PowerCLI and Opaque Networks
It seems using Opaque networks has got a bit easier in a recent release of PowerCLI. NSX-T Logical Switches are seen as opaque networks by a vSphere host. This means that traditionally you had to modify the view of the…
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[Release] Project Magpie for NSX
Getting started with Project Magpie The original launch post can be found here. Project Magpie’s goal is to provide an OVA based appliance that will serve as a framework for various tools to support operation and management of VMware NSX…
PowerNSX.github.io website re-launch
PowerNSX website relaunch With VMworld come and gone it was time to give some attention to PowerNSX usability. The website, powernsx.github.io contained a decent repository of snippets and examples of PowerNSX. It allowed users, in conjunction to the built in…
Book Release: Automating NSX for vSphere with PowerNSX
Book Release: Automating NSX for vSphere with PowerNSX When I was first shown PowerNSX a few years ago, I immediatly was hooked. I wanted to contribute on all fronts. This was code, documentation, web tasks, training materials, VMworld sessions, Tech…
PowerNSX in VMware Hands on Labs
PowerNSX in VMware Hands on Labs VMware Hands on Labs provide a plethora of free, online labs to validate and test features of VMware products. HOL-1803-01-NET – VMware NSX – Getting Started HOL-1803-02-NET – VMware NSX – Distributed Firewall and…
FQDN based IP Sets in DFW rules
Using PowerNSX to create FQDN populated IP Sets NSX for vSphere does not have the ability to create FQDN based rules. Traditionally, a FQDN based rule will use the management planes registered DNS server to perform a lookup against a…
Upcoming Book: Automating NSX for vSphere with PowerNSX
Automating NSX for vSphere with PowerNSX I’d like to announce today an upcoming VMware Press book titled Automating NSX for vSphere with PowerNSX. In collaboration with Nick Bradford and Dale Coghlan, it will be a free book published by VMware…
What’s new in PowerNSX lately?
Hello fellow users of PowerNSX. It’s Anthony from the PowerNSX team and here are some of the recent updates in PowerNSX. The list below does not include all of the changes. Some of the bigger ones are called out below.…
Powershell for Network Engineers
The ever wonderful Ivan Pepelnjak over at ipspace.net asked me back in December to join him for a Webinar on PowerNSX. Given that he was hosting a two part series on ‘Powershell for Network Engineers’ this was pretty great. As…
Where are my Ports?
When searching for a service that includes a port the UI is not overally helpful. It is currently constrained by scope. Searching port by range is something that is easily done with PowerNSX. This includes values that contain the desired…
Contain yourself PowerNSX, please!
Recently, PowerNSX was released to work with PowerShell Core. This was a substantial undertaking from Nick Bradford to submit some pull requests to PowerShell Core, create a new method of handling web requests, and then wholesale adjusting PowerNSX to work.…
SysSet – A Syslog Configuration Tool for NSX Edges
I had a colleague the other week ask about changing a few hundred NSX Edges Syslog address. There was some configuration drift in the environment where the edges fell into a few different categories. The Edges either didn’t have configuration,…
NSX Full Stack deployment
In our line of work we are often deployment clean NSX environments in the lab. One of our labs allows us to deploy a multi-cluster vSphere environment and configure it with storage, clusters, vCenter elements, and DVS with PowerCLI very…
Automating deployment of 8-way ECMP
Quite a while ago NSX for vSphere brought the ability to use ECMP for Edges. This allowed multiple paths within the network for increase availability and bandwidth for applications. ECMP is nothing new to networking and is quite the done…
Copy NSX-Edge
There are a lot of times where people have asked it would be great to have an ability to clone an edge. Take all the configuration and duplicate it easily. Well now you can. The Copy-NsxEdge function takes an already…
NSX Visio Diagramming Tool
At VMworld US and Europe this year, Nick Bradford and I presented on PowerNSX. PowerNSX provides a PowerShell module featuring a substantial number of cmdlets that cover the NSX API. Working in concert with PowerCLI it becomes possible to interact…
PowerNSX – Validating logging status on DFW rules
A colleague reached out to the PowerNSX team recently. The request was on behalf of a customer who had inconsistent logging status for their DFW rules. This can be done with PowerNSX. The first example will retrieve all sections, retrieve…
VMworld 2016 – PowerNSX and PyNSXv session
Last week was my first large US vendor conference. VMworld was chocked full over people wanted to know about all things applications, automation, infrastructure, and IT. After an overwhelming experience on the vendor floor (I am introverted) I took cover…
Released: PowerNSX v2
VMworld 2016 has come and gone and one of the best releases of new software (I could be bias here) is PowerNSX. PowerNSX is a PowerShell module that abstracts the VMware NSX for vSphere API to a set of easily…
License NSX via automation with PowerCLI
Quick one today. As of NSX 6.2.3 and 6.2.4 onwards there are licensing tiers. Standard, Advanced, and Enterprise unlock a different set of features. Whilst I won’t hop on the soap box about that today (buy me a beer and…
Testing Distributed Firewall heap usage
The Distributed Firewall in NSX for vSphere is comprised of a number of memory allocations. These memory allocations are also known as heaps. These are allocated based on the amount of physical memory that a server has. The memory heaps…
Loops and Power(shell)NSX
There was a request on the internal PowerShell slack channel. It was about how to make over 4,000 Security Groups and probably as many Security Tags for NSX. PowerNSX fits very well here. The requirement was to take the given…
Deploy, Configure, and Microsegment Log Insight
Building on a couple of recent blog posts I have made some PowerShell functions that wrap elements of the Log Insight JSON REST API. Using a mixture of PowerCLI, PowerNSX, and Power LogInsight commands it is possible to deploy Log…
PowerNSX Log Insight Segmenter
PowerNSX has been a focus of mine for a little while. I also have a penchant for Log Insight. I like the product. I have outlined previously a blog here for approaching the segmentation of any application with Log Insight…
My VMworld 2016 submissions
VMworld Public voting is on now. There is information about each session and public members are encouraged to vote for interesting sessions. Alas there is not author detail about who is presenting or additional information that was asked for when…