Adrian Heißler

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NSX-T setup with Edge single NIC uplink profile and static routing

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On July 29, 2023

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In last year’s VMware homelab NSX series, I’ve showed howto setup a NSX setup with BGP and later with OSPF. This time, I’m going to deploy and configure NSX-T with a static routing setup using single Edge uplinks. NSX-T is used 3.2.2 in the lab environment.

In this lab, we have two ToR switches, configured with VRRP. The ESXi server is physically connected with one uplink “Uplink1” to ToR-1 and with another uplink “Uplink2” to ToR-2.

The Edge Node VM design in the environment is driven by the following goals:

  • 1 virtual uplink used (redundancy is provided by ESXi pNICs)
  • A single N-VDS per Edge node carrying both overlay and external traffic

The Tier-0 gateway is configured with a HA VIP and sets it default route to the ToR virtual router group IP address. The ToR routes all traffic destined for our Overlay segment to the Tier-0 HA VIP.

The overall topology can be seen in the following diagram.

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Disable NSX-T password expiration

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On October 15, 2022

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In my home lab, I want to deactivate the password expiration of the NSX-T local management user accounts on both, NSX-T Manager and Edges. There are three local users: root, admin, and audit. The default password expiration is set to 90 days.

This short post documents how to disable the passwords of the three local users.

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Configure OSPF in NSX-T

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On August 2, 2022

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In my past blog article on setting up NSX-T, I’ve covered using BGP as the dynamic routing protocol for north-south traffic.
A customer wanted to use OSPF to interconnect their physical networking fabric with NSX-T. Time to play with this setup in the lab 🙂

The logical routing topology which is used in my setup is depicted below:

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VMware homelab VCD setup

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On March 6, 2022

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With VMware VMware Cloud Director you can build secure, multi-tenant clouds by pooling virtual infrastructure resources into virtual data centers and exposing them to users through Web-based portals and programmatic interfaces as a fully automated, catalog-based service.

In the lab environment, we’ll setup a simple single cell installation, and add our workload vCenter Server vc2.lab.local and the NSX-T Manager nsx1.lab.local as infrastructure resources.

From these infrastructures we’ll create cloud resources such as a provider VDC, a Geneve network pool, and an External network.

Then we’ll create a tenant organization and assign resources from the provider VDC as an organization VDC to this particular organization. We’ll also create an Edge Gateway to allow the tenant to access the outside world from within his Cloud.

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VMware home lab vSphere with Tanzu setup

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On February 5, 2022

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In this lab session, I want to transform my workload cluster into a “native Kubernetes platform” by using vSphere with Tanzu.

VMware Tanzu is a portfolio of products and solutions which allow its customers to build, run, and manage Kubernetes controlled container-based applications.

In the Operations (or Run) catalog depicted above, VMware has different implementations for Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, all of which provision and manage the lifecycle of Tanzu Kubernetes clusters on multiple platforms. It consists of the following options:

  • vSphere with Tanzu: Also known as Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service (TKGS). Runs Kubernetes workloads natively in vSphere and enables self-provisioning of Tanzu Kubernetes clusters running on vSphere with Tanzu.
  • Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG): TKG is a standalone offering whose origins come from VMware’s acquisition of Heptio and is installed as a management cluster, which is a Kubernetes cluster itself, that deploys and operates the Tanzu Kubernetes clusters. These Tanzu Kubernetes clusters are the workload Kubernetes clusters on which the actual workload is deployed.
  • Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated (TKGI): TKGi’s origins come from VMware’s acquisition of and joint development efforts with Pivotal. TKGI (formerly known as VMware Enterprise PKS) is a Kubernetes-based container solution with advanced networking, a private container registry, and life cycle management. TKGI provisions and manages Kubernetes clusters with the TKGI control plane, which consists of BOSH and Ops Manager.

In this session, we’ll cover vSphere with Tanzu.

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