NSX – 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

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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 Director NSX NSX-T Tanzu vExpert VMware

vExpert 2023 Subprograms

I am very happy to announce I’m in for another year of 4 Subprograms to vExpert 2023 #vExpertNSX #vExpertCloudProvider #vExpertAVI and #vExpertApplicationModernization VMware vExpert is a global community recognition program that acknowledges and rewards individuals who contribute significantly to the VMware ecosystem. The vExpert program has several subprograms that offer Read more

By Jimmy Mankowitz, 4 years ago 2023-04-15

NSX NSX-T vExpert VMware

Install NSX-T Baremetal Edge with in-band management

Since NSX-T 3.2 was released VMware made it possible to utilize in-band management on Baremetal Edges with Mellanox cards.This was something that before was not supported and could not work. referencing 3.1 Note:If the server uses Mellanox NIC cards, do not configure the Edge in In-band management interface. Background But Read more

By Jimmy Mankowitz, 4 years ago 2022-12-22

NSX NSX-T vExpert vROPS

Create vROPS dashboard for NSX-T SSL Certificates Remaining Days

In this post I wanted to showcase how you setup and utilize vRealize Operations Manager with CloudProxy and Telegraf Agent with a Custom Script and display the information for the remaining days for NSX-T Certificates. This post is based on Thomas Koptons blog about how to utilize Application Remote Collector Read more

By Jimmy Mankowitz, 4 years ago 2022-10-04

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NSX-T 2.5 Custom Monitoring Dashboard

In this post I wanted to explain something that is not well documented with Vmware today. The topic is how to create a custom dashboard in NSX-T based on Widgets. In the NSX-T Manager UI interface there are different monitoring dashboards out of the box that one can view and Read more

By Jimmy Mankowitz, 7 years ago 2019-11-25

Micro Segmentation NSX NSX-T vExpert vRealize Network Insight vRNI

Micro-Segmentation and Security Design Planning with vRealize Network Insight, vRNI

This blogpost has been prepared to describe the Micro-Segmentation and security conceptual design planning utilizing VMware vRealize Network Insight, vRNI. It can act as a support for anyone that wishes to know how to think and implement doing microsegmentation in a VMware based environment either with NSX-V or NSX-T. Some Read more

By Jimmy Mankowitz, 7 years ago 2019-06-13

NSX VMware vSphere

VMware NSX Data Center for vSphere 6.4.4 Released

So the latest patch update for NSX Datacenter for vSphere has been release as of 14 dec 2018. The latest release finally include even more support in the HTML UI in vSphere. NSX User Interface VMware NSX – Functionality Updates for vSphere Client (HTML): The following VMware NSX features are now Read more

By Jimmy Mankowitz, 8 years ago 2018-12-17

NSX vExpert VMware

What’s new and awesome with VMware NSX for vSphere 6.4.1 features and licensing.

I wanted to do give some important changes regarding the latest version update of NSX for vSphere 6.4.1 that was released on May 24 2018. VMware have with this release created a new licensing model that is not that completely different from before but it has some new additions that Read more

By Jimmy Mankowitz, 8 years ago 2018-07-24

NSX

NSX 6.4 Released and a look at the Upgrade Coordinator

NSX 6.4 Released Yesterday 16/1-2018 the new release of NSX 6.4 was Released. Here is a link to the Release Notes There are a bunch of new features that was released and listing the top ones to me are the following: Operations and Troubleshooting: Upgrade Coordinator provides a single portal Read more

By Jimmy Mankowitz, 9 years ago 2018-01-19