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…
The Unofficial VCF Troubleshooting Guide v2 | LAB2PROD
March 4, 2021 The Unofficial VCF Troubleshooting Guide v2 | LAB2PROD Getting past those annoying issues when administering VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) This is my unofficial VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)…
Did you add your vCenter to the NSX DFW exclusion list? Validate via Central CLI
Introduction Whenever you prepare a vSphere cluster in NSX, the distributed firewall is enabled automatically on all ESXi hosts in that cluster. One of these clusters can be your management…
Step-By-Step: Install and Configure NSX Manager 6.4.1
Introduction As NSX is driving the evolution of the next generation networking era, learning NSX is a must in my humble opinion. VMware does not consider NSX as a product…
Step-by-Step: Workload Migration to NSX-v Domain Preserving IP address Schema
With the IT transformation towards software defined data center (SDDC), and the wide adoption of software defined networking (SDN), most of current vSphere customers are considered as potential NSX ones,…
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…
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-T: Migrate VMKernel Ports from VSS/VDS to N-VDS
It has been a while I didn’t write any blog due to my short time handling multiple PSO projects with a lot of traveling. Today I am going to share…
NSX Application Platform Part 1: Environment Overview
January 4, 2022 NSX Application Platform Part 1: Environment Overview Lab Architecture, Resources, and Software This will be a four part blog series detailing the deployment of NSX Application Platform…
Delete a vSAN Datastore after a failed VCSA Bootstrap Installation
So, I was recently deploying vCenter server appliance VCSA 6.7 while bootstrapping the installation onto one of the ESXi hosts. I faced an issue with the VCSA installation which left…
Step-by-Step: Deploy and Configure VMware Cloud Director 10.3.1
It has been a while I didn’t have time to write due to my relocation with my family to Dubai with all what it means from starting a new life…
VCD 10.3.1: Cross-Cluster Workload Migration within the same elastic PVDC
I came into a scenario recently where we need to decommission a cluster from a provider PVDC where that cluster also contains workloads already provisioned by the customer through the…
ASUS NUC 14 Pro Review // Best Intel NUC for Home Lab?
The Intel NUC started the mini PC craze across the world several years ago and the NUC brand is still synonymous with performance-driven mini PCs. However, now with Intel no…
Mini Gaming PC that Home Labs // GMKtec Nucbox M7 Pro Review
We take a powerful little mini PC for a spin, the GMKtec Nucbox M7 Pro. This is an interesting little mini PC that packs a punch for both gaming, with…