“NFV for Dummies” blog series #1

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“NFV for Dummies” blog series #1

Posted on June 30, 2015 by Gary Hamilton I decided it would be a good idea to write a series of blog posts about NFV. Why? Over the last year, I have had to traverse a steep learning curve to understand what NFV is so that I would be in a position where I am comfortable having conversations with service providers and Telcos about it. As I have worked with others in our community, I have recognised the same look of confusion I had when I first started. Secondly, it is clear there is a lot of general confusion around this topic, and I think it is important to provide some clarity about the general concepts. This is a new area for us as a company, so it is OK for there to be some confusion at this point. But that will need to change over…Read More


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VMware NSX installation flow chart diagram

VMware NSX installation flow chart diagram

VMware NSX installation flow chart diagram

There are many great NSX installation blogs and videos, so in this post I will just post the flow chart diagram. I could not find a diagram, so I created this. From the above, you can see it’s pretty straight forward I’m showing some tasks as parallel as the order does not matter. Otherwise, […] The post VMware NSX installation flow chart diagram appeared first on virtual red dot.


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The (Un)official VMware VCIX-NV Study Guide

Grab your free (un)official #VMware VCIX-NV Study Guide!

The (Un)official VMware VCIX-NV Study Guide

VMware released a new certification for NSX back in October 2014; the VMware Certified Implementation Expert (VCIX-NV). This new certification is the next level for VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization (VCP-NV) and validates your skills and your ability to install, configure and administer VMware NSX for vSphere. You can learn more about VCIX-NV here. During the preparations before this exam, I started keeping notes. These notes turned into blog posts and these blog posts turned into complete coverage of the VCIX-NV blueprint. After 3 months, all the objectives were done, I passed the VCIX-NV exam myself and decided to compile everything into an easy to use format. It took a while, but after a lot of text formatting,…Read More


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Part 1: Installing VMware NSX Appliance and…

Part 1: Installing VMware NSX Appliance and configuration.

Part 1: Installing VMware NSX Appliance and…

Hello everyone, welcome first series of NSX 6.1 installation and configuration with Best Practice. This series containevery steps involved for NSX deployment with screenshots. Since this installation is done in Lab environment we will try to include the all topics. We all know NSX is key component for SDDC. Its a software based platform that […]


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How to install Micro Segmentation on your…

How to install Micro Segmentation on your #vSphere cluster

How to install Micro Segmentation on your…

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Making NSX for Horizon 6 More Approachable

Making NSX for Horizon 6 More Approachable #VCDX #vExpert

Making NSX for Horizon 6 More Approachable

By Tristan Todd, Architect, End-User Computing, VMware I love riding bikes! For years I have served as my own bike mechanic. And for about the last 10 years I have hand-built my own bicycle wheels. I do this because I like to choose my parts, I like the quality of the finished product, and I […]


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