vAntMet's Virtual Musings

Writings and ditherings about all things I encounter as I go through a work-life.

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NSX Packet Walks - Replication Modes

2015-04-20 00:00:00 +0000

This is the third post in the NSX Packet Walks series. You probably want to start at the first post or the second post.

NSX Packet Walks Continued

2015-03-24 00:00:00 +0000

This post is a continuation of the last post where I discussed a very simple virtual network, and a very simple VXLAN environment. If you haven’t already, you will want to read that post first. In this post I’m going to step it up a gear and introduce a virtual distributed router to the mix. This is a key part of NSX and the ability to create virtual networks on the fly without waiting for provisioning externally. It also makes for an interesting thought process when the “router” is distributed across all hosts.

NSX Packet Walks

2015-02-10 00:00:00 +0000

I was once asked an interview question that was a very simple question with an interesting answer: How does a switch pass packets.

VCPN610 Experience

2014-12-12 00:00:00 +0000

This morning I took the VCPN610 Exam according to plan. What didn’t go according to plan was getting a score of 290 when I needed 300 to pass. So near, and yet so very very far.

NSX Glossary

2014-10-24 00:00:00 +0000

This is a list of terms I’ve come accross so far in reading up on VMware NSX.