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How to create a NSX-v API Only User Account

One of the main reasons for customers wanting to implement NSX for vSphere is the fact there is a RESTful API which can be leveraged to drive the whole system. In a standard NSX-v installation, by...

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NSX Manager: VTY configuration is locked by other VTY

Have you ever had the problem of working on a unstable network connection and your network drops out. Well this happened to me this morning, but whilst it happened, I was actually connected to my NSX...

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NSX-v: The Penny Drops

I was onsite implementing NSX-v for a customer, and part of the installation in this environment requires that we allocate the VTEP pnics to the VXLAN transport VLAN. To do this I had to liaise with...

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NSX-v Web Central CLI

While NSX 6.2.x has been out for a while now, most people should be aware of the newly introduced feature called the Central CLI. I won’t go into the details of what the Central CLI is, as you can read...

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vSphere Web Client, NSX and a dreaded black screen

Every now and then I get asked by a colleague or client if there is a known issue with the vSphere Web Client and the NSX Plugin that causes the screen to go black. My response is to ask them the...

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NSX-v – How to find Object IDs for almost everything!

When starting out with the NSX-v API, you will quickly learn that there are times where you are required to reference an object, like when you want to add a member to a security group, you are required...

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Central CLI API Update for NSX 6.2.3/6.2.4

When working on a customer site recently I was made aware that their system to use the NSX Central CLI via the API had stopped functioning. The system had stopped working when the upgrade to NSX 6.2.3...

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Central CLI Update #1 for NSX 6.2.3/6.2.4

Following on from my previous post in regards to getting the Central CLI API working after an upgrade to 6.2.3/6.2.4, it seems that a nice little enhancement has been made which should help verifying...

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NSXv – DFW Log Format Change

In NSXv 6.2.2 and earlier, the format of the DFW logs has remained relatively the same for quite some time now. The following is a specific sample of the dfwpktlogs.log file from an NSXv 6.2.2 host....

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Log Insight & NSX-v DFW

I was recently asked by a customer who is running NSX vSphere (NSX-v) and Log Insight, is there a way they can export data from Log Insight that will give them the unique...

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NSX-v: Where is my object used that I am trying to delete?

Over the past few years of working with NSX vSphere, one of the more frustrating things that would happen is that you would try to delete an object of some description (IP Set, Security Group, Service...

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Running nested NSX-T on NSX-T

Recently I have been seeing various posts about running NSX-T on NSX-T, and I thought it was about time that I finished off this post i’ve been sitting on for quite some time. As part of my teams...

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How to sync a dynamic NSX-T group to an external system.

One of the things that makes NSX-T such a flexible platform when it comes to creating security policy is the ability to group membership defined by dynamic criteria, or based on objects such as a...

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NSX-T Error when trying to configure a VDS port group for a VMK Uninstall...

This is one of those pesky errors that I keep stumbling across, and every time It pops up, I forget how to fix it, so I am going to document it once and for all so that I can at easily find the fix...

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Working with NSX-T 3.0 and VDS 7.0 – Duplicate Port Group Names

When working with a colleague recently on an NSX-T 3.0 environment that utilises VDS 7.0 rather than N-VDS, we came across something which initially stumped me. If you were to try and create 2...

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How to count DFW rules per ESXi host.

If you’ve heard me speak at VMworld on NSX Distributed Firewall best practises, you would have heard me speak about the importance of using the Applied To option when configuring DFW rules. One of the...

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Notify Switches on N-VDS

Recevied an interesting question today about whether a N-VDS supports the “Notify Switches” feature that is available in regular VDS. And as I didn’t know the answer to this off the top of my head, it...

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Counting Exploded NSX-v DFW Rules

When working with a customer recently, there was a question raised about how to calculate the actual number of NSX-v distributed firewall rules configured for a given VM on the dataplane of an ESXi...

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What’s New in NSX-v 6.4.7 – L3port-optimization

Late last week, the latest version of NSX vSphere, 6.4.7 was released for General Availability (GA). Although it was mainly a maintenance release, there were a couple of items listed in the What’s New...

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NSXv – DFW Log Format Change

In NSXv 6.2.2 and earlier, the format of the DFW logs has remained relatively the same for quite some time now. The following is a specific sample of the dfwpktlogs.log file from an NSXv 6.2.2 host....

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