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…
NSX Application Platform Part 4: Deploying the Application Platform
January 7, 2022 NSX Application Platform Part 4: Deploying the Application Platform Completing the NSX Application Platform (NAPP) Deployment The previous articles covered the foundation required to deploy NAPP. This…
Step-By-Step: Upgrade a Multi-Cell Cloud Director From 10.1 to 10.2
VMware Cloud Director 10.2 is generally available now with a lot of enhancements and features such as full use of NSX-T and delivering self-service functionality in Edge firewall and IP…
NSX-T 3.x Certificate Replacement Series – Part1: Configure MS CA Server
As I received multiple requests about how-to steps needed for NSX-T manager cluster certificate replacement, I decided to write a 3-parts series to clarify and illustrate the complete step-by-step procedure…
Step-by-Step: Deploy and Configure VMware Cloud Director 10.3.1
It has been a while I didn’t have time to write due to my relocation with my family to Dubai with all what it means from starting a new life…
VMware Cloud Director 10.3.1: Publishing & Subscribing to a Catalog
Most of service providers infrastructures have multiple Cloud Director instances running in multiple availability zones for availability requirements. In such case, managing multiple catalogs manually and keeping them all synchronized…
NSX-T 3.x – Configuring VRF Lite
In this post, I am going to demonstrate how NSX-T helps isolate routing domains by configuring NSX-T 3.x VRF lite. Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) is a routing technology that…
NSX-T: Deterministic Traffic on VLAN-backed Segments?
May 18, 2022 NSX-T: Deterministic Traffic on VLAN-backed Segments? Can data on VLAN-Backed Segments be deterministic? The ask? A few weeks ago, a fellow VMware enthusiast reached out to me…
NSX-T 3.2.x Manager – Sizing matters
In this post I just want to share with the community our experience with one issue that we faced recently in one of the new NSX-T projects that our team…
VCF – Delete Domain Failed
June 8, 2022 VCF – Delete Domain Failed Delete Domain Workflow Fails The Issue – Delete Domain Workflow Failed? Deleting a Workload Domain in SDDC Manager may result in the…
Broadcom finally listened on licensing // vSphere Standard and vSphere Enterprise Plus licenses back
Today, major news dropped from Broadcom with the expansion of the VMware Cloud Foundation portfolio of products. It seems that Broadom has finally listened to customers on VMware licensing to…
ASUS NUC 14 Pro Review // Best Intel NUC for Home Lab?
The Intel NUC started the mini PC craze across the world several years ago and the NUC brand is still synonymous with performance-driven mini PCs. However, now with Intel no…
VergeOS Might Be The VMware Alternative You’ve Been Looking For!
VergeIO and its UCI stack, #VergeOS, might not be familiar names to those in the world of enterprise virtualization, but their compelling virtualization stack has some pretty compelling reasons why…
Mini Gaming PC that Home Labs // GMKtec Nucbox M7 Pro Review
We take a powerful little mini PC for a spin, the GMKtec Nucbox M7 Pro. This is an interesting little mini PC that packs a punch for both gaming, with…