vRealize Network Insight 3.5 NTP Changes

With the release of vRealize Network Insight 3.5 the install and boot now has a mandatory requirement on NTP.  If your installing it and don't point it to a valid NTP source (I used my Domain Controller which technically isn't a valid NTP source) you might see the following when issuing the show-service-status command via the Platform CLI (Default credentials can be found here):

Simply issue the setup command and change the NTP source, I used uk.pool.ntp.org.  Once this change has been made the services will restart and you should see all green when issuing the show-service-status command again:

p.s.  Check out the new PCI Compliance dashboard in version 3.5.

Thanks to Hirdesh Gupta from the Customer Support and Operations team for pointing this out

Free NSX Guides

VMware have released three new NSX Guides that are available to download as .pdf's (I've also added the link for the Micro-segmentation Day 1 Guide for completeness):

VMware NSX Micro-segmentation: Day 1 Guide

VMware NSX Micro-segmentation: Day 2 Guide

Operationalizing VMware NSX

Automating NSX for vSphere with PowerNSX

Original post on blogs.vmware.com can be found here.

PowerNSX baked into the NSX Hands on Labs

This year I had the pleasure of  building out some of the VMware NSX labs for VMworld 2017 Hands on Labs. The base pod that I built is currently in use in the following labs:

HOL-1803-01-NET - VMware NSX - Getting Started

HOL-1803-02-NET - VMware NSX - Distributed Firewall and Micro-Segmentation

HOL-1803-03-NET - VMware NSX - Operations and Visibility

HOL-1825-01-NET - VMware NSX - Advanced Consumption

HOL-1825-02-NET - VMWare NSX and SRM - Active-Standby Solution

Anthony Burke (Blog | Twitter) reached out asking if it was possible to have PowerNSX installed in these labs. So, although we don't take advantage of PowerNSX in these labs, it is installed in the labs listed above. If your at VMworld Europe then you can have a play otherwise you will have to wait until they are released publicly.