NSX-T – Catbird IT Consulting Services

Catbird – 5 Years in Business

Marking five years of delivering specialized VMware by Broadcom solutions across large-scale infrastructure projects. Over the past five years, Catbird has provided deep technical expertise to two of Sweden’s largest telecom operators and several top-tier Swedish Cloud Service Providers. Catbird design, build, and modernize future-proof infrastructure in environments where availability, Read more

By Jimmy Mankowitz, 2 weeks ago 2026-10-14

Broadcom Cloud Foundation ESXi NSX-T VCF vExpert VMware

Upgrade to VCF 9.0 from VCF 5.2.x

This main blog will link to multiple smaller blogs that describes the way to go to successfully upgrade VCF VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2.2.1 to VCF 9.0. I will try to go through the prerequisites and also the requirements inorder to end up with a brand new version of VCF. In Read more

By Jimmy Mankowitz, 1 year ago 2026-01-07

Cloud Foundation NSX-T Tanzu VCF vExpert VMware vRealize Network Insight vROPS vSphere

Passed VMware by Broadcom Cloud Foundation 5.2 Administrator VCP-VCF Certification

Today I passed the 2V0-11.24 VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2 Administrator VCP-VCF Certification The VMware Certified Professional – VMware Cloud Foundation Administrator certification validates my ability to install, configure, manage, and perform basic troubleshooting of the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) solution. It proves I am knowledgeable of the features, functions, and Read more

By Jimmy Mankowitz, 2 years ago 2024-12-27

NSX NSX-T VCF vExpert VMware vSphere

Deploy a NSX Edge Cluster in a consolidated VMware Cloud Foundation, VCF

VMware Cloud Foundation uses a software-defined networking (SDN) product called NSX. NSX allows you to create virtual networks, routing, and load balancing for your virtual machines. It automates the process of setting up the virtual network and connecting your virtual machines to the physical network. NSX Edge nodes are special Read more

By Jimmy Mankowitz, 2 years ago 2024-09-02

Cloud Foundation ESXi NSX-T VCF vExpert VMware vSphere

Build a Consolidated Home Lab with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF 5.1)

I have been working with designing and deploying a new Consolidated home lab based on VMware by Broadcom Cloud Foundation VCF 5.1. The hardware that has been acquired inorder to set it up was the following. 4x Supermicro SYS-E300-9D-4CN8, mini Superserver Xeon D-2123IT 4x1GbE 2x10GbaseT 2x10G SFP+4x SuperDOM 64GB SATADOM Read more

By Jimmy Mankowitz, 2 years ago 2024-08-13

ALB AVI Cloud Native Apps K8S NSX-T Tanzu Tanzu Vanguard Telco Cloud Automation vExpert VMware

AVI – NSX Advanced Load Balancer for Telco Cloud Platform with Tanzu Part 2

In this Part 2 of my series on how to utilize VMware by Broadcom NSX ALB for Ingress Traffic for Container Network Functions I will explain the last bits what is needed. Why do we need NSX ALB for Cloud Native Functions in Telco? So now that we know the Read more

By Jimmy Mankowitz, 3 years ago 2024-03-11

Cloud Director NSX-T vExpert VMware

Add DNS to External Network in VMware Cloud Director OpenAPI

Background When trying to add or Edit DNS servers to an External Network that is imported from a NSX-T Segment in Cloud Director the Edit is greyed out. This makes it not possible via UI to edit. The reason we want DNS on the External network might be a Use-Case Read more

By Jimmy Mankowitz, 3 years ago 2024-03-11

NSX-T vExpert VMware

NSX-T 3.2.2.1 upgrade to 4.1.1.0 fails with Search Service and UI, HTTPS are unresponsive and not starting

During a customer case I had we were doing upgrade of NSX-T from 3.2.2.1 to 4.1.1.0 and in the last moment when the NSX-T Manager node upgrade was being performed the NSX UI, HTTPS service is not starting. During the last step when the UI is being Unpinned from the Read more

By Jimmy Mankowitz, 3 years ago 2024-01-04

ALB AVI NSX-T vExpert VMware

NSX-T Prevent Password Lockout for AVI ALB and other automation with lockout_immune_addresses

In NSX-T when the admin account password expires and you have integrations with NSX-T that is using this account, and have not had time to update the administrator password in the integrations and in NSX-T. You will find that the admin account can get locked out.After five consecutive failed login Read more

By Jimmy Mankowitz, 3 years ago 2023-11-06

Cloud Native Apps NSX-T Tanzu Tanzu Vanguard Telco Cloud Automation vExpert

AVI – NSX Advanced Load Balancer for Telco Cloud Platform with Tanzu Part 1

This is Part 1 in a long blog post is meant to show step by step instructions on how to configure AVI NSX Advanced Load Balancer for Telco Cloud Platform by utilizing BGP Peering between ALB and NSX-T T0:s over Overlay Segments to expose Kubernetes services for ingress traffic against Read more

By Jimmy Mankowitz, 3 years ago 2023-10-24