The Tunnel endpoint (TEP) enables Transport nodes to participate in an NSX-T overlay. The NSX-T overlay deploys a Layer 2 network on top of an existing Layer 3 network fabric by encapsulating frames inside packets and transferring the packets over an underlying transport network. The underlying transport network can be another Layer 2 network, or … Explore: How to Create TEP IP Pool VMware NSX-T…
Whether part of a fresh installation or continue growth and expansion of an existing environment, transport zones will need to be created. Transport zones dictate which hosts and, therefore, which VMs can participate in the use of a particular network. A transport zone does this by limiting the hosts that can “see” a segment—and, therefore, … Explore: How to Create Transport Zone in VMware NSX-T…
Have you ever found yourself in a position where you never saved your license key in windows 10 and needed it? It just happened to me recently so here is a quick and easy way to accomplish. Click on the windows key CmdRight click on Command Prompt and select run as administrator $ wmic path … Explore: How to find Windows 10 License Key
It is hard to believe that NSX-T is now three years old and what an incredible three years has it been. Being a former global enterprise architect for a couple companies that deployed NSX-T, I have had the privilege of watching this solution grow. Every year there feels like there is a new acquisition or … Explore: VMware NSX-T Advanced Threat Prevention Announcements at VMworld…
This page began as my notes from VMworld 2020. The central idea survived: a perimeter firewall cannot govern all of the lateral traffic moving among applications, infrastructure services, containers, and data platforms. What changed is the architecture around that idea. NSX-T became VMware NSX, networking moved deeper into the VMware Cloud Foundation operating model, and … Explore: VMware NSX in the Modern Data Center: From…
Now that I have my new 7.0 vCenter stood up in my solution center I figured it was time to add in the datacenter and my management cluster. Since I’m playing around in 7.0 I thought I would give the cluster quickstart method a try. Step by step process Right click on the vCenter name … Explore: Deploy VMware Datacenter, Cluster, & Hosts 7.0 Quickstart
It has been a while since I’ve posted a how to article. I’m in the process of building a new solution center and figured why not update my how to install VCSA with a fresh 7.0.0c. As always, plan ahead to avoid long delays for issues that could have been planned around or avoided. Download … Explore: How to Install & Deploy vCenter Server Appliance…
Recently, I had to upgrade my existing VMware 6.7 U3 VCSA to the new 7.0 VCSA. 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. Prerequisites Need temp FQDN & IP with valid DNS registration for deployment process, will … Explore: Upgrade vCenter (VCSA) 6.7 U3 to 7.0.0c
In the last few years as a VMWare person I have watched containers and Kubernetes go from people saying containers cannot replace virtual machines to now Kubernetes being integrated into vSphere. Years ago, I thought containers were really cool but it lacked all the infrastructure features we relied on to run in enterprise environments. Yet, … Explore: The Rise of the VMWare Platform Reliability Engineer
As I’m sure many of you are aware VxRail Manager is only responsible for the virtual distributed switch it creates at install. What about any additional vDS that you create? You are 100% responsible for their upgrade and management. It doesn’t sound so bad right? How often do we actually interact with a vDS? Here … Explore: Post RASR Reset of VxRail 4.7 Host Re-Add…
Have you ever been working with DellEMC VxRail support and they ask you to generate a VxRail log bundle or you get that generic reply from creating an R that requests logs? I thought I would take a quick moment and show everyone the quick and painless way to generate a quick log bundle in … Explore: Generate VxRail 4.7 log bundle in vCenter 6.7
I was recently asked by someone new to VMWare what is the quickest way to generate a log bundle that VMWare is asking for. I thought I would take the amount of time to generate a log bundle to write this article. Navigate to the top bar in vCenter and right click on your vCenter … Explore: Generate Log Bundle for VMWare vCenter 6.7 and…
Have you ever been trying to vMotion a VMWare virtual machine but get an error that prevents you because the VM is attempting to install VMWare Tools? Has this ever occurred when trying to put a host into Maintenance Mode? Are you looking for a quick way to vMotion the VM? Below I have the … Explore: VMWare Virtual Machine can’t migrate / vMotion because…
Every year I weigh the pains of travel vs the networking and knowledge gains of attending VMWorld. Majority of the time the pain doesn’t outweigh the benefits. However, due to COVID-19 VMWare will be making VMWorld virtual this year. I must admit this may get me to attend VMWorld for the first time in three … Explore: VMWare’s VMWorld will be week of Sept. 28…
As many of you are aware VMware recently came out with a CVE: CVE-2020-3952 that requires taking your existing VMWare vCenter to 6.7 U3f or 7.0. Since going from 6.7 to 7.0 requires a re-deploy of the vCenter I thought doing an in place upgrade would be the quickest way to fix this security vulnerability. … Explore: Upgrade VMWare vCenter 6.7 U1 U2 U3 to…
VMWare just posted this advisory:https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0006.html vCenters affected:vCenter Server 6.7 (embedded or external PSC) prior to 6.7u3f is affected by CVE-2020-3952. Only if it was upgraded from previous versions 6.0 or 6.5. Clean installations of vCenter Server 6.7 (embedded or external PSC) are not affected. KB to determine if your vCenter is affected:https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/78543 Resolution:Upgrade to 6.7U3f … Explore: Advisory Severity Critical VMware vCenter Server updates address…
Legacy example — originally published April 10, 2020. The command later in this article sets the clock to a date in 2020. Do not run that example unchanged. Check your installed ESXi release and approved time-synchronization design before making a clock change. Broadcom’s time-synchronization guidance uses UTC for ESXi manual time settings and points to … Explore: ESXCLI to Check & Change Time on VMWare…
Recently while working in my environment I uncovered a known issue and a KB article with a resolution and work around. Here is a step by step of the applied work around. I applied the immediate work around to avoid a vCenter crash, which is never a good thing. Error:Alarm ‘Host hardware sensor state’ on … Explore: Excessive Hardware health alarms being triggered for “Sensor…
In the past I have spoken about needing to remove mounted ISOs from VMs prior to a VxRail upgrade. I have had many people DM me asking if I use a script or do it manually. First, it would only be possible in a small environment to manually remove mounted ISO files or in environments … Explore: Powershell / PowerCLI Script to List & Unmount…
Have you ever been writing a PowerShell or PowerCLI script and wished you could see what would happen if you executed the script just to confirm everything is working properly? Have you ever been been performing single commands that modify the environment and you want to ensure the mod you want is the one applied? … Explore: Leveraging -WhatIf command in PowerShell & PowerCLI Scripts
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