Whilst troubleshooting at a client today, I needed to perform a packet capture on one of the Edge Services Gateways in the environment. Performing a packet capture is often very helpful in diagnosing a range of different issues. To kick off a packet capture you can jump on the console […]
NSX-v allows the creation of Security Groups to group objects to be used in DFW rules and security policies. Each security group can have a mix of static and dynamic membership (If you want to get picky, you can also statically exclude objects). One of the possible ways to dynamically […]
When faced with migrating from a Checkpoint installation to a VMware NSX-v installation, at some point someone is going to need to get all the objects across to the new firewall platform. I was recently asked to help add some functionality to a script to take some data from an odumper csv output and pump it into NSX-v.
When using the NSX-v distributed firewall (DFW) have you ever need to find out if a service has already been configured in the system for a particular port number? Recently I was given a sample ruleset from a client to re-create in the DFW, and one thing that stood out was that […]
Over my years as a network engineer there has always been some element of scripting required. Whether it was formally required by a project, a particular situation or whether it was because i was sick of doing the same thing over and over again and wanted to make my life […]
Whilst deploying a NSX 6.1 and vRA 6.1 lab for some testing, I came across a peculiar error in regards to deploying a 1-arm load balancer. Essentially it wouldn’t work! When vRA was trying to execute the multi-machine blueprint, it would provision all the VMs correctly and then destroy them […]
Today I finally passed my VCP-NV exam, and truth be told, it was only on my second attempt at the exam that I actually passed. When I booked my first attempt at the exam, I had a complete 4 week study plan worked out, however even the best laid plans […]
So if you’ve landed on this post, it because you’ve searched for something to do with VMware vCenter Operations Manager. Whilst I am in not a guru when it comes to this product… yet, and with a bit of reading its possible to find out most of what you need, […]
