NSX-T – Deploying Tier-0 (T0) Router
One of the things I like about NSX-T is the ability to deploy Tier-1 and Tier-0 routers. The T0 is the gateway that bridges the virtual world to the physical world. Below you will…
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VxRail PTAgent Troubleshooting – Device Missing State
From time to time you may encounter an error where your VxRail node goes into a device missing state in VxRail manager but is operating normally in vCenter. The main culprit behind this is…
VxRail 4.7 RASR Factory Reset: Preparation, Steps, and Recovery
Prepare and perform a VxRail 4.7 RASR factory reset with data-loss warnings, prerequisites, legacy boot steps, troubleshooting, and post-reset recovery checks.
How to remove a VxRail 4.7 Node from it’s Cluster
There are instances where you may need to remove a node from your VxRail cluster. One instance may be moving the host from one cluster to another (ensure host is at same code level…
Deploying a Domain in NSX-T
As I continue my blogging series on deploying NSX-T 2.4 in your environment, my next topic will be Domains. This will be a quick blog as there is not a lot about setting up…
NSX-T Applying Micro-Segmentation with Tags
Many asked so here it is. A how to guide on leveraging Tags and Security Groups to apply Firewall Policies/Rules to groups of VMs. My main goal for this article is to simplify a…
Deploying NAT Services on NSX-T
There may be instances when you want to leverage NSX-T for NAT services and not an external NAT services. Thanks to the simplified management of NSX-T deploying these services is easy. Terms:Source NAT (SNAT):…
Useful Ruby Shell vSAN Commands
Lately, I have had people messaging asking to help them troubleshoot their environment. Everything from random performance impacts to my SQL DBA says I have a disk IO issue. I thought I would take…
Four Benefits of NSX-T Not Named Micro-Segmentation
Over the past couple years I hear the term Micro-Segmentation over and over and over and over again as the benefit of NSX & software defined networking. I thought I would take a moment…
NSX-T 2.4 Release & What’s New
I wanted to take a moment and provide a link to the new feature release of NSX-T 2.4. This has been a major release with a re-architecture of the NSX-T components. Some feature highlightsCombining…
Create a vSphere Distributed Switch and Port Groups
Quick answer: distributed switch versus port group A vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS) is the datacenter-level switch configuration that vCenter Server applies consistently across multiple ESXi hosts. A distributed port group is a policy-defined set…
Migration from NSX-V to NSX-T
VMware has just released a new document to perform a migration from NSX-V to NSX-T leveraging the NSX-T Datacenter Migration Coordinator. Click to access nsxt_24_migrate.pdf Happy reading.