The impact of coding
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
VMware{code} Hackathon
The VMware code Hackathon was on last night. The inaugural event headed up by Alan Renouf and William Lam saw 6 teams of people hack it out for a few hours to create something cool. Piling into the room there…
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…
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…
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…
Use PowerCLI to upgrade vSphere
So today marked the release of vSphere 6.0 U2. This is pretty cool because it adds the vSphere Host Web Client. A much-needed upgrade if you speak to administrators of a vSphere environment. I have a small lab of around…
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 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,…