The NSX-ALB Controller is the single point of management and control that serves as the “brain” of the entire system and for high availability is typically deployed as a three-node cluster. As its name implies, the Controller implements the control plane. A single NSX-ALB deployment is managed from this Controller/cluster (identified by FQDN and/or cluster … Read more
What Is an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) Intrusion Detection (ID) is the process of monitoring for and identifying attempted unauthorized system access or manipulation. An ID system gathers and analyzes information from areas within the network to identify possible security breaches which include both intrusions (attack from outside the organization) and misuse (attack from within … Read more
The First step to configure LDAP user or group authentication is to ad an LDAP identity source to the management cluster In my case i will be using a Windows 2016 AD Server that i use for my lab Hostname : lab-ad01.lab.local To configure the LDAP connection: Click on system Click on Users and Roles … Read more
login into the MSX manager UI https://nsxmanagerip Click System -> Overview -> Add Nodes: 2Select the Compute Manager from the drop-down menu, enable SSH (if required), enter the cli and root password, DNS, NTP and select the form factor: Note: Select the same form factor as of the first NSX-T manager deployment in https://virtual-llew.com/nsx-t-deployment-deploy-nsx-t-manager/ Specify the name, … Read more
Prerequisites IP Information Create four “Host A” records in your DNS server for the three NSX-T Manager/Controller nodes that will be deployed and one for the virtual IP. Her is an example that i have used in my environment FQDN IPnsxmgr01.lab.local 192.168.50.51nsxmgr02.lab.local 192.168.50.52nsxmgr03.lab.local 192.168.50.53nsxmgr.lab.local 192.168.1.50 DNS Server NSX-T Data Center appliance password At least 12 … Read more
Process Open an SSH session to the first deployed NSX Manager node. (In my case 192.168.50.1 nsxmgr01.lab.local)Log in with the administrator credentials On the NSX Manager node, run the get certificate api thumbprint command. The command output is a string of numbers that is unique to this NSX Manager. Run the get cluster config command … Read more
What is a compute manager? A compute manager, for example, vCenter Server, is an application that manages resources such as hosts and VMs. In the current release only vCenter is supported NSX-T Data Center polls compute managers to collect cluster information from vCenter Server. This helps with the auto deployment of new nodes within a cluster for example … Read more
Step one: taking a Network Interface Card inventory on an ESXi host Step Two: Collect NIC Vendor and device ID numbers: Step Three: Decode the NIC Vendor and device ID numbers into the format VID:DID SVID:SSID Example: VID = Vendor Id = 14e4 DID = Device Id = 165f SVID = Sub-Vendor Id =1028 Max SSID = … Read more