This series will document my journey in creating a Kubernetes cluster in my home lab, which consists of a handful of mac minis with ESXi 7.02 installed and some shared storage. I appreciated that most people would use a public cloud offering for this service but to understand how this service works, I decided to … Read more
Service Engines are created within a group, which contains the definition of how the SEs should be sized, placed, and made highly available. Each cloud will have at least one SE group. The options within an SE group may vary based on the type of cloud within which they exist and its settings, such as … Read more
Over the past few years, I have been looking trying to secure the home network, since our kids are growing up fast and are needing to use internet-based services, and especially now with COVID necessitating remote access to school services. Besides, my eldest has a phone, which means that any protection applied at home is … Read more
Lessons LearnedHow did i fix it?Conclusion Lessons Learned: I have been using the Mikrotik CRS326-24S+2Q+ switch/router for approx 6 – 8 months and have been using it exclusively for my home lab. Over the last few months, I have been experiencing timeouts, packet drops and in general network slowness that you wouldn’t expect from a … Read more
In this section i will explain how to deploy an NSXALB controller and form a cluster. Once the cluster has been created we can deploy the (Data plane) Services Engines and the load balancers. Process: Deploy the Controllers Configure first controller node Configure Cluster Deploy the Controllers: Download the ova file and start the ova … Read more
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