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…
Christmas Gift – VSAN Essentials 6.2 Available for Free
Recently I was engaged in multiple VSAN deployments, I have read multiple references like “VMware vSAN Design and Sizing Guide 6.6” and “VMware VSAN Network Design” but I always wanted…
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…
vExpert 2018 Applications are Now Open
Applications for the 2018 vExpert program are now open. Applications will be accepted until January 19th at midnight PDT. The vExpert 2018 announcement will be on February 16th 2018. The…
Multisite Deployment of NSX-T Data Center Part 1| LAB2PROD
September 18, 2020 Multisite Deployment of NSX-T Data Center Part 1| LAB2PROD NSX-T Active-Active Multisite in a Single Region and Failover to a Secondary Region Part 1. A client required…
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…
Step-by-Step NSX-V Upgrade from 6.3.4 to 6.3.5
Recently, I was engaged in a NSX deployment where we installed NSX for vSphere v6.3.4. However, couple of days later, VMware highlighted that there is a critical bug with this…
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…
VMware vSAN Stretched Cluster Failure Scenarios
Introduced in vSAN 6.1, stretched clusters can be used in environments where disaster and downtime avoidance is a key requirement. It protects virtual machines across data centers, not just racks….
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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…
NSX-T Transport VLANs and Inter TEP Communication | LAB2PROD
November 15, 2020 NSX-T Transport VLANs and Inter TEP Communication | LAB2PROD Inter TEP Communication, Sharing Transport VLANs: Unpacking One of The Latest Features In NSX-T 3.1 This post will…
vExpert 2018 Award Announcement
Finally, VMware announced the list of vExperts for 2018 on the 9th of March. For me as a first timer, I was really honored and delighted to join such a…
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…