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Nested VMware NSX

Disclaimer:

While I worked for VMware from March 2019 and up until the Broadcom acquisition in November 2023, and continued on with Broadcom, this post (and website as a whole) is solely for my purposes and in no way represents VMware or Broadcom’s views or best practices. Heck, for all I know, this is accidentally working in my lab. Either way, VMware nor Broadcom are officially backing this post.

Introduction

It’s odd to me that I have been a part of the virtual world for quite a while now and have just finally come to terms that I really should figure out the basics of VMware NSX. With Broadcom’s shift to pushing VMware VCF, this just makes sense. However, even with a Cisco CCNA certification under my belt for the last seven years and working with networking equipment for the past ten years, VMware NSX continues to confuse me and only recently am I starting to make sense of it.

Hopefully this post will help others out there that are trying to learn VMware NSX and the nuances that go long with it, especially in a nested lab.

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MyLab: Overview

Overview

From time to time, I completely wipe out my lab and just start over. This keeps me fresh on the technology and allows me to discover new puzzles as software is always changing. The one thing that is consistent in my lab is a VMware host, a PowerEdge R730xd, and a Synology DS1511+ Network Attached Storage (NAS).

These new posts are going to allow me to capture any details and be the living documentation. My lab may come up and go down, but a lot of the times I use similar Group Policies or names. These posts will be the information that stays current while the lab is ever changing.

In the future, I would like to get this as code (infrastructure as code), where possible, so that the process is more defined. Rather than build and configure, I would rather configure and build. That is likely a little ways off, however.

To keep things simple, I am going to preface the posts with MyLab: and then include whatever technology I am documenting at that time. The goal for my lab is usually a fully secured and operational VMware Horizon implementation.

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