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(How-To) Replace NSX-T Self-Signed Certificates

October 9, 2020 by Steve Younger

Once you have completed the install of your three NSX-T manager nodes it is a good idea to replace the certificates with certificate authority (CA) signed certificates with your domain. This will provide better security knowing the web page you are connecting to is trusted. Also, you can avoid that annoying “Your connection is not private” page. We will walk through how to replace all the system generated certificates used with the NSX-T manager platform.
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(Troubleshooting) NSX-T Manager Disk is Full

February 25, 2020 by Steve Younger

If the NSX-T manager appliance disk gets full, the manager may not function properly. The appliance can be sluggish or unresponsive. Logins can fail even though you KNOW the password you are entering is correct. We will walk through how to recover your NSX-T manager appliance by freeing up disk space when you cannot login due to the disk being full.
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(How-To) Reset/Recover NSX-T Root Password

October 14, 2019 by Steve Younger

We’ve all heard about or been in the position where the only person who knew a critical server password has left the company. Or over time and through various change control, the password documented is no longer working and rebuilding the server from scratch for any reason is never appealing, let alone the core appliance… Read more
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(How-To) Install Your First NSX-T Manager Node

October 12, 2019 by Steve Younger

We walk through how to deploy the OVF of the NSX-T manager using the OVF wizard from within vCenter server.
(How-To) Disable NSX-T Manager TLS Protocol Versions

May 20, 2020 by Steve Younger

To ensure our servers are only accepting connections using secure cryptographic protocols we often need to restrict which protocols are enabled on a server. NSX-T manager appliances include TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 enabled by default. This article will walk you through confirming what TLS protocols are enabled as well as how to disable TLS protocol versions to harden your deployment.
(How-To) Setup Automatic Backups For NSX-T

April 13, 2020 by Steve Younger

We are going to walk through how to successfully configure automatic SFTP backups of our NSX-T manager as well as walk through the folder structure created during each backup and what log messages are generated so you can spot key phases of the backup being passed so you can narrow your troubleshooting if a backup failure occurs. Finally, we will walk through how to automate the cleanup of old backup files.