VMware NSX VPN tunnels statistics collection with PowerShell

I’ve been assigned the task of gathering VPN statistics for a client. Their system operates on VMware NSX 4.0.0.1. After checking, I found that the current PowerCLI lacks the capability to extract VPN statistics. Since VMware NSX has a RestAPI interface, we can perform various actions through RestAPI calls. I’ve… Continue reading

Export / Backup VMware NSX ESG/DLR configurations with PowerNSX (part 2, DLRs)

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Part 2 This is Part 2 for the article “Export / Backup VMware NSX ESG/DLR configurations with PowerNSX (part 1, ESGs)”. I’m going to show how you can export configuration for DLRs in your environment. How to use this script The way to use script is the same as in… Continue reading

Export / Backup VMware NSX ESG/DLR configurations with PowerNSX (part 1, ESGs)

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Why do you need this. If you work with VMware NSX on daily basis you should care about Backup & Restore procedure. According to VMware you can schedule NSX Manager backup and think you are on safe side but restore procedure requires to perform full NSX Manager restore and then… Continue reading

NSX-T 2.4 Active Directory integration using vIDM

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As you may already know, after deployment of NSX-T Manager, users are stuck with a single built-in admin user. This might be OK for a lab environment, but in any size of production deployment this is major limitation/problem. In order to have some sort of RBAC, NSX-T Manager requires usage… Continue reading

App Volumes permissions on ESXi host

We are using AppVolumes Manager on several environments together with Horizon View. When we were deploying the first AppVolume Manager I was asked to provide permissions for AppVolume Manager to local ESXi hosts to avoid using root permissions. There are guides which you can use to setup all required permissions… Continue reading

Horizon – One Golden Image, multiple Desktop Pools

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How to reduce the overhead of managing multiple Desktop Pools under Horizon? This is the question that everyone asks when they have multiple Desktop Pools serving multiple customers and one Golden Image for each of them. Answer to this question is very simple, multiple snapshots on the same Golden Image.… Continue reading