I made a career move from local role to a global role mid last year. It’s been almost a year, so I’d like to share the pro and con of both roles. Hopefully it helps you in your career, and keeping the fun in work! It’s common for a global corporation to have 4 levels […]
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Le compte à rebours de VMworld 2017 Europe a commencé. Nous serons à la Fira Gran Via sous le soleil de Barcelone du 11 au 14 septembre prochains, pour quatre jours dédiés aux innovations technologiques autour de l’infrastructure cloud et de la mobilité d’entreprise.
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For the 2weeks I hadbeen having very annoying NTP sync issues on some of my VCSA and PSC appliances in one of the datacenters.
While my SSO domain and vCenter enhanced linked mode werefor the most part working properly, it still bugged me that the NTP clocks on my PSC and VCSA in datacenter 1 wereproperly syncing with the NTP source (windows NTP source), but the NTP time onmy PSC and VCSA in datacenter 2 werealways off with somewhere between 3 to 7 minutes with the clocks of all my other appliances and Windows VM’s. They did how ever sync properly with each other.
(For trouble shooting purposes, I pointed all appliances to a single NTP source in a single data center)
To solve this issue I tried the following things which did not solve the issue:
Step 1
Step 2
This was really getting under my skin so I decided to give my poor head some time because there was no production impact afterall.
Step 3
I have to give you a smallintroduction here. The previous2 days I have been enjoying a seminar on Cisco’s Cloud Center platform, which is a topic for another post. However in that course sitting next to me was a DevOps engineer, Francois, who isvery skilled in Linux and AWS. When he heard about my NTP problem on Linux estate he asked me if he could have a look into this NTP problem with me. Francois and I verified all NTP settings from a Linux perspective. Oddly enough we didn’t find any cause for the time drift.
After about 10 minutes of verifying settings he asked me the following:”Did you run an ntpq -p command yet, to see how much drift you have?” I had not, I didn’t even know the command. This commandshowed me that the drift (offset) between that particular PSC and the NTP time source was somewhere around 15000! Yeah this was not looking good. We went back to inspecting all basic layers of the NTP configuration. Again we didn’t find any issues with the setup.
He asked me if I tried starting and stopping the NTP service itself instead of rebooting the appliances. I had to tell him I hadn’t. However I did reboot the appliances which seemed to solve this issue for some time but never on a permanent basis. We decided tostart and stop the NTP service on itself anyway. You never know, right?
rcntp stop
rcntp start
Bingo! Restarting the NTP service itself seems to solve my issues!
Addendum: It seems that the Security team made a mistake over here and accidentally closed the NTP TCP 123 port.
Kim
If you have ever wanted to deploy stateless VMware vSphere clusters without human intervention, then a new utility that we recently released through VMware Flings program may be of interest. The Host Profiles CLI Fling offers a preview of a new workflow for stateless hosts leveraging Auto Deploy that allows administrators to bring up new compute clusters that are immediately ready to run workloads – no maintenance mode and no remediation required.
VMware vSphere administrators that are tasked with managing large infrastructure estates are turning to Auto Deploy for the ability to standardize on a unified workflow that accommodates not only host deployment, but patching and upgrading as well. Environments that are basedon consistent compute, I/O, and storage hardware are prime candidates for the configuration management that Host Profiles and Auto Deploy bring.
Even when host configurations are highly standardized, there are certain settings that must be distinct per host – things like static IP addresses, hostnames, and certain other site-specific requirements such as unique root credentials. For a little more background on these host-specific configuration elements, check out the recent overview on customizations.
When a new host boots up with Auto Deploy and is attached to a host profile requiring customization, the host will be in maintenance mode and will likely display a number of alerts until customization and remediation are complete:
VMware ESXi hosts are typically customized through the vSphere Web Client interface, and vSphere 6.5 introduced a more efficient mechanism by offering offline batch customization through a CSV file.
Despite the improved ability to edit host customizations through CSV, the workflow still requires human intervention in the middle of a cluster deployment. Thatrsquo;s because the host customizations cannot be exported for editing until the stateless hosts have been brought under vCenter Server management.
The key steps for vSphere 6.5 stateless deployments looks like this today:
What if we changed the sequence of these operations so that no human interaction is required mid-stream?
The goal of the Host Profiles CLI Fling is to show how a vSphere cluster of hosts can be completely pre-configured with all required customizations, before those servers are even dropped off at the loading dock if desirable – all that is required is a unique identifier for each host, such as a MAC address or BIOS UUID.
This command-line utility, called hostprofilescli, works in two phases. Since Host Profiles can be configured in a wide variety of ways, the first step is to extract a configuration template from the target cluster. This ensures all required fields that apply to an arbitrary profile are known and described for the vSphere administrator to work with. That template CSV can be populated manually usinga spreadsheet or otherwise generated automatically from a source of configuration management data. Once the cluster is defined in the CSV file, the second stepis to import those data to vCenter Server. Behind the scenes, the utility creates placeholder objects in the vSphere inventory and applies the necessary customizations to each one. When the hosts eventually boot onto the Auto Deploy network, they will be joined to vCenter Server – fully-compliant and ready for use.
In the animation below, you can see how the utility is used to extract a template, populate host configuration details, and then import those configurations to vCenter.
The pre-customization workflow summary is as follows:
Notice that at no time are Auto Deploy rules required for booting these stateless hosts – the utility takes care of creating necessary associations directly. Besides deploying an entire new cluster, the workflow can just as effectively be used to add a group of hosts to an existing cluster.
This command-line utility also has several other configuration capabilities, such as import/export, setting a root password, and changing the system image cache setting from stateless to stateless cached or stateful. Some of these can be done today using PowerCLI.
Please note that the primary goal of this command-line utility is to introduce the concept of a different workflow that may appeal to larger customers that do frequent vSphere deployments using Auto Deploy and Host Profiles.
Depending on the feedback we receive regarding this Fling, we will prioritize adding this pre-customization functionality to an officially supported VMware product – most likely to PowerCLI. If you feel this would be valuable, reach out to your Technical Account Manager (TAM) or to me to let us know – I would be happy to speak with you about your vSphere deployment and lifecycle management scenarios.
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Last year at Build, Microsoft made headlines when they announced a tech preview of Bash on Ubuntu for Windows. This new feature, by nearly all accounts, has been a huge success for Microsoft and today, the company is expanding the Linux flavors that can be run on the Windows 10 subsystem for Linux.
For starters, Microsoft is going to streamline the installation process of the Ubuntu subsystem by moving the install process to the Windows Store. While the previous method of installing Bash on Windows 10 was not all that cumbersome, by bringing the bits needed to get up and running with Ubuntu inside of Windows 10 to the store, the process becomes significantly easier.
In addition to Ubuntu, Microsoft is also working with SUSE and Fedora to allow those iterations of Linux to be able to run inside of Windows 10. These versions of Linux will also make their way to the Windows Store as well in the near future.
Microsoftrsquo;s goal is to make developing on Windows a better experience than using a flavor of Linux. In the past, many developers preferred the console on Linux to that of Windows and now that Microsoft has opened its doors to Bash, the company is making serious strides to remove the last vestiges of why you want to develop in Linux instead of Windows.
This is certainly not an end-all solution for everyone and there are still reasons why you would want to run a native *nix setup instead of running it inside of Windows but for development purposes, having Bash on Windows is a big leap for productivity. Microsoftrsquo;s goal is to allow Windows to run the best Linux and Windows apps side-by-side and they are continuously taking iterative steps to making that dream a reality.
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Later this year, Microsoft will be releasing another large update to Windows 10 and the company is calling this release the Fall Creators update. If that name sounds familiar, thatrsquo;s because the spring update that was released a few weeks ago was also called the Creators update.
Confusing naming convention aside, this release contains many new features and is much more substantial in what it delivers when compared to the spring Creators update. There are new apps to help you transform your photos and videos, a new design language called Fluent Design System, placeholders for OneDrive, one clipboard for all your devices, a feature to jump backwards in time to find what you were working on and finally the ability to move between devices and pick up where you left off.
Here is how Microsoft describes each of the new major features coming to Windows 10 later this year:
If you are looking at this list and thinking what’s in this release for businesses, Microsoft tells me that they will announce more features (specifically for the IT pro audience) at a later date. As for what the new business features will include, that’s not known yet but we do know that they are working on new Advanced Threat Protection models for the browser and it’s likely safe to say this feature will arrive with this release.
One item left off the above list that was supposed to ship in the first Creators update is the People Bar. That feature has already been released to those running the Insider builds and of course, will come to all users when this update begins shipping to everyone.
Microsoft has not officially locked down the day that this feature update will be released but the company has previously stated that they plan to offer feature updates twice a year with the second arriving in September. Based on this public roadmap, it looks like around late September or early October is the likely release window for the Fall Creators update.
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Several years ago, Microsoft had a feature for OneDrive that would allow you to see files stored in the cloud locally without having to actually download the file to your machine. This feature was loved by many but because the implementation did not work well with third party applications and confused users, it was removed.
Today, Microsoft is announcing the triumphant return of this feature but there are a few changes including the name. This new feature is called On-Demand files and it works with both OneDrive personal and business as well as SharePoint online.
With this feature, you can access all your files stored on these services locally by downloading the file on demand by accessing it with File Explorer or any other Windows Store app just like it was always stored on your local drive. As with the previous version of this feature, the non-downloaded files will not take up any meaningful amount of space.
To help users distinguish where a file is stored as this was an issue with the original implementation of placeholders, a new status icon will be used in File Explorer. As you can see in the image above, the files are clearly shown to be stored either locally or in the cloud. Additionally, you can right-click on any file or folder and make that content always available.
As you would expect, if you are not connected to the Internet, files stored in OneDrive that are not downloaded locally will be unavailable.
For IT Admins, this feature will also help reduce bandwidth usage as Files On-Demand will reduce network bandwidth by eliminating the need to continuously sync shared files on every synced device as teams collaborate. Prior to this feature, whenever someone syncs an online team site, files are re-downloaded on all synced devices every time there is a change.
This feature will likely be welcomed by the thousands who have loudly protested to Microsoft that they would like to see this feature return to Windows 10. Expect to see this feature show up in a Windows 10 Insider build this summer with general availability this fall.
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Podczas pierwszego dnia trwającej w Seattle konferencji Microsoft Build 2017, Scott Guthrie, wiceprezes Microsoft odpowiedzialny za dział Cloud and Enterprise oraz Scott Hanselman, główny architekt odpowiedzialny za zespół Microsoft Web Platform, poinformowali o rozszerzeniu Portalu Azure o poglądową wersję kompletnej powłoki Bash - Azure Cloud Shell.
I attended an APJ-specific Q & A with Michael Dell. If find these things fascinating because they generally highlight (at least to me) how much of a grip on both the business and technology side MD has. It also reminds me that the poor guy must get a lot of silly questions every single day of the week.Also, blurry photos? I’ve got you covered.
CIOs in India are asking to delivery business value every day. How is Dell responding in terms of the new acquisition models in terms of mid-market and enterprise?
MD: You donrsquo;t do IT for fun. You do it to be more productive, enable growth. You canrsquo;t do anything without IT though. Companies are having to re-imagine their business. IT Transformation. Workforce transformation – not everything is being done with the mobile phone. But there was a rsquo;defocusrdquo; on things like PCs. They got old. Productivity fell. Having the lowest cost PC doesnrsquo;t retrain or attract good talent. And it all has to be secure. The role of IT in business has never been greater than before.
You said that HPE were shrinking their way to success last year. Has your opinion changed?
MD: Wersquo;re continuing to grow. Wersquo;ve made some big, bold choices about our business. Customers have been positive. Strong momentum in APJ.
Compare now and 5 years from now – what will be the biggest changes? And how will you do it? And what market segments do you want to win that you havenrsquo;t?
MD: 5 years, 10 years. The SDDC will become the de facto standard. SDN is starting to emerge. Storage virtualisation is well advanced. Enables moving the focus up to the application level. Emergence of 5G cellular network. Expect it to be a global phenomenon. Itrsquo;s not about phone calls. Itrsquo;s about data. Low latency will lead to different kind of distributed computing. IoT, plus AI and machine learning and deep learning – itrsquo;s going to be amazing. Building the company around these new requirements. Every industry is having to re-imagine itself given this access to data. The art of the possible. Scared of new entrants showing up without that baggage too. Itrsquo;s changed a lot in the last 5 – 10 years.
Which market segments?
MD: Wersquo;re focussed on infrastructure. We want to be the essential infrastructure company for the fourth industrial revolution. Pivotal is creating new kind of infrastructure for the cloud-native world. Not going to do everything, lots of partnerships and alliances.
There was a PC era, there was a smartphone era. Whatrsquo;s the next big thing in consumer world?
MD: From the perspective of the consumer, it will be easier to tell you what wersquo;re not going to do. We’re notreally a company that is mostly focussed on the consumer. If yoursquo;re going to sell PCs to business, the individual consumer must love them. We’re focussed on data centre, enterprise. Donrsquo;t expect voice-activated gadgets to manage your home from us.
In the run up to the merger, the company divested some software assets. Increasingly IT is all about software-defined. How are you going to continue innovating? When do you see a time when IT is a utility, if at all?
MD: Our SW business is much larger than before. We got rid of Quest, but we bought EMC (RSA, Pivotal, etc). What you saw on stage today were a lot of software products. VMware is a massively successful software company. Pivotal is a company that has created a whole ethos to create software. As for utility models, we talked about Cloud Flex program on the first day. People moving to pay by usage model. Wersquo;re happy to embrace that.
US tech giants often leave AU, etc off the guest list for major announcements. Will all this stuff be available in AU? If not, why not?
MD: We operate in 180 countries, we donrsquo;t do everything everywhere. We have a tiered approach. Australia happens to be one of those countries we focus on first. We have a global business in nature. You can expect the vast majority of this stuff to be available all over the world.
Wersquo;ve been hearing good stories about the merger. Any struggles?
MD: Wersquo;re quite happy with the way the combination has come together. Customers have observed wersquo;ve made a lot of progress over the last 8 months. The biggest surprise was that there werenrsquo;t a lot of surprises. I donrsquo;t have a lot of complaints. Customer demand is quite strong. Integration with VMware has gone extremely well. Pivotal and VMware co-operating. Commitments from global SIs, customers. Customers would rather buy everything from one company. Humbled by reaction from customers. Over half of the mission-critical data in the world stored on Dell EMC.
Post-merger, how will the big Dell tech centres in Malaysia evolve?
MD: These centres are very important to us. Incredibly bullish about long-term growth opportunities in Asia. Big part of our past, present, and our future.
You want consumers to love the product. Why did you let Apple rsquo;floodrdquo; the market with Apple machines that people aspire to own?
MD: Applersquo;s marketshare recently reached a 5 year low. Ourrsquo;s is a 5 year high. We aspire to have our marketshare go up.
A lot has been said about India as a big market. How big is India as a market for Dell? What are your plans for India?
MD: Was our third largest market. When combined with EMC and VMware, it wasnrsquo;t anymore. India continues to grow. Broad range of activities for Dell technologies. Itrsquo;s a great place, important and will continue to be.
Interesting session. 4 stars.
The Education Services program at VMworld 2017 (in both the US and Europe) is designed to hone and validate your knowledge of the latest VMware technologies and solutions. Whether you choose an instructor-led class or online and video training, these courses will prepare you for real-world success and for VMware Certification exams. The onsite certification exam center provides a convenient way to recertify or earn a new VMware Certification, while saving money.
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What's new from the old "Endpoint backup for Microsoft Windows:
See the Release Notes here: https://www.veeam.com/veeam_agent_windows_2_0_release_notes_rn.pdf
Compare editions: https://www.veeam.com/veeam_agent_windows_2_0_editions_comparison_ds.pdf
To integrate with Veeam Backup and Replication, you need to upgrade to 9.5 Update 2, which will be releaset very soon.
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Here are a few features that we hope will help you find the information that you need.
Our site design features search on every page. Wersquo;ve put in a new Elastic Search engine and a taxonomy to help you more easily locate relevant content. You can search the entire site or a particular book.
With tens of thousands of pages of information, you need help reducing the scope of content to the products that you care about. Use the filters to limit your search to particular products, versions, or information types.
Use the MyLibrary feature to assemble custom doc sets that you can share as HTML collections.
The beta launch of this site is only Step 1. Wersquo;ve put in new feedback mechanisms so we can hear from you more often and make more frequent improvements to the site and content.
Let us know if you want to get involved in helping us evolve our docs. Expect to hear more about the docs.vmware.com site as we prepare for the official launch.
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As you all have heard, Microsoft is supporting Linux as a supported operating system for the next version of SQL Server (recently announced to be version 2017).
Didn’t Steve Ballmer call Linux a “cancer” a while back?
Times change. Companies change. Technologies change. It’s how I named my company.
(People rarely change, but that’s a different story…)
Today’s Microsoft is a new Microsoft. Ballmer is not in charge. Satya Nadella is now CEO of Microsoft, and he’s letting the technology drive the company. And drive it is. They are listening to the world with an openness to non-Microsoft technologies in a way that I’ve never imagined.
It is helping me bring back some of my system administration roots. I was such a geek in grade school that I was compiling Slackware Linux kernels when I was in middle school. It wasn’t until high school that I started exploringWindows server administration. This announcement isbringing backsome great memories while exploring the possibilities of this new platform for my DMBS of choice.
Microsoft has listened to the technical communities around the world, and the world wants cross-platform. The world wants choice.
And they’re making it happen.
First and foremost (IMHO), Microsoft wants to appeal to developers. They want their development stack to run anywhere there are developers. Notably, Microsoft just released Visual Studio 2017 for Mac on May 10th! Many developers out there run on non-Microsoft workstations, notably Apple computers. Apple’s OSX operating system is originally derived from the FreeBSD operating system. FreeBSD and other *BSD operating systems share much in common with Linux. So, if you can make SQL Server work on the Apple, you’ve probably made it work on Linux.Arguably, covering these two platforms nails just about every widely adopted development platform out there.
Microsoft also wants to appeal to a broader customer base, which means exploring the other environmentsthat software runs on. An exceptionally high number of the world’s servers are powered by Linux. It’s lean, mean, stable, and powerful. Lots of shops refuse to run a Windows-based server because of a number of reasons, including that their in-house IT staff only have Linux knowledge. These same shops are most likely pressured to run a SQL Server for various applications. I know a number of third-party vended application that require a SQL Server, and previously if an organization dictated no Windows-based servers, that meant that this application would never be adopted in the organization, no matter howwell it would function.
By appealing to these customer bases, they can now facilitate greater opportunities to migrate other DBMS workloads to SQL Server, and largely Oracle. Organizations can now migrate from these DBMS systems to SQL Server but keep the operating system the same (or at least similar). It’s another jab at Oracle. You can run Oracle on Windows. Now you can run SQL Server on Linux!
Another bonus benefit of having native Linux support is that it can now run in a container. Containers are in some ways the next generation of virtualization. Containers allow you to package an application and all its dependencies into a bundle that can be easily transported. You no longer have to worry about the operating system itself, and it makes your application a lot smaller and even more portable.
Finally, Linux is a fantastic cloud platform. The footprint of the Linux kernel and it’s runtime dependencies is absolutely tiny compared to other operating systems. The performance overhead is minimal, and the space consumed is small. For hosting environments or larger scale-out SQL Server farms, the resource consumption savingscould be significant.
This list is in no way exhaustive, and I could ramble on with more ways that fit this list, but I don’t want to bore anyone.
The target audiences are quite diverse as well.
Software developers are a no-brainer with this. Small businesses trying to keep their software licensing costs to a minimum are sure to be attracted to this offering. New startup software businesses with Linux-oriented development platforms can leverage SQL Server. Enterprises and hosting providers can save on Microsoft Windows licensing.
Microsoft is so committed to this strategy that they are now a Platinum member of the Linux Foundation. Microsoft has released the open source .NET Core. Ubuntu now runs on Windows. HDInsight was recently released with Linux support. R Server can run on Linux. PowerShell is open sourced and on Linux!
As you can tell, I’m excited. You might not be running out to replace your servers today, but what this new release provides is monumental.
It provides choice.
I cannot possibly convey here how elated I am at this complete shift in Microsoft’s direction. I think (I hope!) this is not the last time we’ll see this platform expansion for other Microsoft products.
Stay tuned for moreSQL Server on Linux topics, such as how they did it, operating system selection, supportability, command line basics, OS similarities and differences, SQL Server installation, and then moving on to more advanced topics such ashow to configure multiple disks to spread out your SQL Server storage workload footprint and back up to the usual network share.
This is the second blog in a series. See the first blog here: VMTN Global Forums
The foundation of VMware Technology Network is peer-to-peer support and engagement. Community is powered by human connection – the warm feeling of helping another person and the satisfaction of collaborating to solve a problem.
And then therersquo;s the added bonus to participation, the cherry on top, gaining points. The happiness when your answer is marked correct and you can almost hear the points adding up. A little competition to spice things up never hurts, right?
If competition is something you thrive on, and you went to get onto the Weekly, or All-time communities leaderboard (half-way down the homepage), Irsquo;m here to help. These are the 7 ways you can gain points on communities:
While utilizing these 7 methods, keep in mind that as a community member, one must give to receive. Be sure to always mark answers correct or helpful on your queries, like other userrsquo;s status updates, and respond to questions. Visit communities to start gaining points now!
For further information on status/badge levels, gaining points, and gamification visit the Community Rewards Points System FAQ or email the VMTN Community Manager, katieb@vmware.com.
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The VCAP/VCIX v6 Deploy exams consist of remote access into a live lab built on the same infrastructure an interface as the VMware Hands On Labs.
In the past I provided TestTrack as a remote hands-on simulator for the VCAP DCV/DCA Deploy exam. While that environment was very representative of how the exams ran includeing scripted results, it was not scale-able.
The SOSTechBlog VCAP/VCIX Exam Simulation Sample Questions™ consist of rewording existing HOL labs into a format that reflects how questions are phrased and structured on the exams. This will provide a hands-on experience very similar to taking a Deploy exam and provide walk throughs and explanations if needed.
Step 1: Open the first question for your chosen sample exam.
Step 2: Log into the VMware HOL referenced for that question.
Step 3: Resize your screen to 1024×768 and close the HOL manual, leaving the current Question open in a separate tab.
Step 4: Ensure any requirements are met (as stated in the question).
Step 5: Perform the question to the best of your abilities.
Step 6: Refer to the HOL manual for the actual lab referenced for the question to verify your work or answer questions.
Step 7: Repeat 5/6 for all Questions for that exam.
Step 8: Pass the real exam.
Step 9: Profit.
If you have an questions, comments or ideas for questions beyond what is covered in the HOL manuals use the contact form here or find me on Twitter.
VCAP6-NV Question 1
VCAP6-DCV Deploy Question 1 (TBD)
Sample Question Intro
HOL: HOL-1703-SDC-1 – VMware NSX: Introduction and Feature Tour
Prerequisites: None
Lab: Module 1 : Logical Switching
The development team has requested a new North/South network for two of their web servers.
Requirements:
VMware web client login: administrator@vsphere.local / VMware1!
New Logical Switch : Prod_Logical_Switch
Transport Zone : RegionA0_TZ
New Router Interface name: Prod_Interface
Router default gateway: 172.16.40.1 / 255.255.255.0
Virtual machines: Web-03a and Web-04a
Virtual Machine login: root / VMware1!
1) Create the new North/South network.
2) Ensure no configuration changes are required on the physical switches.
3) Ensure ARP suppression is enabled.
4) Connect to the appropriate router on the next available nic.
5) Connect Web-03a and Web-04a to the new logical switch.
6) Verify connectivity between the VMs.
a href=”http://sostechblog.com/2017/05/11/vcap-vcix-deploy-sample-question-guide/”>Sample Question Intro
HOL: HOL-1703-SDC-1 – VMware NSX: Introduction and Feature Tour
Prerequisites: None
Lab: Module 2 : Dynamic and Distributed Routing
An existing three-tier app is currently configured to use an perimeter NSX Edge Gateway. Reconfigure the NSX environment so that the App and Web network use a distributed logical router instead
Requirements:
VMware web client login: administrator@vsphere.local / VMware1!
Three tier application networks:
Web: Web_Tier_Logical / 172.16.10.0/24 DGW: 172.16.10.1
App: App_Tier_Logical / 172.16.20.0/24 DGW: 172.16.20.1
DB: DB_Tier_Logical / 172.16.30.0/24 DGW: 172.16.30.1
Perimeter Edge: Perimeter-Gateway-01
Distributed Logical Router: Distributed-Router-01
New object prefix – tier name (App / DB)
New object suffix – _Tier
1) Ensure the App and DB application networks are removed from the perimeter edge including the interfaces created for them.
Note: Do not change the Web network
2) Add the App and DB application networks to the distributed router.
3) Name the new interfaces with a prefix of the name of the tier and a suffix of _Tier for example App_Tier.
4) Assign the logical router the appropriate default gateways.
Note: Routing protocols will be configured in a later question.