In this video I will demonstrate how to migrate from a N-VDS to the new vSphere 7.0 VDS using NSX-T 3.0 without uninstalling NSX on the hosts.
This blog post and demo shows how you can use the Terraform NSX-T Provider to quickly configure an Active-Standby Tier-0 with a Tier-1 and a typical 3-tier app topology.
Transport Node Profiles are introduced to automatically configure vCenter Clusters for NSX-T. Additionally a Transport Node Profile maintains Transport Node Configuration at the Cluster level to ensure that when a vSphere Host is added or removed from the cluster it will be automatically be configured or unconfigured. Creating a Transport Node profile has a lot of similarities with the Host Migration from VSS/VDS to N-VDS workflow, which is documented in the Host Migration to N-VDS blog post.
In NSX-T 2.4 the NSX-T Manager is a Converged Appliance where Policy, Management and Control Roles are available on each NSX-T Manager Node and creating a Cluster of three NSX-T Managers. The NSX-T Managers in the Cluster also share a Distributed Persistent Datastore where the Desired State is stored. This feature brings the benefit of availability of all management services across the cluster, improves the install and upgrade process and makes operations easier with less systems to monitor and maintain.
In NSX BGP filters work like access lists for route advertisements (prefixes). The NSX BGP filters are prefix lists which work very similarly to firewall access lists. A prefix list contains one or more ordered entries which are processed sequentially. For each prefix entry you can specify inbound or outbound filters to allow certain routes to be advertised to or from the Edge Services Gateway/Distributed Logical Router.
For example you to want to prevent a route for 10.0.0.0/24 from being advertised in BGP from the NSX Edge Services Gateway.
