Tag Archives: NSX

vCD Edge SSL Certificate Management via PowerShell for tenants

By | | Networking, NSX, PowerCLI, PowerShell, REST API, vCloud Director
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Tom Fojta has a couple of really good blog posts on his blog (https://fojta.wordpress.com/) about using Let’s Encrypt certificates on an NSX Edge Load Balancer. The first part can be found at https://fojta.wordpress.com/2016/07/16/automate-lets-encrypt-certificate-for-nsx-edge-load-balancer/ and the second part at https://fojta.wordpress.com/2019/12/21/automate-lets-encrypt-certificates-part-2/. The method described in these posts relies on connectivity with the NSX management … Read more →

vCloud Director Extender – Part 5 – Stretch Networking (L2VPN)

By | | Networking, vCloud Director, vCloud Director Extender, VMware
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In this 5th part of my look into vCloud Director Extender (CX), I deal with the extension of a customer vCenter network into a cloud provider network using the L2VPN network extension functionality. Apologies that this post has been a bit delayed, turned out that I needed a VMware support … Read more →

vCloud Director Extender – Network Ports

By | | Firewall, Networking, vCloud Director, vCloud Director Extender, VMware
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One of the things which appears to be missing from the published documentation on vCloud Director Extender (CX) is any mention of the communications internally between the deployed appliances and other VMware infrastructure components (vCenter, vCloud Director etc.) In a service provider context it is unlikely that the appliances will … Read more →

Uploading / running utilities directly on ESXi hosts

By | | PowerShell, VMware
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As part of planning our upgrade from VMware NSX-V from v6.2.2 to v6.2.4 we became aware of the VMware issue KB2146171 (link) which can cause VMs to lose network connectivity when vMotioned to other hosts following the upgrade. Obviously wishing to avoid this for our own (and customer) VMs, we … Read more →