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Make Youtube Videos About Technology? Why not… The Cross-Cloud Guy
An update and some reasoning of why I decided to create a YouTube channel about technology called The Cross-Cloud Guy. Continue reading
Author: Aram Avetisyan
Automating (NSX-T) REST API using Ansible URI module
In this post I provide several examples of how Ansible URI module can be used to automate REST API, and specifically VMware NSX-T REST API. Continue reading
Quick Reference: Create Security Policy with Firewall Rules using NSX-T Policy API
A Quick Reference on how to create a Security Policy with Firewall Rules using NSX-T Policy API. Continue reading
Quick Reference: Set NSX-T Web-UI Session timeout
I was doing some testing, and honestly, I got annoyed about NSX-T WEB UI kicking me out of my session after 30 minutes of idle time. So, I got curious, what if someone wants to change this value to a longer one, or may be to a shorter one for security reasons? How can the timeout value be changed? Continue reading
Create NSX-T Tier-0 Gateway using Policy API
Some Background The fact that you have ended up reading this Blog Post, most probably means you are very aware of what the Policy API is, how cool and flexible it is, how you can use a declarative approach to define things and just run one API call to create… Continue reading
Create a Segment using Policy API on NSX-T 2.5
OK, this post will be a simple one. All I want to show is the exact API code with the body you can send to NSX manager to create Network Segments (aka Logical Switches). This information is, of course, available in the NSX-T API guide but to be absolutely honest,… Continue reading
NSX-T 2.4 Active Directory integration using vIDM
As you may already know, after deployment of NSX-T Manager, users are stuck with a single built-in admin user. This might be OK for a lab environment, but in any size of production deployment this is major limitation/problem. In order to have some sort of RBAC, NSX-T Manager requires usage… Continue reading
vCenter HA over Layer 3 Network: Step-by-Step Guide
Intro To clarify, vCenter HA over Layer 3 means that vCenter Active, Passive and Witness nodes will be running on different subnets. And I am not talking about the HA network, I am taking about the Management network. This of course means that you will need to rewrite your DNS… Continue reading
NSX-V Manager Cross Site Failover
Special thanks to Jack Cherkas(@jackcherkas) for helping with this blog. The story So let me cover the scope here:1. The Customer has a Stretched Cross-Site environment, with dedicated Management and Edge clusters in each site, and a Stretched vSAN cluster for Compute (customer workloads).2. There is also a third site,… Continue reading
Creating a Customizable Windows OVF Template
Some time ago I published a post on creating Linux OVF template, apparently people liked the idea because I was asked to do same for a Windows 2016 Server image. If you are a Windows guy, you for sure know that there are millions of ways to deploy customised Windows… Continue reading