Since we launched our EasyAvi Fling (formally known as Easy Deploy for NSX Advanced Load Balancing), we’ve had a lot of feedback from external and internal users. Most of the feedback was very positive on the tool but some users also ran into a number of minor bugs or missing features. The workflow could also […]
Read More Fling Update: EasyAvi v2.0I recently had a requirement where a customer needed to access the VMware Cloud on AWS NSX-T manager directly. By default, any APIs calls relating to Network and Security on VMC on AWS have to be targeted to the NSX-T Reverse Proxy and not directly to the NSX-T platform. The Reverse Proxy is public-facing and […]
Read More Terraform NSX-T in VMC – NSX Manager Private IP supportDisaster Recovery is a topic that comes up in most of my interactions with customers. In my 3+ years in the VMware Cloud team, my general observations are: Some customers’ DR strategy is limited to copying data to offsite tapes… but most large enterprise customers I talk to have a secondary or tertiary site they […]
Read More VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery – Walkthrough and Integration with the SDDC Import/Export FlingAs I was becoming familiar with Terraform and all the clouds it could automate, I started to realize there were things it couldn’t interact with. Even within VMware, while we have a number of providers for services and products like NSX-T, vSphere, VMware Cloud, vCloud Director or vRealize Automation, there are still many products that […]
Read More Extending Terraform – A Deep DiveWhen customers start using cloud infrastructure, there are five key networking components they want to replicate within their virtual cloud environment: Router Switch Firewall VPN Load-Balancer Out-of-the-box, VMware Cloud on AWS gives you the first four components but the Load-Balancing was somehow lacking. Yes, we could use virtual appliances from vendors like F5. Yes, we […]
Read More New Fling: Easy Deploy for NSX Load Balancing a.k.a EasyAviI have blogged in the past about the various options you can use a ‘custom’ Terraform provider – that is to say, a private or experimental provider not hosted on the Terraform Registry. There are many ways to achieve this but in the latest 0.14 Terraform version, there is a great option that makes it […]
Read More Mini-post: Dev_overrides Terraform BlockThis post will cover some caveats with regards to NSX-T segments and APIs. I will focus on VMware Cloud on AWS and Terraform but many of the comments will also apply to standard NSX-T. Let’s go through a concrete example. Creating a Network Segment with Terraform Most of the Terraform for NSX-T examples I have […]
Read More Fixed Network Segment vs Flexible Network Segment in NSX-TSecond edition of my monthly roundup! Customer Engagements With my role changing recently, I am less involved directly with UK customers but I tend to work with any customers worldwide around discussions on automation or advanced networking and security. I also focus on being a bridge between our customers and our product teams, to ensure […]
Read More My Monthly Roundup – February 2021Since I last blogged about the VMware Cloud Marketplace, a lot of has happened with this service: they’ve merged it with the VSX (VMware Solution Exchange) and renamed it to VMware Marketplace (see the announcement). I hadn’t had many reasons and opportunities to use it but I’ve been thinking about the whole VM provisioning recently […]
Read More Automated Consumption of the VMware MarketplaceToday (8th February 2021), I’m delighted to announce the release of our new Fling : SDDC Import/Export for VMware Cloud on AWS. A common request from VMware Cloud (VMC) on AWS customers and partners is the ability to save the configuration of a VMC environment (a Software-Defined Data Center – SDDC) and restoring it to […]
Read More New Fling: SDDC Import/Export for VMware Cloud on AWS
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