Over the past few years, I have been looking trying to secure the home network, since our kids are growing up fast and are needing to use internet-based services, and especially now with COVID necessitating remote access to school services. Besides, my eldest has a phone, which means that any
Continue readingLessons LearnedHow did i fix it?Conclusion Lessons Learned: I have been using the Mikrotik CRS326-24S+2Q+ switch/router for approx 6 – 8 months and have been using it exclusively for my home lab. Over the last few months, I have been experiencing timeouts, packet drops and in general network slowness that
Continue readingIn this section i will explain how to deploy an NSXALB controller and form a cluster. Once the cluster has been created we can deploy the (Data plane) Services Engines and the load balancers. Process: Deploy the Controllers Configure first controller node Configure Cluster Deploy the Controllers: Download the ova
Continue readingThe NSX-ALB Controller is the single point of management and control that serves as the “brain” of the entire system and for high availability is typically deployed as a three-node cluster. As its name implies, the Controller implements the control plane. A single NSX-ALB deployment is managed from this Controller/cluster
Continue readingWhat Is an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) Intrusion Detection (ID) is the process of monitoring for and identifying attempted unauthorized system access or manipulation. An ID system gathers and analyzes information from areas within the network to identify possible security breaches which include both intrusions (attack from outside the organization)
Continue readingThe First step to configure LDAP user or group authentication is to ad an LDAP identity source to the management cluster In my case i will be using a Windows 2016 AD Server that i use for my lab Hostname : lab-ad01.lab.local To configure the LDAP connection: Click on system
Continue readinglogin into the MSX manager UI https://nsxmanagerip Click System -> Overview -> Add Nodes: 2Select the Compute Manager from the drop-down menu, enable SSH (if required), enter the cli and root password, DNS, NTP and select the form factor: Note: Select the same form factor as of the first NSX-T manager
Continue readingPrerequisites IP Information Create four “Host A” records in your DNS server for the three NSX-T Manager/Controller nodes that will be deployed and one for the virtual IP. Her is an example that i have used in my environment FQDN IPnsxmgr01.lab.local 192.168.50.51nsxmgr02.lab.local 192.168.50.52nsxmgr03.lab.local 192.168.50.53nsxmgr.lab.local 192.168.1.50 DNS Server NSX-T Data Center
Continue readingProcess Open an SSH session to the first deployed NSX Manager node. (In my case 192.168.50.1 nsxmgr01.lab.local)Log in with the administrator credentials On the NSX Manager node, run the get certificate api thumbprint command. The command output is a string of numbers that is unique to this NSX Manager. Run
Continue readingWhat is a compute manager? A compute manager, for example, vCenter Server, is an application that manages resources such as hosts and VMs. In the current release only vCenter is supported NSX-T Data Center polls compute managers to collect cluster information from vCenter Server. This helps with the auto deployment of new nodes
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