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Welcome to another blog post on NSX Application Platform (NAPP). Over the last few weeks, I have been publishing multiple articles around NSX Application platform covering both manual and automated deployment using the NAPP Automation Appliance. While the articles were written based on pre-NSX 4.2 versions, I hope you might have noticed that one of…… Continue reading NSX Application Platform Deployment with an HTTP/HTTPS Web Proxy – Part 1

Welcome back!!! We are at Part 2 of the blog series on VCF Import Tool where we will onboard a brownfield vSphere deployment to VCF as a VI compute workload domain. In the previous article, we demonstrated the onboarding process to VCF management workload domain with NSX VLAN networking, and I hope you have already…… Continue reading Onboarding Brownfield vSphere Environments to VMware Cloud Foundation – Part 2 – VI Workload Domain

VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2 was released last day and one of the new features was the introduction of VCF Import Tool. VCF Import Tool is used for onboarding existing brownfield vSphere deployments to VCF without needing a full rebuild. In addition to onboarding vSphere environments, VCF Import tool can also prepare the imported vSphere clusters…… Continue reading Onboarding Brownfield vSphere Environments to VMware Cloud Foundation – Part 1 – Management Workload Domain

Welcome to Part 2 of the blog series on NSX GRE tunnels where we discuss about GRE tunnel failure detection. This is a continuation to the previous article where we implemented GRE tunnels and configured BGP over GRE, and I highly recommend checking out Part 1 before continuing. Part 1 – BGP over GRE:https://vxplanet.com/2024/07/19/nsx-gre-tunnels-part-1-bgp-over-gre/ GRE…… Continue reading NSX GRE Tunnels – Part 2 – Failure Detection

NSX introduced support for GRE tunnels on the T0 / VRF gateways in version 4.1.2. GRE tunnel is a logical point-to-point connection between two routing devices (or endpoints) where the traffic is encapsulated and transmitted over an IP network. With the support for GRE tunnels, we now have options for additional traffic paths into and…… Continue reading NSX GRE Tunnels – Part 1 – BGP over GRE

Welcome to the final and Part 6 of the blog series on NSX Application Platform Automation Appliance where we cover NAPP deployment in an air-gapped (internet-restricted) environment. One of the main requirements for NAPP deployment is to have direct internet access for the NSX manager cluster and the TKGS guest cluster of the NAPP instance.…… Continue reading NSX Application Platform Automation Appliance (NAPP-AA) – Part 6 – Air-gapped (Internet-restricted) Deployments

Welcome to Part 5 of the blog series on NSX Application Platform Automation Appliance (NAPP-AA) where we demonstrate NAPP lifecycle management. When I completed Part 4 of this blog series last month, a minor update to NAPP (version 4.1.2.1) was released in order to address an issue while activating Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with an…… Continue reading NSX Application Platform Automation Appliance (NAPP-AA) – Part 5 – NAPP Upgrade

Welcome to Part 4 of the blog series on NSX Application Platform Automation Appliance (NAPP-AA) where we demonstrate NAPP Scale-Out. NAPP scale-out is supported only on advanced form factor and also requires the TKGS guest cluster to be scaled out with the appropriate number of worker nodes. As stated earlier, NSX Automation Appliance only deploys NAPP in the…… Continue reading NSX Application Platform Automation Appliance (NAPP-AA) – Part 4 – NAPP Scale-Out

Welcome to Part 3 of the blog series on NSX Application Platform Automation Appliance (NAPP-AA). In this article, we will deploy a second NAPP instance for the additional compute workload domain using the NAPP automation appliance. If you were not following along, please check out the previous articles of the blog series below: Part 1…… Continue reading NSX Application Platform Automation Appliance (NAPP-AA) – Part 3 – Deploying Multiple NAPP Instances

Welcome back!!! We are at Part 2 of the blog series on NSX Application Platform Automation Appliance (NAPP-AA). In the previous article, we discussed about the NAPP topology deployed by the automation appliance and the deployment of automation appliance into the management vSphere cluster. If you missed it, please check it out below: Part 1…… Continue reading NSX Application Platform Automation Appliance (NAPP-AA) – Part 2 – NAPP Instance Deployment