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NSX-v 6.4.x: Configure NSX Manager with more than Two DNS Servers

  • Posted on June 16, 2019June 16, 2019
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

I was preparing for a NSX-v engagement recently where the customer was so curious about the redundancy of all integrated components with the NSX environment. They insisted to add all their 3 local DNS servers to the NSX manager. Normally,…

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NSX for vSphere: Add Floating Static Routes to NSX Edge via REST API

  • Posted on May 21, 2019May 21, 2019
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

Recently I have been engaged in a NSX-v PSO engagement where we need to make sure all the best practices are applied to the environment. Trust me, with every engagement, you learn something new as it is always the business…

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Step-by-Step: Workload Migration to NSX-v Domain Preserving IP address Schema

  • Posted on January 3, 2019January 3, 2019
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

With the IT transformation towards software defined data center (SDDC), and the wide adoption of software defined networking (SDN), most of current vSphere customers are considered as potential NSX ones, which means more and more brown-field NSX engagements to deal…

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VMware ECMP NSX Edges Dropping Packets? Check RPF & Firewall

  • Posted on July 8, 2018July 8, 2018
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

Recently, I was checking  an interesting issue for one of our customers.  They are experiencing random packet dropping where users accessing their applications running on NSX environment are suffering from intermittent disconnections. They are running NSX-V 6.4 where their applications…

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VMware NSX Edge Not resolving Syslog FQDN ? Configure DNS Client via REST API

  • Posted on June 20, 2018June 20, 2018
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

Introduction Well, recently I was checking an issue for one of our customers, where NSX edges were not sending logs to their configured syslog server. I found the issue as interesting and decided to write a blog about it to…

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Step-By-Step: Install and Configure NSX Manager 6.4.1

  • Posted on June 12, 2018June 12, 2018
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

Introduction As NSX is driving the evolution of the next generation networking era, learning NSX is a must in my humble opinion. VMware does not consider NSX as a product anymore, rather it is a platform with a rich set…

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Did you add your vCenter to the NSX DFW exclusion list? Validate via Central CLI

  • Posted on June 10, 2018June 10, 2018
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

Introduction Whenever you prepare a vSphere cluster in NSX, the distributed firewall is enabled automatically on all ESXi hosts in that cluster. One of these clusters can be your management cluster where several management VMs are running including the vCenter…

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Migration from Collapsed to Dedicated NSX Edge Cluster

  • Posted on June 9, 2018June 10, 2018
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

In a recent PSO VMware NSX engagement with one of our customers, and as their new hardware arrived, they decided to make a migration of ESG edges and DLR control VMs to a dedicated cluster. I want to share with…

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NSX-V Distributed Logical Router: With or Without Control VM?

  • Posted on May 17, 2018May 17, 2018
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

Greetings, In this relatively short post, I will start with a brief introduction about NSX distributed logical router (DLR) and then I will delve into the main topic which I want to demonstrate here. Overview The main purpose of the…

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Step-by-Step NSX-V Upgrade from 6.3.4 to 6.3.5

  • Posted on January 7, 2018January 7, 2018
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

Recently, I was engaged in a NSX deployment where we installed NSX for vSphere v6.3.4. However, couple of days later, VMware highlighted that there is a critical bug with this release in the photon based NSX controllers in which a…

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