In this blog post we will talk about a potential impact to some LDAPS installation after upgrading NSX to version 4.1. In NSX version 4.1 support for old TLS cipher suites have been removed, while this may be a good step to enforce stronger security measures there still are servers which do not support newer […]
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Using vCenter Plugin for NSX and the special embedded NSX appliance file
In this blog post we will talk about NSX embedded appliance. Most of us are familiar with the process of installing NSX manager using the OVA file, however you can also install NSX manager using the NSX plugin in vCenter. This gives you the flexibility to manage NSX directly using vSphere UI. In vSphere client […]
10 ESXi commands that are useful for troubleshooting network connectivity
If you are new to VMware ESXi or NSX environment and find yourself in a situation where you have to troubleshoot connectivity issues, having list of commands that can provide information about switchports/uplinks and help you get packet captures would save a lot of time. In this blog post we will talk about 10 commands […]
NSX manager certificate has expired alarm
In this blog post we will talk about how to approach NSX manager certificate expiry issue. NSX manager uses certificates for various purposes. You can check certificates from NSX manager UI. System > Certificates Following are commonly listed certificates in UI and their usage – These certificates can se self-signed or CA signed certificates. By […]
Python and NSX SDK for Python with NSX manager | Part-1
In this blog post we will see how to use Python and REST APIs with NSX manager. NSX-T manager provides programmatic access to automate NSX-T Data Center using REST API. In this blog post we also see how can we utilize Python SDK for NSX-T. As per API guide, NSX-T APIs follow REST architecture using […]
Interact with VMware NSX using manual and programmatic methods
In this post we will explore different methods to login to VMware NSX Manager. If you are reading this you are probably new to NSX. There are two flavors of NSX – NSX-V or NSX for vSphere, and NSX-T or NSX Transformer with NSX-T being the new version. This post does not cover NSX-V. NSX-V […]