Monthly Archives: June 2019

Upgrade NSX-T 2.3 to NSX-T 2.4

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This blog is about how I upgraded my homelab from NSX-T from version 2.3 to version 2.4.First downloaded the NSX-T 2.4.x upgrade bundle (the MUB-file) from the My VMware download portal.

Checking prerequisites

before starting the upgrade , check the compatibly and ensure that the vCenter and ESXi versions are supported.

Upgrade NSX Manager Resources

In my lab the NSX-Manager VM was running with 2vCPU and 8 GB memory, with this new version minimum requirements went up to 4 vCPUS and to 16 GB of RAM.So in my case I had to shut down the NSX-T Manager and upgrade the specs to 6 vCPUs and 16 GB of memory as i was seeing 4 vCPUs were 100% getting utilised.

The Upgrade Process

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After uploading the MUB file to the NSX Manager which takes some time, the file is validated and extracted which again takes little extra time. so in my Lab downloading, uploading, validating and extracting the upgrade bundle took around 40 – 50 minutes. so have patience.

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After you click on “Begin Upgrade” , accept EUPA, it will throw a message , upgrade “upgrade corrdinator” , click on “Yes” and wait for some time , post “upgrade coordinator” update session will logout , login again , you will see a new upgrade interface: NOTE – Do not initiate multiple simultaneous upgrade processes for the upgrade coordinator.

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Host Upgrade

Select the hosts and click on Start to start the hosts upgrade process.

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While upgrade is going on continue to check you vCenter , at times ESXi host goes not go in maintenance mode due to some rule/restriction created by you , so help your ESXi server to in to maintenance mode.

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Continue to monitor the progress once done successfully , move to “Next”.

Edge Upgrade

Clicking on “NEXT” will take you to Edge section , click on “Start” and continue to monitor the progress..

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very simple and straight forward process , once upgrade completed , click on “Next”

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Controller Upgrade

In NSX2.4 onwards , controllers has been merged in to NSX Manager ,so no need to upgrade controller , move ahead and upgrade NSX Manager.

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NSX Manager Upgrade

upgrade of NSX Manager gives to two options:

  • Allow Transport Node connection after a single node cluster is formed.
  • Allow Transport Node connections only after three node cluster is formed.

choose option which is configured in your environment.

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Accept the upgrade notification. You can safely ignore any upgrade related errors such as, HTTP service disruption that appears at this time. These errors appear because the Management plane is rebooting during the upgrading. Wait until the reboot finishes and the services are reestablished.

You can get in to CLI, log in to the NSX Manager to verify that the services have started run: #get service When the services start, the Service state appears as running. Some of the services include, SSH, install-upgrade, and manager.

Finally after around one hour in my Lab , Manager is also get updated successfully.

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so this completes the upgrade process, check the health of every NSX-T component and if everything is green , you can now go ahead and shutdown and delete the NSX controller.Hope this help you in your NSX-T upgrade planning.

 

 

 

 

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Setup RabbitMQ Server on Ubuntu for vCloud Director

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I am working on a Lab which require messaging queue server , so i setup this and thought of sharing the steps, so here it is..

AMQP is an open standard for message queuing that supports flexible messaging for enterprise systems. vCloud Director uses the RabbitMQ AMQP broker to provide the message bus used by extension services, object extensions, and notifications. we will be setting up this on Ubuntu System , so download Ubuntu and install it on a VM and then follow below steps

Update Ubuntu System

Before starting, you will need to update Ubuntu repository with the latest one.You can do so by running the following commands:

  • #sudo apt-get update -y
  • #sudo apt-get upgrade -y

Installing Erlang on Ubuntu

Before installing Rabbitmq, we will need to install erlang as a prerequisite of rabbitmq. You can install by running the following commands:

Once we are done with Erlang installation, we can continue with installation of RabbitMQ.

Installing RabbitMQ on Ubuntu

First we will need to add Rabbitmq repository to apt and to do that run the following command:

Once the repository has been added, Add the RabbitMQ public key to our trusted key list to avoid any warnings about unsigned packages:

Next step is to update the apt repository with the following command:

  • #sudo apt-get update

Once the repository is updated, go ahead and  install rabbitmq server by running the following command:

  • #sudo apt-get install rabbitmq-server

Once installation is complete, start the rabbitmq server and enable it to start on boot by running the following command:

  • #sudo systemctl start rabbitmq-server
  • #sudo systemctl enable rabbitmq-server

You can check the status of rabbitmq server with the following command:

  • #sudo systemctl status rabbitmq-server 

To enable RabbitMQ Management Console, run the following:

  • #sudo rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management

Login to URL using IP address with port number 1567, here it is you have successfully installed RabbitMQ.

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Change default admin user (For security hardening)

By default the admin user for RMQ installation is guest/guest. we can change the default admin account by using below commands

  • #rabbitmqctl add_user vmware vmware  (first vmware is admin username and second vmware is password , you change it based on your requirement)
  • #rabbitmqctl set_user_tags vmware administrator (taging user with Admin priveledge)
  • #rabbitmqctl set_permissions -p / vmware “.*” “.*” “.*”
  • Now you can login with new admin user.
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Go ahead and configure it in your vCD instance.

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This completes the installation and configuration process.