Container vs VM: Hypervisor War is Over!
I’m going all in on containerization in 2025. What is the state of container vs VM in 2025? Take a look at a few of the advantages of containers vs…
Deployment of NSX Edge Failed
Scenario: So, I was full of energy completing one of my NSX 6.3.5 deployments. Everything was straight forward deploying NSX Manager, Controllers, preparing hosts, configuring VXLAN, … etc, until I…
VCSA6.5 – Failed to Upload Files to Datastore or Deploy NSX Manager OVA
Introduction: From my opinion, setting up a lab and trying to break and fix the deployment is the best way to learn about the product before implementing a production environment….
Get Your “VMware vSphere 6.5 Host Resources Deep Dive” eBook
This is my first time I attended VMWorld Barcelona 2017. What an amazing event !!! During my visit, I grabbed a hard copy of the “VMware vSphere 6.5 Host Resources Deep…
MTU Change on a vSphere Environment
A jumbo frame is an Ethernet frame with a payload greater than the standard maximum transmission unit (MTU) of 1,500 bytes. Jumbo frames allow ESXi to send larger frames out onto the physical network . Jumbo Frames can…
Migrating Workloads onto VSAN
Recently, I have been engaged in multiple deployments for customers trying to move out from their traditional datacenters to a VMware-based hyper-converged infrastructures. HCI and especially VMware VSAN brings a…
Building a Multi-NIC VCF 4 Workload Domain using API | LAB2PROD
September 29, 2020 Building a Multi-NIC VCF 4 Workload Domain using API | LAB2PROD Using API to create a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) multi-nic workload domain In this article we…
Offline Manual ESXi Upgrade via CLI
Greetings, With the release version of vSphere 6.5, VMware Update Manager (VUM) now comes embedded within vCenter Appliance (VCSA) 6.5. VUM can then be used to upload patches to its…
Isolated vCenter 6.5 HA nodes “Failed to ssh connect peer node x.y.z.w”
Introduction: Prior to vSphere 6.5, Windows Failover Cluster and Fault Tolerance (after it was improved to support 4 vCPU in vSphere 6.0) were two applicable methods to protect vCenter. These…
Home Lab Tour 2024: Servers, Apps, Docker, and more!
It is that time again! My home lab tour 2024 takes a look at the journey my home lab has taken in 2024. I have fully migrated workloads to mini…
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VMware vRealize Log Insight Error Hostd: [LikewiseGetDomainJoinInfo:354] QueryInformation()
For those of you who do not know vRealize Log Insight. It is a log collector and analyzer, with a pretty, simple and intuitive GUI. An easy way of managing…
VMware VSAN & Boot Devices considerations
Recently, I have been engaged in multiple VSAN HCI projects designs. One of the most interesting decisions to take was the kind of boot devices that will hold the ESXi…
VSAN Considerations with PERC R730 RAID Controllers
I have been working on a VSAN design and deploy engagement for one of our customers, and we went up having some limitations and decisions that have to be taken…
Coredump Partition Sizing on a VSAN 6.6 ESXi Node
In one of my VSAN design engagements, we have VSAN 6.6 ESXi nodes with 512GB RAM while ESXi is installed on internal SD-Cards. The customer is planning to scale up…
ESXi 7.0 Update 1C VMware Tools Not Installing | LAB2PROD
February 2, 2021 ESXi 7.0 Update 1C VMware Tools Not Installing | LAB2PROD Workaround it like a champ! After upgrading to the latest build of ESXi, 7.0 Update 1c (VMware…
VSAN Support for DELLEMC BOSS Controller
Greetings, Great news from DELLEMC for VSAN users today ! I have encountered several limitations in VSAN designs using DELLEMC Poweredge servers where using PERC H730 controllers will enable you…
DELL PowerEdge ESXi Hosts: LLDP Not Working With Intel X710 10GB Cards
Recently I was engaged with a full vSphere migration for one of our customers (both hardware and software). We faced an issue getting Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) to work…
NSX-V Distributed Logical Router: With or Without Control VM?
Greetings, In this relatively short post, I will start with a brief introduction about NSX distributed logical router (DLR) and then I will delve into the main topic which I…