In NSX-v 6.2.3 a new feature to aid troubleshooting and operations got introduced, called Central CLI for Packet Capture. The feature is intended to reduce the administrative burden of logging onto any ESXi host to start a packet capture. The ability to perform packet captures for troubleshooting network issues is …

Packet capture is an essential tool in any network/systems engineers toolset, mainly when working with services in a development environment or during troubleshooting. So recently when I was testing the installation of the NSX VIBs onto the nested ESXi host in my VMware Workstation lab, I wanted a facility to capture …

Capturing packets on the NSX Edge is relatively simple, the ESG uses similar capture syntax to that of TCPDUMP with a few minor caveats, which I will cover in this post. When doing a packet capture, the primary thing to do is to identify the interface you want to capture traffic on and then define the traffic capture …