cloudmaniac.net - Romain Decker

VMware released NSX for vSphere 6.2.3 last week: although considered as a minor release, NSX 6.2.3 brings a lot of enhancements. We also released Log Insight 3.3.2 at the same moment. The big news is that you get now** Log Insight for free if you are entitled to NSX**…yes, for free! :) The announcement was not the easiest to guess in NSX 6.2.3 release notes: VMware vRealize Log Insight 3.3.2 for NSX provides intelligent log analytics for NSX, with monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities and customizable dashboards for network virtualization, flow analysis and alerts. ...

The 6.2.3 version of NSX for vSphere was released yesterday (June, 9th 2016). NSX is VMware’s solution to virtualize network and security for your software-defined data center. NSX network virtualization decouples the network from hardware into a software abstraction layer which allows you to programmatically create, provision, and manage your networks. Although considered as a minor release, NSX 6.2.3 brings a lot of enhancements. What’s New in NSX 6.2.3? NSX Hardware Layer 2 Gateway integration (a. ...

VMware introduced the vSphere Web Client with vSphere 5.0 release. Initially not aligned to the C# Client in terms of features, its current version allows to manage every aspects of our products and is very similar in look and feel to the former legacy client. The decision to use Flash was made a long time ago in a galaxy far far away, before HTML5 was ready (HTML5 was finalised in 2014). ...

I consider APIs as the Graal for building, maintaining, operating and monitoring your applications and infrastructures. However, finding API documentation can be difficult, especially if you don’t know where to look: this is where Platypus intervenes! :) A few days ago, I was procrastinating on VMware GitHub account when I noticed this project. Platypus is an initiative to improve documentation across a number of VMware’s products as described using Open API and Swagger UI. ...

NSX for vSphere 6.2 brought a lot of new great features such as multi-vCenter support, traceflow, or L2 bridging interoperability with Distributed Logical Router. One of the new enhancement in the operations and troubleshooting category is the new NSX-V Central CLI which provides read-only commands available centrally on the NSX-V Manager to query all your NSX elements. CLI commands already existed in earlier releases of NSX (pre-6.2), but you had to log into each of the elements composing the NSX infrastructure (controllers, edges, hosts). ...