Paul Bryant For those of you who know me you know I am an active person. I love being outdoors, climbing cliffs, and pushing myself. Also, pull ups are a key in my training program and the pull up bar makes up the majority of my core program. Over the years I’ve worn down my right shoulder … Read more
Have you ever been sitting there and your boss requests you create a custom dashboard for operations in vROPS? You go through building metrics, views, and the custom dashboard and now it is time to share the dashboard. This article is on a quick and easy way to share a dashboard you created with a … Read more
I find my personal key is understanding my weight gain, maintenance, and cutting macros and calorie count. I’ve read several articles over the years on this topic and adapted several techniques. I cannot stress this enough you need to eat to keep your metabolism boosted so when I list my cutting calorie intake that is … Read more
One of the custom views I like to create is the ability to see which VMs in my clusters have a mounted ISO file. There are many justified reasons to mount an ISO file via the CD-ROM on a virtual machine. However, this prevents the VM from being able to vMotion. This can impact things … Read more
There are plenty of articles out there on the benefit of drinking black coffee. I have noticed that drinking coffee (in moderation) can have a short term rise in my metabolism as well as increase energy so I feel less tired. I know this sounds crazy but I even feel like it gives me more … Read more
This is a continuation of my upgrade series I was requested to post. In an earlier article you saw how to upgrade your external vCenter from 6.5 to 6.7U3, which must be performed prior to upgrading your VxRail. I know many engineers who have been waiting for 6.7U3 to go GA prior to upgrading their … Read more
I always said if I were to start blogging it would be with the intent to help others. I began this blog as a tech blog related to solutions I work with daily. However, in 2019 I battled some health issues that caused me to weigh 240 pounds as far back as March. Since then … Read more
Recently, I upgraded my vCenter to 6.7 U3 and afterwards I wasn’t able to into my vCenter appliance via SSH and more surprisingly I wasn’t able to log into the VAMI. Resolution:Reboot of the vCenter Appliance Result:I was able to log into the VAMII went to Access > Edit > enable SSHI was then able … Read more
Recently, VMware released NSX-T 2.5 with a lot of new features and improvements I know everyone is wanting. I know being one of those people I had to upgrade NSX-T from 2.4.0 in my production environment to 2.5. This is my walk through of upgrading from 2.4.0 to 2.5.0. I must admit the upgrade assistant … Read more
I recently had the pleasure of upgrading one of my older environments running VMware vCenter 6.5 U2 to vCenter 6.7 U3 and thought i would share my experience. I know a lot of people who are planning for this upgrade by the end of the year so I hope this helps everyone out. If you … Read more
This past Friday was the annual Dallas Fort Worth UserCon where VMware people come together to share experiences, hear speakers, and connect. I particularly enjoy coming to VMUG events for all the new connections I am able to make. I was sharing a couple of my experiences with a great guy in Ariel Sanchez who … Read more
Apparently, people like blog articles on exam prep because I have been requested to write this article. I felt the VMConAWS exam was more than fair and straight forward. There aren’t any questions on the exam meant to stump the chump. I would say 6 months VMConAWS hands on experience & you should be more … Read more
I received a lot of feedback from my last certification exam review blog so I thought I would write one for my 6.7 vSAN Specialist. I will be the first to admit that I thought this exam was very straight forward and was truely testing your knowledge of vSAN. I will also admit I did … Read more
I know I am a terrible test taker. Point in fact, the only “exams” I recall being easy/best for me is when I would sit at a terminal and be given tasks to complete in a lab. Taking the educated guess that there are plenty of people like me in the world, I thought I … Read more
I just wanted to take a moment to write a quick article on some useful commands I use for troubleshooting NSX-T 2.4 By no means is this everything and I will update this article routinly. How to find VTEP (Tunnel End Points)From NSX Manager#get logical-switch vtep From ESXi Host to display TEP end point#esxcfg-vmnic -land#esxcli … Read more
As the journey continues we have now come to the portion where we setup the Edge. There are a couple different ways you can setup your edge, IE leverage Port Groups from a Distributed Switch or leverage NSX-T N-VDS switches. Do you deploy two Transport Zones or four? I have elected to deploy the edge … Read more
Part 4 of the journey takes us through deploying NSX-T on our ESXi Hosts. This will be a multi-step process and has some complexity but this piece can be a lot of fun. The work we do here will have a ripple effect as we move forward so it is important to know your use … Read more
At this point in my journey, we have our first NSX Manager deployed and verified. Along with the compute manager created. Next comes deploying the 2nd & 3rd Managers and form them into a cluster. Luckily, I like how NSX-T keeps getting easier so we’ll deploy this cluster from the UI instead of manually deploying an … Read more
As this journey continues the next step in deploying NSX-T 2.4 after deploying your first Manager is to add a new compute manager. This article will be a quick one because it is a quick and easy process. Woohoo! Other Articles in my serieshttps://digitalthoughtdisruption.com/2019/07/01/how-to-install-nsx-t-2-4-part-1-1st-nsx-manager/https://digitalthoughtdisruption.com/2019/07/03/how-to-install-nsx-t-2-4-part-2-deploy-compute-manger/https://digitalthoughtdisruption.com/2019/07/08/how-to-install-nsx-t-2-4-part-3-deploying-2nd-3rd-nsx-manager/https://digitalthoughtdisruption.com/2019/07/11/how-to-install-nsx-t-2-4-part-4-transport-zone-creation-uplink-profile-tep-ip-pool-configure-nsx-t-for-esxi/https://digitalthoughtdisruption.com/2019/07/15/how-to-install-nsx-t-2-4-part-5-the-war-that-was-setting-up-edge-vms-and-edge-cluster-on-n-vds/ Heads up:This is where having all the required ports open are … Read more
Recently, I have been getting a lot of requests for “advice” on how to re-deploy VxRail. Apparently, the 13G server line and older G-Series appliances still have a use when upgrading to 14G hardware. Lab environment for staging a like for like Production environment to test out code updates, POCs, and anything else you desire … Read more
