Hey Steve, first thanks a lot for the content with great visualised way of explaining - you solved so many of my problems. I just have a quick question, I am a networky guy who is trying to understand NSX to implement it for our infrastructure team in our data centre To make it simple, assume the physical network is like switch1-router-switch2 just like your presentation. How many and what vlans do I need to trunk up from physical switch to ESXis? For example, you may say one vlan for vm data, another for vMotion, third one for vSAN, another one for ESXi management (not for OOB which connects to NSX CCP) one for VM OS management….. so how many? Thanks Ali from the farthest place in the world, NZ
Great question. You would need these vlans and perhaps more depending of other services you may want.. 1 - Management (including ESXi, vCenter, CCP, and NSX Manager) 1 - NSX Overlay traffic - This is what the VM's will communicate across. Geneve will be encapsulated 1 - vSAN - If you are using it 1- IP Storage - If you are using it 1-vMotion Traffic 1- vSphere replication - if you are using it 1- vSphere Fault Tolerance traffic - If you are using it 1- Net Flow Data - again if you are using it.. That'' about all I can think of at the moment.. Have a good one.
Great video, very nice and informative. Suggestion : If you can change the font color on the CLI because its not clear. I am sure its not my brightness or eyes :d
@@kavanspace1654 You lucked out. I was checking the messages this morning, when this one popped in.. Great timing.. I normally reply to everyone, usually within a day or 2. Have a good one..
Is there a particular order that should be used to create the NSX environment for example after watching your video, I came up with whats below. Create: Tzone > TEP IP Pool > Up Link Profile > Segment > Transport Node Profile > Configure NSX cluster, thanks
Thanks for watching. The order for a full deployment is generally as follows, but some can be change.. 1. PRep your vSphere Environment - Set your vDS MTU to a min of 1700 bytes 2. Deploy NSX Manage node 1 3. Register Compute Manager (vCenter Server) 4. Deploy 2 more Manage Nodes to creat 3 node cluster 5. Add NSX License 6. TEP-Pools, Uplink Profiles, and Transport Zones are optional as you can use default TZ and uplink profile and DHCP for TEP's. 7. create Transport Node Profile (Optional but save time) 8. Prepare your vSphere cluster for NSX 9. After this order is up to you.. Typically deploy your edges, then Gateways, Segments and so on. Hope this helps.
Great content thank you - Is there a specific\logical order you would suggest watching your NSX-T videos in? Or just follow them as numbered in the playlist?
Hi There. Thanks for watching. I just put the video's in a better order so you can build your environment from beginning to end.. Hope this helps and have a great day..
Thanks for watching. Actually in my Lab the VM's have Static IP's configured.. I will be doing a video on various DHCP options hopefully in another week..
