In some recent engagements i've been involved in getting my customers started with a microsegmentations strategy, and one of the more obvious requests from people new to microsegmentation is to start with their infrastructure. Unfortunately, there is no real guidance out there for VCF + vRealize, and i found that a

if you've read my previous blog post about NSX-T, you should know the basics of what NSX-T does and why it's the best thing since mankind invented rocket surgery. In this post we'll try to give you a brief overview of the steps to take to deploy NSX-T in your lab environment the easy way.

Since my last tweet and blogpost on a bug in NSX-T when deploying on a nested ESXi host, i've had a few requests from people to describe the actual lab setup used, the procedure and a quick-and-dirty guide to get started with NSX-T on vSphere. This blogpost will focus on

As today was a lab day for the first time in a long while, i decided to finally get around to finishing my NSX-T nested lab. So after deploying the manager and controller cluster, the time comes to prepare the ESXi hosts. And as we are preparing we run into