Blame it on NSX

The ticket’s open, midnight in the cloud A silent fault, but the metrics scream too loud I traced the fiber, the copper and the light But something’s hiding in the overlay tonight The firewall’s clean, every gateway in place But there’s a phantom slipping through address space I’m chasing shadows through a virtual maze Deep in a cold micro-segmented haze Blame it on NSX When the pings go dead and the packets go west Blame it on NSX It’s a logical ghost buried deep in the mesh Don’t check the hardware, don’t check the spec Just point the finger… blame it on NSX The VTEP is silent, no reply in sight ARP tables empty in the neon light Geneve headers looping in my head Dashboard flickers, bleeding crimson red It’s not the storage, not the database The numbers look perfect but they lie to your face A distributed router drifting out of phase Blame it on NSX When the pings go dead and the packets go west Blame it on NSX It’s a logical ghost buried deep in the mesh Don’t check the hardware, don’t check the spec Just point the finger… blame it on NSX Encapsulation failure… Policy divergence detected… Manager… Edge… Control plane unstable… Did anyone check the logs? …Reboot it. …Reboot it. …Reboot it. Blame it on NSX When the pings go dead and the packets go west Blame it on NSX It’s a logical ghost buried deep in the mesh It’s the answer you get when there’s nothing left If it’s still broken… blame it on NSX It’s always the overlay… …always…