announce we have a second VDCX in our little band of brothers: Kiran Reid made VCDX 225! Congrats Kiran, from all of us!