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…
Deploying VCF 4.2 Multi-Availability Zones (VIDEO) | LAB2PROD
VCF March 31, 2021 Deploying VCF 4.2 Multi-Availability Zones (VIDEO) | LAB2PROD Over the last few months I have had several clients deploy VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 4.0+. They all…
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…
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,…
Errors with VCF 4.2.1 Configuration Drift Bundle
August 3, 2021 Errors with VCF 4.2.1 Configuration Drift Bundle Precheck Failures Preventing Upgrades The Issue? “NSX-T Audit Check Failures” Ordinarily, upgrading VCF versions should be easy. Unfortunately, this isn’t…
Step-by-Step: VMware vRealize Automation 7.x to 7.5 Upgrade
Upgrading vRA solution has been always tricky as it is version dependent. Although the process is somehow similar, it may include less or more steps if you have a minimal…
VMware vRealize Automation 7.x: Dynamically Get Reservation Policies Drop Down Menu by User Context
The more VMware PSO engagements I work with, the more interesting use cases and requirements I gather from our customers which drive me to write and share for the sake…
VCF SDDC Manager Bundle Checksum Issue
August 27, 2021 VCF SDDC Manager Bundle Checksum Issue LcmException: bundle checksum does NOT match the manifest value The Issue? SDDC Manager Bundle Downloads Fail with the above issue When…
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…
Replace a Failed vSAN Diskgroup on a VCF Managed Node
September 9, 2021 Replace a Failed vSAN Diskgroup on a VCF Managed Node VCF Upgrade Workflow Description – Upgrade – ESX_HOST The Issue? SDDC Manager Upgrade Workflow Fails During the…
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 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 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 Edge Deletion Failed
November 6, 2021 NSX-T Edge Deletion Failed Manually Cleaning Up Orphaned Edge Nodes What? Cleaning Up Stale Edge Nodes from NSX-T Manager I recently ran into an issue where a…
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…