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…
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…
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…
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…
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…