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…
The 8 Best Cloudflare CDN Alternatives in 2024
Developers and technically inclined users who value customization, performance optimization, and developer-friendly tools may prefer Fastly or KeyCDN as Cloudflare alternatives. These providers offer more granular control, advanced features, and…
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…
Best Windows Monitoring: Netdata 2.0 Native Windows Agent
We take a look at the new native Windows monitoring found in Netdata. It is one of the easiest solutions you can choose to start monitoring your environment quickly, now…
Deploy NSX-T Edge Clusters using SDDC Manager API
September 21, 2021 Deploy NSX-T Edge Clusters using SDDC Manager API A quicker way to deploy multiple clusters What? Utilize SDDC Manager’s API to deploy NSX-T Edge Clusters I decided…
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…
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-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…
SRM 8.2: Failed to Validate Custom Certificate – Certificate Host Name Mismatch
Recently I installed site recovery manager SRM version 8.2 for one of our customers where there is a requirement for all solutions to use a custom certificate signed by their…
SRM 8.2: Failed to retrieve pairs from extension server at https://SRM-FQDN:9086/vcdr/vmomi/sdk
I deployed a BCDR solution for one of our customers based on vSphere replication and Site Recovery manager 8.x so that they will be able to protect the workloads running…
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…
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…
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…
Create Geneve-Backed Provider VDC in Cloud Director 10.x
VMware Cloud Director enables cloud providers to build secure, multi-tenant clouds by pooling virtual infrastructure resources into virtual data centers. Cloud Director introduces the virtual infrastructure resources to users through…