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Prerequisites The VMs must be hosted on hypervisors that have been added to the NSX-T Data Center fabric. The fabric nodes must have NSX-T Data Center management plane (MPA) and NSX-T Data Center control…
When I first tackled NSX-T, like many, I was concerned about IO/Packet flow. Based on feeding my own curiosity while preparing my production environment for NSX-T I decided to write this article. Below you…
It feels like I cannot go a week without being asked the question of, “What is my real capacity on vSAN/VxRail?” Followed by we just cannot get our capacity planning correct and we are…
NSX-T Manager Controller provides the graphical user interface (GUI) and the RESTful API for creating, configuring, and monitoring NSX-T components, such as logical switches. NSX-T Manager Controller implements the management plane for the NSX-T…
This is my fourth and final installment of this series. These steps were taken by me to failover and failback multi-million dollar datacenters in as easy as 4-clicks. At this point we should have…
Recently, I have been getting a lot of questions around how to build vSAN for high performing workloads. This article is intended to cover hardware differences, slack space, what is vSAN namespace, object, component,…
I wanted to cover real quick creating a custom storage policy on vSAN, which even on a VxRail is done in vCenter. House keeping items:Raid 1 mirror is where you write a complete replica…
In my previous article I showed everyone how to install the latest vCenter 6.5 U2d. Now I will show how to upgrade your existing vCenter to 6.5 U2b and why created new vCenter’s with…
As we are all aware vCenter is at the heart of our vSphere environments. Whether deploying a lab or a net new datacenter with vSAN/VxRail, you will require a new vCenter. Before I begin,…
This is the third installment of my ongoing series on DRaaS. We have have by now installed VR/Site Recovery Manager, configured site pairings, and configured onprem and SDDC mappings. Now it is time to…
Each AWS Region supports the infrastructure and services for a given geography. Within each Region, Amazon builds isolated and redundant islands of infrastructure called Availability Zones (AZ). With VMware Cloud on AWS, ESXi hosts…
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