NSX Application Platform (NAPP) and the automation appliance (NAPP-AA) is scheduled to be end of life by May 2026. If you recollect, we did a couple of blog series around NAPP and NAPP-AA previously, please check out if you are still interested: NAPP series: https://vxplanet.com/2023/05/03/nsx-4-1-application-platform-napp-part-1/ NAPP-AA series: https://vxplanet.com/2024/04/16/nsx-application-platform-automation-appliance-napp-aa-part-1-topology-and-appliance-deployment/ Now the question is, what is the…… Continue reading vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation – Part 1 – Introduction
vSphere Supervisor Networking with NSX and AVI – Part 10 – Zonal Supervisor with AVI Availability Zones
Welcome back!!! If you are reading this, Congratulations, you have reached the final and Part 10 of the month-long blog series on vSphere supervisor with NSX and AVI. This will be another interesting topic as we are going to deal with vSphere supervisor deployed across vSphere zones and also introduce a new feature in AVI…… Continue reading vSphere Supervisor Networking with NSX and AVI – Part 10 – Zonal Supervisor with AVI Availability Zones
vSphere Supervisor Networking with NSX and AVI – Part 9 – Multiple Supervisors on Dedicated NSX Transport Zones
Let’s continue our discussion around the topology for multiple vSphere supervisors with NSX and AVI. This is Part 9 and, in this article, we will discuss the second design option where each vSphere supervisor is prepared on a dedicated NSX overlay transport zone. If you missed the previous article where we discussed about multiple vSphere…… Continue reading vSphere Supervisor Networking with NSX and AVI – Part 9 – Multiple Supervisors on Dedicated NSX Transport Zones
vSphere Supervisor Networking with NSX and AVI – Part 8 – Multiple Supervisors on Shared NSX Transport Zone
Welcome back!!! I finally managed to scale out my home lab with an additional vSphere cluster to support the topologies for multiple vSphere supervisors with NSX and AVI. The following two chapters (Part 8 and Part 9) are going to be interesting as we discuss about vSphere supervisor topologies at scale covering two design options:…… Continue reading vSphere Supervisor Networking with NSX and AVI – Part 8 – Multiple Supervisors on Shared NSX Transport Zone
vSphere Supervisor Networking with NSX and AVI – Part 7 – vSphere Namespace with Dedicated T0 VRF Gateway
Welcome to Part 7 of the blog series on vSphere supervisor networking with NSX and AVI. This is the final vSphere namespace topology that we are going to discuss, where we have a dedicated T0 VRF gateway for the namespace. This topology is almost similar to our previous article with dedicated T0 gateways, but with…… Continue reading vSphere Supervisor Networking with NSX and AVI – Part 7 – vSphere Namespace with Dedicated T0 VRF Gateway
vSphere Supervisor Networking with NSX and AVI – Part 6 – vSphere Namespace with Dedicated T0 Gateway
Welcome back!!! We are at Part 6 of the blog series on vSphere supervisor networking with NSX and AVI, where we discuss the topology and routing considerations for vSphere namespaces with a dedicated T0 gateway. If you missed the previous articles on namespace topologies with supervisor network inheritance and with custom Ingress / Egress networks,…… Continue reading vSphere Supervisor Networking with NSX and AVI – Part 6 – vSphere Namespace with Dedicated T0 Gateway
vSphere Supervisor Networking with NSX and AVI – Part 5 – vSphere Namespace with Custom Ingress and Egress Network
Welcome to Part 5 of the blog series on vSphere Supervisor with NSX and AVI. This is going to be a short article around the second vSphere namespace topology where we will override the supervisor network settings with a custom Ingress and Egress network, and will walk through the changes on NSX and AVI objects…… Continue reading vSphere Supervisor Networking with NSX and AVI – Part 5 – vSphere Namespace with Custom Ingress and Egress Network
vSphere Supervisor Networking with NSX and AVI – Part 4 – vSphere Namespace with Network Inheritance
Welcome back!!! Now that we activated vSphere supervisor in the previous article, let’s do few chapters (Part 4, 5, 6 & 7) on the different topologies of vSphere namespaces starting with vSphere namespaces inheriting network settings from the vSphere supervisor. If you missed the previous article on AVI onboarding and vSphere supervisor activation, please check…… Continue reading vSphere Supervisor Networking with NSX and AVI – Part 4 – vSphere Namespace with Network Inheritance
vSphere Supervisor Networking with NSX and AVI – Part 3 – AVI Onboarding and Supervisor Activation
Welcome back!!! We are at Part 3 of the blog series on vSphere Supervisor networking with NSX and AVI. In the previous two articles, we discussed the architecture of vSphere supervisor and the different topologies of vSphere namespaces, multiple supervisor clusters, zonal supervisors and the current environment build details to activate the vSphere supervisor (starting…… Continue reading vSphere Supervisor Networking with NSX and AVI – Part 3 – AVI Onboarding and Supervisor Activation
vSphere Supervisor Networking with NSX and AVI – Part 2 – Environment Build and Walkthrough
Welcome to Part 2 of the blog series on vSphere Supervisor networking with NSX and AVI. In the previous article, we discussed the networking and load balancing architecture covering the different topologies for supervisor clusters, vSphere namespaces with custom network topologies, multiple supervisor clusters and zonal supervisors. In this article, we will do a walkthrough…… Continue reading vSphere Supervisor Networking with NSX and AVI – Part 2 – Environment Build and Walkthrough