How to Downsize your Home Lab
Discover the best ways to downsize your home lab and optimize power efficiency without sacrificing functionality.
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vSAN HCI or vSAN Max – Which Deployment Option…
vSAN HCI or vSAN Max – Which Deployment Option…
Which deployment option in vSAN is best for your environment? Read on to learn more on how to determine whether you should use vSAN HCI, or vSAN Max.
Restore ESXi network connectivity after you…
Restore ESXi network connectivity after you…
Ok another booboo for the books 🙂 . After several troubleshooting attempts I wasn’t able to restore my vCenter. At that time I kind had it, and in a moment of frustration, I deleted my vCenter without thinking to much about it. Now if you have distributed switches, like me, you automatically […]
VMware Cloud Director 10.5.x Certificate…
VMware Cloud Director 10.5.x Certificate…
Today’s topic is about managing certificates for VMware Cloud Director. Well, you’ve come to the right place! In this blog post, we’ll walk you through the step-by-step process of changing certificates for VMware Cloud Director 10.5.x. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or a newbie in the […]
How-to: Secure Public IPs in Azure & Set up…
How-to: Secure Public IPs in Azure & Set up…
In this video I walk through how to request a Public IP from the Azure portal and how to set up SNAT, NO-SNAT and DNAT rules in NSX-T.
How to stop vCLS VMs from running on a vSphere…
How to stop vCLS VMs from running on a vSphere…
I’ve had this question twice in about a week, which means that it is time to write a quick post. How do you stop vCLS VMs from running on a vSphere HA Failover Host? For those who don’t know, a vSphere HA Failover Host is a host which is used when a failure has occurred […]
Automated VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) host…
Automated VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) host…
ESXi Scripted Installation (Kickstart) has been my go-to method for achieving zero-touch provisioning of ESXi hosts at scale, which I had started using back in the ESX 2.5 days when I was a customer! Having worked at some very larger enterprises, I got the opportunity to experience and manage […]
Custom ESXi “Dummy” Reboot VIB for vSphere…
Custom ESXi “Dummy” Reboot VIB for vSphere…
A few weeks back, I had a request from one of our Technical Adoption Managers (TAM) that their customer wanted to create a custom ESXi VIB that could be used with vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) and would only require the ESXi host to reboot as part of the remediation. This might sound like […]
Dynamic ESXi firewall rulset for non-standard…
Dynamic ESXi firewall rulset for non-standard…
For most users who configure syslog for their ESXi hosts (hopefully everyone is doing that for audit, compliance and troubleshooting purposes), they typically stick with the default syslog ports 514 for UDP/TCP or 1415 for TLS. A huge benefit of using the default syslog ports is that the ESXi […]
VMware vSAN 8 Express Storage Architecture…
VMware vSAN 8 Express Storage Architecture…
I need more and more and …….!!! – The ever-growing demand of Business-Critical workloads especially Oracle workloads where CPU, Memory & IO intensive operations drives critical business transactions to achieve business SLA’ and targets in a timely fashion. Enabling, sustaining, and ensuring the [..]