![[Release] Project Magpie for NSX](https://i1.wp.com/networkinferno.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/PowerNSX@3.png?resize=574%2C380&ssl=1)
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 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 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 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…
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…
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…
A few weeks back I was asked by Scott Lowe if I wanted to be interviewed. At first, I was puzzled. Why would someone want to interview me? Scott was looking for people to talk about their personal career journey.…
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.…
I have spent a lot of my time over the last year going from a total novice with programming to actually being comfortable with Powershell. As someone who has come from a CLI networking background I did spent a lot…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
I was chatting to a colleague recently and they were talking about using NSX Edge Gateway for load balancing a distributed install of vRA7. Amongst other things they mentioned that it would be good to consistently deploy a new load…
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 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…