I’ve been assigned the task of gathering VPN statistics for a client. Their system operates on VMware NSX 4.0.0.1. After checking, I found that the current PowerCLI lacks the capability to extract VPN statistics. Since VMware NSX has a RestAPI interface, we can perform various actions through RestAPI calls. I’ve… Continue reading
As you might aware VMware announced deprecation of the Integrated Windows Authentication in a future release of vSphere KB. So we had a task for our customers to switch to AD over LDAP authentication. I’ve prepared this manual and want to share it with you to save your time on… Continue reading
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
A Quick Reference on how to create a Security Policy with Firewall Rules using NSX-T Policy API. Continue reading
Part 2 This is Part 2 for the article “Export / Backup VMware NSX ESG/DLR configurations with PowerNSX (part 1, ESGs)”. I’m going to show how you can export configuration for DLRs in your environment. How to use this script The way to use script is the same as in… Continue reading
Why do you need this. If you work with VMware NSX on daily basis you should care about Backup & Restore procedure. According to VMware you can schedule NSX Manager backup and think you are on safe side but restore procedure requires to perform full NSX Manager restore and then… Continue reading
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
Summary Those of you who deal with FW rules creation on daily basis already know how boring could be to create 20-100 FW rules. And what if you need to repeat this task next day or next week again and again. In this case you need to automate this process.… Continue reading
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
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
