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…
SSL Termination: Securing Web Traffic with NSX-ALB | LAB2PROD
January 12, 2021 SSL Termination: Securing Web Traffic with NSX-ALB | LAB2PROD Leverage NSX-ALB to encrypt your data with SSL Termination! In this blog post we will cover the different…
10 Best WordPress Management Tools To Easily Manage Multiple Websites
If you’d prefer self-hosted WordPress management tools, MainWP is the most affordable tool (nothing beats free). It offers additional features via extensions, supports many popular WordPress plugins, and has good…
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…
How to Reorder WordPress Dashboard Menu Items
Start by navigating to your WordPress dashboard and clicking on “Plugins” in the left-hand menu, then select “Add New“, and use the search bar to find “Admin Menu Editor” by searching…
VMware vSAN & vSphere HA – Best Practices
In this post, we are going to demonstrate the best practices regarding vSphere HA configuration on a vSAN-enabled cluster. Configuration Order vSAN and vSphere HA must be configured in a…
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…
What is Fail2Ban with Setup & Configuration? (Detailed Guide)
Fail2Ban traditionally uses iptables or similar firewall backends to implement its banning actions. RunCloud handles all the firewall configurations automatically, ensuring Fail2Ban works perfectly with your server’s firewall setup.sudo systemctl reload fail2ban Final…
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…
Migration from Collapsed to Dedicated NSX Edge Cluster
In a recent PSO VMware NSX engagement with one of our customers, and as their new hardware arrived, they decided to make a migration of ESG edges and DLR control…
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…
Top 5 Home Lab Projects I tackled in 2024
In this video, we talk about my top 5 home lab projects that I have tackled in 2024. These projects have taken my home lab environment to the next level….
VMware NSX Edge Not resolving Syslog FQDN ? Configure DNS Client via REST API
Introduction Well, recently I was checking an issue for one of our customers, where NSX edges were not sending logs to their configured syslog server. I found the issue as…
VMware ECMP NSX Edges Dropping Packets? Check RPF & Firewall
Recently, I was checking an interesting issue for one of our customers. They are experiencing random packet dropping where users accessing their applications running on NSX environment are suffering from…
Step-by-Step: Generate vRealize Automation Certificate via CertGenVVD Tool
Introduction In order to centralize certificate management and unify the procedure of generation of certificates for VMware management components in the whole SDDC stack, the VMware Validated Design Certificate Generation…