Previously, I provided partial walkthroughs of my nested VMware Homelab environment running vSphere and NSX. For this new tutorial series, I will be doing a complete, step-by-step rebuild of my homelab.
Previously, I provided partial walkthroughs of my nested VMware Homelab environment running vSphere and NSX. For this new tutorial series, I will be doing a complete, step-by-step rebuild of my homelab.
What is VMware TestDrive VMware Hands-On Labs (HOL) have been around for quite some time and are well-known within the VMware ecosystem. What many people don’t know is that VMware also offers “fully configured, enterprise grade, and integrated” environments to test and explore VMware’s full suite of products in VMware TestDrive. Where VMware HOL are ...
I started a YouTube channel where I mainly cover VMware NSX-T-related topics. I try to focus on the more foundational topics instead of many of the awesome content already out there on all the cutting edge and more advanced topics. I’m blown away by the number of subscribers, views, and, most importantly, sincere “thank you’s” ...
VMware acquired Avi Networks in the summer of 2019 to add Software-Defined ADC (Application Distribution Controller) capabilities to their Virtual Cloud Network portfolio. That’s a fancy way of saying they bought the most awesome load balancing, WAF and container ingress traffic management solution in the market. VMware rebranded Avi Networks Load Balancer to VMware NSX ...
In my previous video and blogpost, I explained how I set up a fully nested vSphere 7 homelab with NSX-T. In this video tutorial, I’m adding a second VyOS appliance and a second NSX-T Edge Node to my homelab. The video covers setting up the proper Edge Uplink profiles, configuring the Edge Nodes, and finally ...
In my previous video and blogpost, I explained how I set up a fully nested vSphere 7 homelab with NSX-T. Now I want to go back to basics with NSX-T Logical Networking. There is so much exciting content out there on some of the most advanced use cases for NSX-T and last week I realized, ...
In my previous video and blogpost, I explained how I set up a fully nested vSphere 7 homelab in a single box. This new video gives a basic explanation about how I set up NSX-T in a nested homelab: Topics covered in the video Transport Zones Uplink Profiles Transport Node Profiles ESXi Transport Nodes Edge ...
I have been getting quite a few inquiries about my fully nested VMware homelab setup. People seem to be struggling mostly with setting up the networking bits. I describe the overall topology in this blogpost but this blogpost will contain a lot more details on the network configuration. I also made a couple of changes, ...
In my previous blogpost, I explained how to remove a failed PKS cluster by removing the BOSH deployment using the BOSH CLI. Removing the BOSH deployment does not remove the NSX-T objects however. Manually deleting these NSX-T objects using the GUI is prohibited because these objects are supposed to be managed by PKS and are ...
