NSX-v 6.2 was released last week (Release Notes) and one of the features mentioned in the release notes is the Communication Channel Health feature. Show health of the communication channels: NSX 6.2.0 adds the ability to monitor communication channel health. The channel health status between NSX Manager and the firewall […]
When working with a customer recently to install NSX-v into a lab environment, we were faced with hosts which would fail when we went through the Host Preparation steps to install the NSX VIBs. As it turns out, it wasn’t the usual problems of incorrect DNS or a firewall causing issues but […]
Operating and troubleshooting a NSX-v environment can sometimes be a daunting task, especially if the customer had the environment setup by an external party (ie. VMware PSO or a VMware Partner). And so over the past few weeks, VMware have released 2 pieces of collateral which I am finding answer a […]
Recently when doing some performance testing with a customer, we wanted to have the ability to bulk create a number of DFW rules. By leveraging some python scripting and the NSX-v API, I came up with a flexible and re-useable script which can be used to create a new section […]
