In the previous post, I showed how to integrate vIDM & NSX ALB. However any user that was assigned to the vIDM SaaS catalog item had super user permissions. Lets be honest, that's just easier to work with right? But.. some orgs prefer more selective permissions.

Here I will show how to use vIDM and be able to …

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Integrating vIDM with NSX ALB (formally known as Avi) is documented officially here: https://avinetworks.com/docs/21.1/configuring-saml-with-workspace-one-for-avi.

I was easily confused by it, due to some of the configuration being masked out. These are the same steps with my own notes & screenshots.

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I’m sure we’ve all felt the wave that is Kubernetes over the past few years. I watched Getting started with Kubernetes from Nigel Poulton, which was enjoyable, but I still didn’t see the light, so to speak.

In 2019 when VMware first announced Tanzu, I knew it was going to be big, but I thought it would be another …

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Upgrading NSX-T in the lab, the Host Pre-Check came back with:

Disk space requirements not met. Please ensure 180MB free space is available in tmp partition to proceed with upgrade.

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Over the years you hear some great IT horror stories. Hopefully by sharing it, others can learn and have a good laugh. Names have been changed to protect the innocent.

Part I - A New Hope

The team had created a bootable CD that could re-image an ESXi host within 10 minutes. Late one night, rather than troubleshoot an …

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In a VCF 4 multi AZ deployment, before stretching the cluster to AZ2, there's some manual tasks required for the T0 to peer with the ToR switches in AZ2. The process is well documented in the NSX-T Data Center Configuration for Availability Zone 2 for the Management Domain in Region A on the VVD6 documentation pages. …
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During a VCF 4 Bring-up of a single Management Domain, the validation tests passed all OK. But during the deployment, it failed during the NSX-T tasks, specifically on the "Verify BGP Route Distribution" - "Failed to validate the BGP Route Distribution result for edge with ID ". …
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On the 30th July, 2020, NSX-T 2.5.2 was released. Check out the release notes.

This is a minor update with almost 80 issues marked as fixed.

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Last month VMware released updated versions of some exams, including the VCAP-NV Design exam based on NSX-T 3.0. In the past year or so I've been working a lot more with NSX-T, but.. I'm not a real* networking guy, so I wasn't confident in taking NV exams.

After passing the VCP-NV on NSX-T 2.4 earlier in the year, I …

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