Homelab
In this series, I’ll go over the lab environment, which I share with https://www.simplygeek.co.uk/ History: My home lab started at...
January 17, 2024
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Configuring NSX Distributed IDS/IPS
NSX IDS Configuration workflow: Enabling NSX IDSP To enable distributed IDSP for standalone hosts or clusters where traffic passes through...
January 16, 2024
Create an NSX-T manager health check within AVI
Create an NSX-T manager health check within AVI: As previously mentioned in this post AVI and heath check we want...
January 16, 2024
Load Balance NSX-T Managers using NSX-ALB (AVI)
The NSX-T Management Cluster comprises of three NSX-T Manager nodes to provide high availability and scalability. To support a single...
December 7, 2021
Deploy the AVI/NSX ALB Controller/s using Ansible
In this post, we will go through the process of deploying an AVI Controller cluster. The reason for deploying this...
July 9, 2021
How To Use Ansible To Automate AVI deployments in a VMware Cloud
Introduction Server & infrastructure automation now plays an essential role in systems administration due to the disposable nature of modern...
July 5, 2021
NSX-T IDFW how-to guide: How to consume NSX-T IDFW efficiently
I’ve had the privilege of working with VMware’s BU and the Livefire teams on an IDFW design that can be...
June 16, 2021
NSX-T IDFW how-to guide: Get NSX-T IDFW to consume a specific OU
NSX-T IDFW (identity firewall) is a great feature that enables customers to create Active Directory group-based Distributed Firewall (DFW) rules...
June 15, 2021
Lab Deployment of K8s using Ansible Part 2
A brief recap from part 1 Deployed 4x VMs, with ubuntu 20.04 Created an inventory list of the nodes Update...
May 17, 2021
Lab Deployment of K8s using Ansible Part 1
This series will document my journey in creating a Kubernetes cluster in my home lab, which consists of a handful...
May 13, 2021
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