NSX for vSphere: Add Floating Static Routes to NSX Edge via REST API
Recently I have been engaged in a NSX-v PSO engagement where we need to make sure all the best practices are applied to the environment. Trust me, with every engagement,…
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FOSS Weekly #24.48: Archcraft, elementary 8 Release, Hyprland Guides, New COSMIC Release and More
Share it with your Linux-using friends and encourage them to subscribe (hint: it’s here).These stages can include: Black Friday Deals for Linux Users — 2024 EditionBlack Friday is here. Don’t miss the…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
