As part of study for VCIX-NV I’ve given myself task of exploring in my new home lab all parts of NSX which I’m still not fully comfortable. One of these things is OSPF, to investigate this I came up with a test scenario and then worked through the steps to achieve a solution to meet the scenario design. Scenario …

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As part of study for VCIX-NV I’ve given myself task of exploring in my new home lab all parts of NSX which I don’t use at work. One of these things is NSX Backup and Restore, its not that we don’t use these function but that its relatively high impacting if it goes wrong. To investigate this I came up …

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As part of study for VCIX-NV I’ve given myself task of exploring in my homelab all parts of NSX which I don’t use at work. One of these things is NSX Load Balancer as a Service (LBaaS), to investigate this I came up with a test scenario and then worked through the steps to achieve a solution to meet the …

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As part of study for VCIX-NV I’ve given myself task of exploring all parts of NSX which I don’t use at work. One of these things is NSX Activity Monitoring, to investigate this I came up with a test scenario and then worked through the steps to achieve a solution to meet the scenario design. Scenario Design …

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An NSX distributed firewall (dFW) runs as an ESXi host as a kernel module added as a VMware Installation Bundle (VIB). The dFW rules operate on Layer 2 through Layer 4; although this can be extended through Layer 7 by integrating with a 3-Party vendor. L2 rules are based on MAC address L2 protocols like ARP, RARP and …

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