Tag: NSX
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NSX 9 Host Transport Node Prep: VDS, EDP and Verifying It Worked (NSX Series, Part 6)
Preparing an ESXi host as an NSX 9 transport node: what it installs, how the Transport Node Profile applies VDS and EDP across the cluster, and how to verify it.
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NSX 9 Manager Deployment and Cluster Bring-Up in VCF 9 (NSX Series, Part 5)
In VCF 9 you do not install NSX Manager, VCF does. Here is what the workflow deploys, the prerequisites that decide success, shared vs dedicated, and how to verify.
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NSX 9 Design and Planning: Transport Zones, MTU, TEP Pools and EDP (NSX Series, Part 4)
The NSX 9 design decisions that decide whether your overlay works: the single overlay transport zone, GENEVE MTU, TEP IP pools and VLANs, and EDP mode.
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NSX 9 Licensing and Editions: VCF vs Standalone and the vDefend Trap (NSX Series, Part 3)
How NSX 9 is licensed in VCF 9: what the base bundle includes, why security needs a vDefend add-on at full core count, and when standalone NSX makes sense.
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NSX 9 Architecture: Management, Control and Data Planes (NSX Series, Part 2)
How NSX 9 splits into management, control and data planes, what the converged NSX Manager cluster does, the CLI to check it, how to size it, and what breaks when each plane fails.
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VKS Networking: NSX, VPCs and the CNI Options (VKS Series, Part 6)
Antrea by default, NSX VPCs or VDS on 9.1, and CIDRs that must not collide. Here is the VKS networking design that keeps clusters reachable instead of stuck.
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Networking for VMware Private AI Workloads: Segmentation, Ingress and the East-West Path (Private AI Series, Part 26)
Model serving lives or dies on the network nobody designed. Here is how to segment AI namespaces with NSX, expose inference endpoints through the Gateway API and the load balancer, and keep RAG east-west traffic fast and private.
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Bringing Existing vSAN and NSX Under VCF 9: The Brownfield Import Requirements (VCF 9 Series, Part 14)
The VCF 9 import workflow brings an existing vCenter, vSAN and NSX in as a workload domain, but it switches on the Distributed Firewall and trips over ELM, standard switches and baselines. Here is what actually breaks in the field and how to get ahead of it.
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Avi Load Balancer vs NSX Native Load Balancing in VCF 9: Which to Choose (VCF 9 Series, Part 11)
In VCF 9 the NSX native load balancer is deprecated and Avi is the strategic choice. A clear feature, architecture, licensing and migration comparison, with a definite verdict.
Architect’s Toolkit
PJ’s Tools
VMware Cloud Foundation
- VCF Documentation
- VCF 9 Planning & Preparation Workbook
- VCF Bill of Materials (BoM)
- VMware Compatibility Guide
- VMware Interoperability Matrix
- VMware Configuration Maximums
- VMware Ports & Protocols
- VMware Hands-on Labs
- RVTools Download
Nutanix
AI & Cloud-Native Platform
- NVIDIA Build (Model Catalog)
- NVIDIA AI Enterprise Reference Architecture
- NVIDIA NIM Performance Benchmarking
- NVIDIA NGC Catalog
- NeMo Microservices Helm Chart
- Helm Charts Repository
- Hugging Face Models
Architecture & Design
About the Author
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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