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NSX introduced multitenancy through the concept of projects in version 4.0.1 (API only). Multitenancy was enhanced with project UI options in NSX 4.1 and with Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) in NSX 4.1.1. NSX projects are a way to isolate networking and security objects across tenants within the same NSX deployment. Prior to projects, we dealt…… Continue reading NSX Multitenancy – Part 1 – Introduction & Multitenancy Models

In my previous blog post, we discussed the new version release of my community python project – NSX ALB Virtual Service Migrator v1.3 where we introduced a new capability to migrate TLS-SNI and Enhanced Virtual Hosting (EVH) across cloud accounts in NSX ALB. If you missed it, please check it out below: https://vxplanet.com/2023/07/20/my-python-project-nsx-alb-virtual-service-migrator-release-update-v1-3/ If you…… Continue reading Migrating TLS-SNI and EVH hosting across cloud accounts in NSX ALB

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 relationships to any supported target NSX ALB cloud accounts. A new…… Continue reading My Python Project – NSX ALB Virtual Service Migrator – Release update v1.3

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 enhancements in version 1.2. If you were not…… Continue reading My Python Project – NSX ALB Virtual Service Migrator – Release update v1.2 – Part 2

It’s been few months since I made updates to my first Python project called NSX Advanced Load Balancer Virtual Service Migrator (formerly NSX ALB Cloud Migrator). Because I learned new topics  around object oriented programming (classes and objects) and few others, I made my third release to the migration tool, which is version 1.2. I…… Continue reading My Python Project – NSX ALB Virtual Service Migrator – Release update v1.2 – Part 1

Welcome to the final and Part 4 of the blog series on NSX Application Platform where we demonstrate NAPP Scale-Out. NAPP scale-out is supported only on Advanced form factor (which we performed in the previous article) and also requires the TKC / Kubernetes cluster to be scaled out with the appropriate number of worker nodes.…… Continue reading NSX 4.1 Application Platform (NAPP) – Part 4 NAPP Scale-Out

Welcome to Part 3 of the blog series on NSX Application Platform. In the previous article we deployed NSX Application platform in standard form factor which supports the below NSX features: NSX Metrics NSX Malware Prevention NSX Network Detection and Response In this part, we will upgrade the form factor to “Advanced” in order to…… Continue reading NSX 4.1 Application Platform (NAPP) – Part 3 Form Factor Upgrade

Welcome back!!! We are at Part 2 of the blog series on NSX 4.1 Application Platform (NAPP). In Part 1 we discussed the pre-requisites for NAPP and walked through the current environment which is set up with vSphere with Tanzu on VDS networking with NSX Advanced load balancer. Here is the link to Part 1,…… Continue reading NSX 4.1 Application Platform (NAPP) – Part 2 Deployment

NSX Application Platform (NAPP) was first introduced in NSX-T 3.2 which is a containerized platform to host the below NSX features: NSX Intelligence NSX Malware Prevention NSX Network Detection and Response (NDR) NSX Metrics To enable NSX Application Platform (NAPP), we require a Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster or any CNCF conformant upstream Kubernetes cluster with the…… Continue reading NSX 4.1 Application Platform (NAPP) – Part 1 Environment Setup

I had the privilege to present a topic at the prestigious event – VMware Explore India 2023 with my colleague and friend Vinay Agarwal (@vmvtips) held at Jio World Center, Mumbai. This was a breakout session and our topic was “Achieve Security and Availability in Containers with Antrea, AKO, AMKO & NSX” (CSCA1104-26IN) held on…… Continue reading My Session and Experience at VMware Explore India 2023