Tag: NSX Edge
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NSX 9 Performance and Sizing: Edge Throughput, EDP and DFW Scale (NSX Series, Part 26)
NSX performance is decided at design time, not tuned later. Here is how Edge form factor sets your north-south ceiling, why EDP and DPDK matter, how the distributed firewall scales with hosts instead of choking a chokepoint, and the sizing math I actually use.
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NSX 9 VPN: IPSec and L2VPN, Policy-Based vs Route-Based (NSX Series, Part 17)
NSX runs site-to-site IPSec and L2VPN on the Edge. Policy-based vs route-based IPSec, when each fits, and how L2VPN stretches Layer 2 across sites for migration and DR.
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VCF 9 Cutover and Decommission: The Teardown Failures That Actually Bite (VCF 9 Series, Part 18)
Cutting over to VCF 9 and tearing down the old environment? Here are the decommission failures that bite at workload domain delete, host removal, NSX edge and vSAN evacuation, and how to recover.
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NSX in VCF 9 Explained: Transit Gateways, VPCs and the Distributed Firewall (VCF 9 Series, Part 10)
NSX in VCF 9 keeps Tier-0 and Tier-1 but puts a cloud-style VPC model in front: NSX projects, one Transit Gateway each, distributed routing with no Edge VMs, and the DFW.
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VCF 9 Network Design: 7 Mistakes That Break Your Deployment (VCF 9 Series, Part 5)
Seven network design errors that fail a VCF 9 bring-up, framed as symptom, cause and fix. The MTU drop on a single transit hop is the one that wastes the most hours.
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Dr Pranay Jha
Dr. Pranay Jha is a Cloud and AI Consultant with 18+ years of experience in hybrid cloud, virtualization, and enterprise infrastructure transformation. He specializes in VMware technologies, multi-cloud strategy, and Generative AI solutions. He holds a PhD in Computer Applications with research focused on Cloud and AI, has published multiple research papers, and has been a VMware vExpert since 2016 and a VMUG Community Leader.
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