We are now at Part 2 of Using NSX-T Loadbalancer for the NSX-T Management cluster. If you have missed Part 1, here is the link: https://vxplanet.com/2020/03/26/using-nsx-t-loadbalancer-for-the-nsx-t-management-cluster-part-1/ Let’s continue Creating Tier 1 Gateway for the NSX-T Management Cluster The Tier 1 Gateway (LR-T1-NSX-T-MGR-LB) need to be instantiated in the Edge Cluster as it need to support…… Continue reading Using NSX-T Loadbalancer for the NSX-T Management Cluster – Part 2

Starting with NSX-T v2.4, we have a converged NSX-T manager appliance which handles the Manager, Controller and Policy API roles. We usually deploy a recommended minimum of 3 NSX-T manager instances to make up the NSX-T Management Cluster. The cluster is accessed (or consumed by CMP) via a VIP or an external Loadbalancer depending upon…… Continue reading Using NSX-T Loadbalancer for the NSX-T Management Cluster – Part 1

This is Part 2 of the blog series on Deploying Confluent Kafka Platform on VMware Enterprise PKS with NSX-T Networking. In Part 1, we have deployed the Confluent Operator, Zookeeper Ensemble and Kafka Broker Cluster. If you have missed it, you can read it here: https://vxplanet.com/2020/03/16/confluent-kafka-platform-on-vmware-enterprise-pks-with-nsx-t-networking-part-1/ In this article, we will deploy rest of the…… Continue reading Confluent Kafka Platform on VMware Enterprise PKS with NSX-T Networking – Part 2

Let’s continue the blog series on VMware Enterprise PKS and NSX-T, this time we’re going to deploy a multi-tier application to the PKS K8S Cluster. We will deploy an Enterprise grade version of Kafka from Confluent along with the Confluent platform components. Apache Kafka is built around an open-source project. It is used in real-time…… Continue reading Confluent Kafka Platform on VMware Enterprise PKS with NSX-T Networking – Part 1

VMware Enterprise PKS introduced the NSX-T shared Tier 1 architecture in NSX-T version 2.5. In this architecture, a Tier 1 Gateway is instantiated for each Kubernetes cluster (rather than for the namespaces) and all the stateful services are pushed down at the Tier 1 Gateway scope. This enables support for Tier 0 Gateway deployment in…… Continue reading NSX-T Shared Tier 1 Architecture in VMware Enterprise PKS

Happy New Year everyone. This is the fourth and final part of my multi-part blog series on ‘Building an NSX-T Bring Your Own Topology (BYOT) for VMware Enterprise PKS’. In case you missed the previous parts, here are the links: Part 1 -> https://vxplanet.com/2019/12/25/building-an-nsx-t-bring-your-own-topology-byot-for-vmware-enterprise-pks-part-1/ Part 2 -> https://vxplanet.com/2019/12/26/building-an-nsx-t-bring-your-own-topology-byot-for-vmware-enterprise-pks-part-2/ Part 3 -> https://vxplanet.com/2019/12/29/building-an-nsx-t-bring-your-own-topology-byot-for-vmware-enterprise-pks-part-3/ Here are the contents of…… Continue reading Building an NSX-T Bring Your Own Topology (BYOT) for VMware Enterprise PKS – Part 4

This is Part 3 of the 4-part blog series on ‘Building an NSX-T Bring Your Own Topology (BYOT) for VMware Enterprise PKS’. In case you missed Part 1 and 2, here are the links: Part 1 -> https://vxplanet.com/2019/12/25/building-an-nsx-t-bring-your-own-topology-byot-for-vmware-enterprise-pks-part-1/ Part 2 -> https://vxplanet.com/2019/12/26/building-an-nsx-t-bring-your-own-topology-byot-for-vmware-enterprise-pks-part-2/ Here are the contents of this article: Tier 0 Gateway BGP Configuration with…… Continue reading Building an NSX-T Bring Your Own Topology (BYOT) for VMware Enterprise PKS – Part 3