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…
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.…
An early Christmas present
This is a guest post by Nick Bradford, author and founder of PowerNSX. This post originally appeared here I’m breaking a long standing tradition of not blogging, because for once I feel like I truly have something interesting to talk…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Using PowerNSX to clean up network objects
I have been testing and validating PowerNSX lately when making the some new cmdlets. These cmdlets have been related to Security Tags. I am a person who wants to ensure I work on a clean environment each time to make…
PowerNSX – Automating Security Buckets
PowerNSX has been out for a while. I am hearing great things about people using it. The main author Nick has been deploying entire customer environments from scratch with it. That’s right – NSX Manager, Host and Cluster preparation, Controller…
PowerNSX : Automating an entire 3 tier app deployment
Last week PowerNSX hit the streets. I have been helping the author (Nick Bradford) validate and QA a number of pieces of code. To cover off most of the features in the set I decided I would build our standard…
PowerNSX: Automating an entire 3 tier app deployment
Last week PowerNSX hit the streets. I have been helping the author (Nick Bradford) validate and QA a number of pieces of code. To cover off most of the features in the set I decided I would build our standard…
Firewall validation with PowerNSX
PowerNSX – Central CLI Parsing With the code of PowerNSX being put out online there are a lot of new ways of extracting, manipulating, and administrating your NSX deployment. This blog outlines a method of validating the DFW filter and…
PowerNSX – PowerShell extensions for NSX
PowerNSX: PowerShell extensions for the enterprise administrator What is PowerNSX PowerNSX provides PowerShell commandlets or extensions for administrators of NSX for vSphere. PowerNSX delivers the capability to administrators to programmatically drive their infrastructure. Its focus is on exposing New, Update,…
Service Composer, Security Groups, and Security Tags
Service Composer Service Composer within VMware NSX provides an administrator the ability to define a scalable and tiered security policy independent of the underlying infrastructure or routed topology. This is the feature with the NSX platform that allows security to…
Think ‘Cool’ for DevOps Workflow Automation
This post originally appeared on SDN Central. This is a verbatim repost. DevOps practices rely on workflow automation to support evolving software function and programming, especially during the transition into live operations. At the heart of workflow automation lies standardization: the ability to…
Dale dug a hole, Anthony made a script
You may think my title is odd. Well there is an explanation. There is an Australian classic movie called ‘The Castle’. It is about an average Australian family who just make do and appreciate their family and lot in life.…
Dancing on the strings of DevOps
The buzzword in the industry of late is DevOps. It is one that I hope isn’t tarnished by the marketing machine where buzzwords go to die. DevOps is the shift in the paradigm of network and infrastructure management. Centralized infrastructure…
Automating JUNOS
Disclaimer about #NFD4 posts Automation. The benefits I find of automation is that workflows that are in place can be taken and performed on demand without manpower or assets assigned at every stage. Over at Juniper it seems that automation is a big focus…