VMworld 2018: Thoughts about NSX future…
NSX is now a proven technology that really increases the network reliability by introducing an overlay and reducing the overhead for secure VM to VM communication (East-West traffic). VMware started…
My deployment experience on NSX
Software Defined Network is a powerful technology able to define and deliver network elements using software and being consumed as a resource respecting the “cloud paradigm”. The trend of delivery…
IBM PartyCloud at Milan: Codelab, meetups and learning moments
Last week I had the pleasure of participate to IBM PartyCloud, an interesting initiative coming from IBM, oriented to “learn by lab” how can use IBM Cloud platform starting from…
My first vExpert NSX!
This morning I woke up with a great news (and a lot of Twitter notifications): The vExpert NSX 2018 list is official! This is my first time I was nominated…
VMware Virtual Cloud Network: the SDN from datacenter to cloud
The recent announcement coming from VMware, is the new line of products that definitely covers all segments of software defined networking: Virtual Cloud Network. I already showed here the benefits…
Thoughts about VCP6-NV exam
After my last VCP6-NV certification achievement, it’s used to spend some words about the exam experience. The contents of VMware Network Virtualization path, differently from the others, are the conjunction…
VCP6-NV Study Notes – Section 10: Troubleshoot a VMware Network Virtualization Implementation – Part 1
Objective 10.1: Compare and Contrast Tools Available for Troubleshooting Capture and trace uplink, vmknic, and physical NIC packets The pktcap-uw tool is an enhanced packet capture and analysis tool that…
VCP6-NV Study Notes-Section 8: Deploy a Cross-vCenter NSX Environment
Objective 8.1: Differentiate single and Cross-vCenter NSX deployments Understand the benefits/use cases for Cross-vCenter NSX Use Case: To overcome scale limits of vCenter Server To accommodate products that require dedicated…
VCP6-NV Study Notes-Section 6: Configure and Manage NSX Network Services – Part 2
Configure and Manage DHCP/DNS/NAT Understand proper use and addition of a DHCP IP Pool NSX Edge supports IP address pooling and one-to-one static IP address allocation. Static IP address binding…
VCP6-NV Study Notes-Section 6: Configure and Manage NSX Network Services – Part 1
Objective 6.1: Configure and Manage Logical Load Balancing Describe and understand when to use the two topologies for load balancing NSX edge LB enables net traffic to pass through multiple…