Stateful Active/Active Gateways

Stateful Active/Active Gateways

Stateful Active/Active Gateways

Introduction By definition, a stateful service maintains a context, or a “state,” for the traffic it is dealing with. To maintain the state, the service must be able to view both directions of a flow. This requirement is typically not met when a gateway is implemented using multiple active service routers (SRs), as illustrated in the following diagram: Figure 1: stateful service and A/A


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Avi/NSX ALB – Virtual Service placement in A/A…

Avi/NSX ALB – Virtual Service placement in A/A and N+M Elastic HA modes

Avi/NSX ALB – Virtual Service placement in A/A…

One of the main challenges when we are designing and implementing Avi/NSX Advanced Load Balancer configurations will be the decision between which of the Elastic HA Mode to use and what are the differences between the two.


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Difference Between Overlay and Underlay

Difference Between Overlay and Underlay

Difference Between Overlay and Underlay

This video is part of a series of educational SASE & SD-WAN videos to help better understand the VMware SASE Solution. This video highlights the differences between SD-WAN overlay and underlay, tunnel establishment behaviors, and the routing interaction between the overlay and underlay.


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NSX Distributed Firewall – Micro Segmentation

NSX Distributed Firewall – Micro Segmentation

NSX Distributed Firewall – Micro Segmentation

Welcome Back !! In this blog, we will be discussing about NSX micro-segmentation and implement one of the rule for the same. Below are the High level points which we will be discussing in this blog: +Traditional Security Challenges. +How NSX Micro segmentation overcomes these challenges. […]


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NSX-T: Replace faulty NSX Edge Transport Node VM

NSX-T: Replace faulty NSX Edge Transport Node VM

NSX-T: Replace faulty NSX Edge Transport Node VM

I recently came across a situation where the NSX-T Edge vm in an existing cluster was having issues while loading its parameter. Routing was working fine and there was no outage as such. However, when a customer was trying to select an edge vm and edit it in NSX UI, it was showing an […]


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Configuring VMware NSX Backups Using SSH Keys -…

Configuring VMware NSX Backups Using SSH Keys – Explosive Cloud

Configuring VMware NSX Backups Using SSH Keys -…

Introduction | Important: Starting with version 4.0, VMware NSX-T Data Center is known as VMware NSX. That’s important to note because when you google anything with NSX these days, you either get NSX-T documentation or NSX-v documentation. This post is about VMware NSX […]


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NSX-T: Standalone Edge VM Transport Node…

NSX-T: Standalone Edge VM Transport Node deployment

NSX-T: Standalone Edge VM Transport Node…

There can be multiple reasons to deploy nsx-t edge vm via ova instead of deploying thought nsx-t manager. At the time of writing this blog, I had to deploy edge vm via ova to replace faulty edge vm in nsx-t env. You may be deploying one to create a Layer 2 Bridge between nsx-v […]


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A Casual NSX Conversation

A Casual NSX Conversation

A Casual NSX Conversation

Recently I had an interesting conversation with an IT techie who is just starting his journey with NSX, and I thought it will be nice to have the conversation in a form of a blog. Conversation may help people who are just starting with VMware NSX. CuriousTechie: Hey! Recently our company […]


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Quick NSX D-IDPS validation

Quick NSX D-IDPS validation

Quick NSX D-IDPS validation

A conversation about basic validation of NSX Distributed Intrusion Detection and Prevention System | CuriousTechie: Hey IT Guy, I am doing a Green filed deployment and have enabled NSX distributed IDPS in the environment. It may take few days to setup a testing environment with Security testing [..]


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OpenShift Integration with NSX-ALB

OpenShift Integration with NSX-ALB

OpenShift Integration with NSX-ALB

NSX-ALB could add a lot of values to OpenShift compared to the built-in OpenShift Router. The OpenShift Router is limited to OpenShift Routes and Ingress (HTTP/HTTPS Load Balancing) with very limited visibility. While NSX-ALB will add below main values, OpenShift Routes support Service Type […]


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My Python Project – NSX ALB Virtual Service…

My Python Project – NSX ALB Virtual Service Migrator – Release update v1.3

My Python Project – NSX ALB Virtual Service…

Continuing with my python learning, I just made few enhancements to my python project – NSX ALB Virtual Service migrator tool and published version 1.3. The enhancement is around the capability to migrate Virtual Services Hosting (TLS SNI and EVH) having Parent-Child virtual service […]


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NSX ALB – A conversation about GSLB Basics

NSX ALB – A conversation about GSLB Basics

NSX ALB – A conversation about GSLB Basics

CuriousTechie: Hey, I am learning to setup Global Server Load Balancing on AVI. I do not have much experience on GSLB especially with AVI or NSX ALB, can you help me understand the basic concept of GSLB with NSX ALB? ITGuy: Sure! Are you good with how GSLB works irrespective of the Load […]


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How to Replace NSXT Manager Self Sign…

How to Replace NSXT Manager Self Sign Certificate For LocalManager , MP-Cluster …

How to Replace NSXT Manager Self Sign…

Tomcat : for external communication from nsx manager nodes mpc luster: for external communication from nsx manager to nsx manager cluster. local manager : for nsx federation account by default these there certificate are valid till 825days . […]


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News from SD-WAN, SASE, and Edge at VMware…

News from SD-WAN, SASE, and Edge at VMware Explore 2023 Las Vegas

News from SD-WAN, SASE, and Edge at VMware…

Join us at VMware Explore Las Vegas, Nevada | The VenetianAugust 21 – 24, 2023 Highlights from the VMware SASE and Edge Blog Join us in Las Vegas, where VMware Explore is gearing up to bring you the latest updates on the multi-cloud universe, including VMware SASE™, VMware SD-WAN™, and VMware […]


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My Python Project – NSX ALB Virtual Service…

My Python Project – NSX ALB Virtual Service Migrator – Release update v1.2 – Par…

My Python Project – NSX ALB Virtual Service…

Welcome back! This is a continuation to the previous article on my Python project, NSX ALB Virtual Service Migrator v1.2, and in this article, we are going to perform virtual service migration from vCenter write access and No-Orchestrator cloud accounts to an NSX-T cloud account using the […]


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News from SD-WAN, SASE, and Edge at VMware…

News from SD-WAN, SASE, and Edge at VMware Explore 2023 Las Vegas

News from SD-WAN, SASE, and Edge at VMware…

Join us at VMware Explore Las Vegas, Nevada | The VenetianAugust 21 – 24, 2023 Join us in Las Vegas, where VMware Explore is gearing up to bring you the latest updates on the multi-cloud universe, including VMware SASE™, VMware SD-WAN™, and VMware Edge Compute Stack. In our ever-evolving technologic


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