Today I received the much awaited shipment of my award for the Best English blog from the vExpert program. The award announcement happened during the vExpert celebration party at VMworld 2021 based on voting from the #vCommunity. Thank you so much VMware, Corey Romero and the vExpert crew for the recognition. Thank you to Nicole…… Continue reading vExpert Best English Blog 2021

In my previous Part 2 of the blog series on NSX ALB Cloud migrator, we discussed the migration scenario for virtual applications from NSX ALB vCenter Cloud account to No-Orchestrator Cloud. Now let’s do the reverse migration. ie, from a No-Orchestrator Cloud to vCenter Cloud. I am reusing the same cloud accounts and virtual applications…… Continue reading NSX ALB Cloud Migrator – Part 3 – Virtual Service Migration from No-Orchestrator Cloud to vCenter Cloud

Let’s continue our virtual service migration scenarios with the NSX ALB Cloud migrator, this is Part 2 and let’s migrate our applications from an NSX ALB vCenter Cloud account to a No-Orchestrator cloud account. The migration tool, release notes and usage instructions are available in my Github repo at: https://github.com/harikrishnant/NsxAlbCloudMigrator Use cases for migration to…… Continue reading NSX ALB Cloud Migrator – Part 2 – Virtual Service Migration from vCenter Cloud to No-Orchestrator Cloud

In the previous blog post about my community project – NSX ALB Cloud Migrator, we looked at the project overview, migration workflow, current capabilities, limitations and usage instructions. We will now start doing some migration scenarios for virtual services across NSX ALB Clouds and VRF Contexts. If you missed the Introductory article, you can read…… Continue reading NSX ALB Cloud Migrator – Part 1 – Virtual Service Migration Across vCenter Cloud Accounts

Over the last few months, I have been busy learning Programming with Python and at the same time I was actively working on an NSX Advanced Load Balancer migration tool based on python that will migrate Virtual Services and it’s dependencies (Pools, Pool Groups, HTTP Content Switching Policy Sets and VSVIPs) from one NSX ALB…… Continue reading NSX ALB Cloud Migrator v1.0 – My First Python Project

I am extremely delighted to share that my blog VxPlanet.com has been selected to be in the Top 50 Blogs in the Cisco IT Blog Awards 2021. This is the third time I have submitted my blog for the IT Blog Awards and was a finalist in both 2019 and 2020 under the category “Most…… Continue reading Top 50 in Cisco IT Blog Awards 2021

Welcome back!!! We are at Part 2 of the blog series on TLS SNI Virtual Service hosting in NSX Advanced Load balancer. In Part 1, we discussed about the current SNI application hosting without ALB and the ALB pre-requisite configurations – vSphere cloud account, IPAM profiles, DNS virtual service, DNS profile, DNS delegation and application…… Continue reading TLS SNI Virtual Service Hosting in NSX Advanced Loadbalancer (AVI Vantage) – Part 2

Server Name Indication (SNI) is an extension of TLS protocol and is included in the SSL/TLS handshake process to make sure that the client request’s host header matches the website’s hostname and certificate to which the client is connecting to. Using SNI matching, client will be able to specify the website’s domain name during the…… Continue reading TLS SNI Virtual Service Hosting in NSX Advanced Loadbalancer (AVI Vantage) – Part 1

NSX Advanced Load balancer (ALB – formerly AVI Vantage Platform) is now natively integrated with VMware Cloud Director. VCD 10.2 was the first version to support the integration and that was with ALB 20.1.1. In the current VCD version 10.3 (which is, at the time of writing this article), NSX ALB versions 20.1.3 and 20.1.4…… Continue reading NSX Advanced Load Balancer (AVI) Integration with VMware Cloud Director 10.3

Welcome to the final and Part 11 of the blog series on NSX-T Federation. In this article, we will take a look at site failure scenarios, Global manager Active/Standby switchover, site switchover and stretched network recovery with three different Tier 0 Gateway topologies. I have given links to the previous ten parts of this Federation…… Continue reading NSX-T Federation – Part 11 – Site Failures and Network Recovery