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…
Best Backup Solution You Haven’t Heard About!
If you are looking for a great backup solution that can protect modern workloads both in the home lab and in production environments, I am going to introduce you guys…
Broadcom Hates Their Customers, Part 24; Apple’s M4 Mac Mini is a BEAST – Talking Heads Ep.359
Wallets, Coffee Tumblers, Pint Glasses and more available at https://craftcomputing.store Welcome to Talking Heads, your once weekly show about everything happening in the world of tech, computers, gaming, craft beer…
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…
NSX Application Platform Part 2: Harbor Image Registry
January 5, 2022 NSX Application Platform Part 2: Harbor Image Registry Harbor Image Registry Configuration The Harbor image registry is critical to the successful deployment of the NSX Application Platform…
VMware Cloud Director 10.x Integration with vCenter 7.x and NSX-T 3.x
VMware Cloud Director as a cloud management platform (CMP) offers true multi-tenancy where each customer has a self-service tenant portal that will be used to provision workloads and other services….
VMware Cloud Director 10.x: Org and OrgVDC Creation
An organization is the fundamental vCloud director grouping that contains users, vApps that they create, and the resources that the vApps use. An organization is the top-level container in a…
NSX Application Platform Part 3: NSX-T, NSX-ALB (Avi), and Tanzu
January 5, 2022 NSX Application Platform Part 3: NSX-T, NSX-ALB (Avi), and Tanzu NSX-T Logical Networking, Ingress, Load balancing, and Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service (TKGS) This article will elaborate on…
VMware Cloud Director 10.1.1 – One or more VC/NSXs have been detected to be disconnected
As I already deployed cloud director 10.1.1 and integrated it with vCenter 7.0 and NSX-T 3.0. Things were working as expected and vCenter connection status was successful and connected until…
The end of VMUG Advantage is the end of VMware
On November 5th, 2024, Broadcom announced that #VMUG Advantage would be forever changed. Starting November 30th, VMUG Advantage, a much loved and crucial component to the VMUG community, will be…
Cloud Director 10.x: vApp Guest OS Customization Greyed Out at Catalog Level
One of the latest things I tried to do recently in my VMware cloud director environment is to create a shared catalog with some imported vCenter OS templates to be…