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    8 Feb, 2021
    What’s new in NSX Migration for VMware Cloud Director 1.2
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    As most of you are aware by now, VMware announced the sunsetting of NSX for vSphere (NSX-V), and the current end of general support is targeted for January 2022, while the end of technical guidance will be in January 2023. It is important that Cloud Providers migrate from NSX-V to NSX-T as soon as possible. As the process for larger providers will take a good amount of prep work and testing, the earlier they start the better their experience will be. The good news, the migration tools available this time is very helpful to streamline the process.

    There are multiple methods to migrate from NSX for vSphere to NSX-T Data Center. They are listed below in the order of their usability in a VMware Cloud Director environment:

    • VMware NSX Migration for VMware Cloud Director can migrate the workload VMs and other organization VDC objects to the same vCenter Server instance managed by VMware Cloud Director. This is the option you really want to use if you have VMware Cloud Director in your environment. Here is the link for download. Here is the link as well for features supported by the migration tool.
    • Coexistence – New workloads are deployed on NSX-T, and the older workloads are allowed to die over time.

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    19 Apr, 2020
    How to Change VMware NSX-T Manager IP Address
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    VMware NSX-T logoThere is often the situation where you need to change the IP addresses of your NSX-T Managers. For example, you might be changing your IP schema as I am doing currently in my home lab. NSX-T does not have a field to change the IP address of it’s NSX Managers, but you will need to add new NSX Managers with the new desired IP, then gradually delete the old ones. Luckily the process is easy and straight forward as documented below.

    Note: While I only have a single NSX-T Manager in my environment as it is a small home lab, usually in a production environment, you always want to maintain 3 NSX Managers active to sustain your NSX-T availability. Try to follow one of the below two approaches to maintain that.

    • Scenario A:
      • Manager A has IP address 172.16.1.11.
      • Manager B has IP address 172.16.1.12.
      • Manager C has IP address 172.16.1.13.
      • Add Manager D with a new IP address, for example, 192.168.55.11.
      • Remove Manager A.
      • Add Manager E with a new IP address, for example, 192.168.55.12.
      • Remove Manager B.
      • Add Manager F with a new IP address, for example, 192.168.55.13.
      • Remove Manager C.
    • Scenario B:
      • Manager A has IP address 172.16.1.11.

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