This is the third installment in a series of articles for micro-segmentation with vRA and NSX-V. The previous articles in the series can be found here: Part 1 Part 2 This article wasn't going to be written as my mini series was complete on this topic however I discovered an issue with my configuration and … Continue reading vRealize Automation with NSX-V Micro-Segmentation (part 3)
Month: Oct 2018
vRealize Automation with NSX-V Micro-Segmentation (part 2)
This article follows on from a previous micro-segmentation article (Part 1) and expands its use case a little bit further. In part 1 we had a very simple 3 tier application with a single machine in each tier as shown in this diagram. To help increase the scalability and availability of the application, our use … Continue reading vRealize Automation with NSX-V Micro-Segmentation (part 2)
vRealize Automation with NSX-V Micro-Segmentation (part 1)
This article is as much a reminder for me as it is for you. Sometimes when you don't cover a particular topic for a while it's a good idea just to sit down and play with technology, especially when there are new product versions to consider. The Scenario The scenario for this article is as … Continue reading vRealize Automation with NSX-V Micro-Segmentation (part 1)
vRealize Automation – NAT NSX Edge Internal Error
This short post covers an issue I came across the other day when testing out deploying a vRA blueprint that was configured with an "On-Demand NAT Network". Every time I tried to use the blueprint it would fail halfway through with the following error. No data for field segment: Current field-id [address], current field path … Continue reading vRealize Automation – NAT NSX Edge Internal Error
vRA 7.5 Deployed with vRSLCM 2.0 – The Issue with Self Signed Certificates
This article covers an issue that a few people have reported internally within VMware when deploying new instances of vRA 7.5 using vRSLCM 2.0 (pre patch 1). The issue relates to the vSphere Proxy Agent failing to connect back to vRA due to the proxy agent encountering a certificate trust error. In this example, the … Continue reading vRA 7.5 Deployed with vRSLCM 2.0 – The Issue with Self Signed Certificates
Log Insight – Bi-Directional Event Forwarding
This scenario has come up a couple of times with customers I have been working with and it is centered around the following situation/question . I have deployed 2 Log Insight platforms, one for each of my datacenters (assume one vCenter per DC). How do I get all the events in both Log Insight clusters … Continue reading Log Insight – Bi-Directional Event Forwarding
vRealize Operations – Views
Views provide you the ability to define a set of metrics or properties that you might commonly and repeatedly use together for a specific object type. The information displayed in a view can either be a: List – data about an object (or objects) displayed in a table with one object per line Summary – … Continue reading vRealize Operations – Views