Step-by-Step: Remove a Node Permanently from a vSAN Cluster
Recently I decided to decommission a node from my vSAN-based home lab cluster hosted on the cloud to decrease the cost of my powered on servers. I want to share…
Step-by-Step: Deploy VMware NSX-T 2.4.1 Manager
I have been designing and deploying NSX-v solutions as part of my PSO role for the past 3 years. Aside with that, I decided to start my journey towards NSX-T…
Replace a Failed vSAN Diskgroup on a VCF Managed Node
September 9, 2021 Replace a Failed vSAN Diskgroup on a VCF Managed Node VCF Upgrade Workflow Description – Upgrade – ESX_HOST The Issue? SDDC Manager Upgrade Workflow Fails During the…
Automounting External Drives in Linux
Imagine this situation. You have attached an external USB or SSD to your system and using it as an additional storage media. This is a common use case specially if…
NSX-T 2.4.1: Configure Licensing & Register Compute Managers
In my previous post, I shared a step-by-step procedure to deploy NSX-T 2.4.1 manager. In this post, I am gonna move one step ahead and configure NSX-T licensing and register…
NSX-T 2.4.1: Configure NSX-T Manager Cluster
NSX-T 2.4.x manager is an appliance with 3 built-in roles: policy manager, manager, and controller. The management plane contains the policy and the manager roles. The central control plane includes…
NSX-v 6.4.x: Configure NSX Manager with more than Two DNS Servers
I was preparing for a NSX-v engagement recently where the customer was so curious about the redundancy of all integrated components with the NSX environment. They insisted to add all…
NSX-T: Filter Route Re-Destribution of Transit Subnets to Upstream Router
One of the customer requirements I have been asked to do a couple of days ago is to filter the transit subnets from being re-distributed from the NSX-T domain to…
Customizing Hyprland to Your Liking
So, we will use the format:bind = MODIFIER_KEY,REQUIRED_KEY,DISPATCHERS, PARAMETERS Let’s say, I want to set an option to resize the window by dragging from the border in tiled mode. So,…
Install and Configure Waybar in Hyprland
In the example, we set a custom text “Menu” using the “format” key. The “{icon}” specified in the format will be configured in the format-icons key. Just paste the icon…
NSX-T Federated VCF Regions (VCF Multi-Region)
October 25, 2021 NSX-T Federated VCF Regions (VCF Multi-Region) A Step-by-step approach A Written Guide to NSX-T Federated VCF Regions The intention of this post is to provide some of…
Installing the Much Hyped Hyprland on Linux
Once all queries are answered properly, it will set the configuration accordingly.sudo pacman -Syu hyprland hyprpaper xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland waybar wofi kitty sddm If you are installing Hyprland as the only option,…
NSX-T: Configure DHCP Server
Recently I have been working with a NSX-T engagement in a customer environment where they have NSX-v for their production environment and they requested to implement NSX-T in their UAT…
NSX-T: Configure Network Address Translation (NAT)
Introduction Network address translation (NAT) in NSX-T Data Center can be configured on Tier-0 and Tier-1 gateways. Different types of NAT rules can be configured: Source NAT (SNAT): Supported on…
Configure NSX-T 3.x Load Balancer for Cloud Director 10.x Cells
As I started my cloud director (formerly vCloud director) journey, I am following a learn-by-doing approach as I want to set up my cloud director environment and blog about it…
NSX Application Platform Part 2: Harbor Image Registry
January 5, 2022 NSX Application Platform Part 2: Harbor Image Registry Harbor Image Registry Configuration The Harbor image registry is critical to the successful deployment of the NSX Application Platform…
VMware Cloud Director 10.x Integration with vCenter 7.x and NSX-T 3.x
VMware Cloud Director as a cloud management platform (CMP) offers true multi-tenancy where each customer has a self-service tenant portal that will be used to provision workloads and other services….
VMware Cloud Director 10.x: Org and OrgVDC Creation
An organization is the fundamental vCloud director grouping that contains users, vApps that they create, and the resources that the vApps use. An organization is the top-level container in a…