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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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,…
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…
Using PowerCLI to match VTEP binding to hosts
A quick one today on PowerCLI. A colleague asked about how to retrieve a list of VTEPs assigned to a host. I was asked because they though PowerNSX may actually do this but low and behold, good old PowerCLI can…
Query IP address (and other info) of Virtual Machine
I’ve been working on some different things lately and wanted to share with you a tool I used to help verify data. Whilst I am not ready to reveal all that I am working on I have had the requirement…
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…
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,…