{"id":1487,"date":"2019-02-15T10:15:18","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T15:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ithinkvirtual.com\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2019-02-18T13:09:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T18:09:18","slug":"nsx-t-home-lab-part-4-configuring-nsx-t-fabric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ithinkvirtual.com\/2019\/02\/15\/nsx-t-home-lab-part-4-configuring-nsx-t-fabric\/","title":{"rendered":"NSX-T Home Lab – Part 4: Configuring NSX-T Fabric"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Welcome to Part 4 of my NSX-T Home Lab series. In my previous post<\/a>, I covered the process of deploying the NSX-T appliances and joining them to the management plane to have the foundational components ready for us to continue the configuration. In this post, I will cover all the configurations required to get NSX-T Fabric ready for network configurations in order to run workloads on it. So sit back, buckle up, and get ready for a lengthy read!<\/p>\n\n\n\n A compute manager, for example, a vCenter Server, is an application that manages resources such as hosts and VMs. NSX-T polls compute managers to find out about changes such as the addition or removal of hosts or VMs and updates its inventory accordingly. I briefly touched on this in my previous post, stating that one is required if deploying an NSX Edge appliance directly from the NSX Manager. Otherwise, the need for one of these is completely optional but I find value in it for retrieving my labs’ inventory and is the first thing I like to do in To configure a Compute Manager, log into you NSX Manager UI and navigate to Fabric > Compute Managers > +ADD<\/strong>. Enter the required information, leaving the SHA-256 Thumbprint field empty, and click ADD<\/strong>. You should receive an error because a thumbprint was not provided but will ask you if you want to use the server provided thumbprint, so click ADD<\/strong>. Allow a brief 30-60 seconds for the Compute Manager to connect to the vCenter server, click refresh if needed, until you see that it’s “Registered<\/strong>” and “Up<\/strong>“.<\/p>\n\n\n\nCompute Manager<\/h2>\n\n\n\n