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FTF 006: VMware NSX and not prepared or not licensed clusters
Today my customer contacted me that they had problems with connectivity between two VMs connected to the same port group based on VXLAN. Quick tests done during call confirmed that there was a problem...
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FTF 007: How to change ESXi hostname when NSX is configured on a cluster?
Some weeks ago my customer wanted to change ESXi hostnames. This is not difficult and can be done without VM downtime using the below steps: Place ESXi host into maintenance mode Remove the host from...
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FTF 008: How to enumerate change NSX Logical Switch VNI?
Recently I needed to prepare a procedure to reconfigure NSX environments and one of the tasks was changing NSX Logical Switch VNI (VXLAN Network Identifier). When you create a new Logical Switch, NSX...
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FTF 009: Cross-vCenter NSX - reorganizing
Recently I have had a task to reorganize NSX Cross vCenter domains - Primary and Secondary environments. My customer had eight vCenter with NSX - four pairs of Primary and Secondary. As you probably...
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vCenter (VCSA) on vSAN or local disks?
Recently I had an interesting discussion with my customer about vCenter (already VCSA) location that is not dependent on the central storage system (array) but prepared for high availability and...
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FTF 003: VMware NSX - Hosts with Error status
A couple of days ago I had a small problem with NSX and firewall rules that did not work properly. During checking NSX Status via Web Client I found - Error status on Distributed Firewall (DFW) status...
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Deep visibility of cloud by Gigamon
A couple months ago I had a pleasure and honor to attend at the Cloud Field Day 2. One of presenting companies was Gigamon which showed their solutions for public/hybrid cloud. Gigamon was founded in...
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What's new and how to one click upgrade to NSX 6.4.x ?
This month VMware released NSX 6.4.0. This version provides many features, improvements and bug fixes. What's new in NSX 6.4.0? Following Release Notes we can find some interesting features and...
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HPE - InfoSight and Cloud Volumes
Last year I had a pleasure and honor to attend at the Cloud Field Day 2. During this event, HPE presented two solutions: InfoSight and Cloud Volumes. HPE InfoSight InfoSight is a solution taken from...
View ArticleFTF 004: VMware NSX - The Upgrade Version operation failed
Recently during updating one of NSX environment from version 6.3.3 to 6.3.5 I faced the following error: The Upgrade Version operation failed for the entity with the following message....
View ArticleFTF 005: Replacing default vSphere 6.x certificates with CA signed SSL - my tips
Recently I have done some projects where replacing default vSphere certificates with CA signed SSL was required. I think some of you remember how managing certificates were hard in prior vSphere...
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A simplified upgrades - my summary of last VMware's releases
Some weeks ago VMware released NSX version 6.4 which introduced an Upgrade Coordinator - a single portal to simplify the planning and execution of an NSX upgrade. We should expect further steps to make...
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Integration PowerChute Network Shutdown with VMware
Recently during checking news on VMware Solutions Exchange page, I found that useful info is available there PowerChute Network Shutdown v4.3 for VMware. This software supports the graceful shutdown...
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Veritas Resiliency Platform (VRP) - a DR solution
Nowadays, disaster recovery is an important thing in every company. Heterogeneous environments and applications based on virtual, physical or cloud components bring an additional opportunity to create...
View ArticleFTF 010: How to change IPs on infrastructure when NSX is installed?
Yesterday we needed to re-address VMware environment - Management, vMotion and VXLAN. This is not a complex task until you have NSX installed in your datacenter. NSX VXLAN addresses reorganization...
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FTF 011: vSAN and mixed storage policies
This post is a feature request for vSAN One of my customers has a 4-nodes vSAN all-flash cluster. They use compression, deduplication and RAID 5 for non-critical VMs/vmdk and RAID 1 for critical. RAID...
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What's new in Zerto 8.0
Zerto founded in 2009 is a company that I faced the first time around 2012. The company is known because of their Zerto IT Resilience Platform which providing disaster recovery, data protection for...
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New features with NSX-T 3.0 - Federation and Kubernetes on vSphere
VMware released NSX-T 3.0 today with some interesting features. In my opinon, the most important are below: Modern Apps Networking: NSX-T for vSphere with Kubernetes, container networking and security...
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FTF 012: Resource Pools in practice
A Resource Pool (RP) is a powerful but also danger tool when used not properly. RPs are not folders! and they require the correct design phase. Some years ago, I wrote an article on basics and please...
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FTF 013: Update NSX-T module on ESXi hosts
Last week I needed to do an update of NSX-T 3.0 to 3.0.2. The update process is simple and straightforward but I faced a small issue. When I wanted to do the update of ESXi hosts I received the...
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