Virtualization
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What Is VMware Service-Defined Firewall Released?
Security is perhaps one of the most talked about and exciting areas of IT operations today as it is constantly evolving and making use of new technologies to stop the “bad guys” from compromising business-critical systems and data. With the…
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NSX-T 2.4 Invalid Host Type or Host Not Supported Error
As the last few posts have indicated, I have been having lots of fun with NSX-T 2.4 in the lab. NSX-T 2.4 has tremendous new benefits and features that bring great new functionality to the table. In the last post,…
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NSX-T 2.4 Compute Manager is Already Registered with Other NSX Manager Error
In working in the lab with the new release of NSX Data Center 2.4 for the past few days, I have ran into a few little issues that are worth posting and sharing with others. Some of these are ones…
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Install VMware NSX-T 2.4 Manager Controller Combined Appliance
The VMware community has been abuzz over the past couple or three days at the time of this writing with the release of VMware NSX-T Data Center 2.4. This is a huge release that has everyone talking about the new…
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VMware NSX-T Data Center 2.4 Released New Features
There is much excitement in the world of software-defined networking. VMware’s NSX product has gained tremendous momentum over the past couple of years especially and there is a lot of work and development that has been going into extending the…
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VMware vSphere VCSA 6.5 to VCSA 6.7 Postgres Upgrade Error Fix
A couple of days ago in a production environment, I ran into an issue upgrading an existing VCSA 6.5 appliance to a VCSA 6.7 appliance. Stage 1 of the upgrade process with the appliance deployment was going fine, however, with…
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Configure NSX-T Manager Network from Command Line
Today I will be posting a quick tip that I hope may help others who have done the same thing that I did – buzz quickly through deploying an NSX-T Manager appliance without correctly setting DNS, NTP, or search order…
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Troubleshooting vSAN Performance in Five Steps
Software-defined solutions such as software-defined networking and storage have revolutionized the world of virtualization. Abstracting these core areas of architecture away from the actual physical hardware allows robust features and agility that simply can’t be achieved with a hardware-only solution.…
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VMware vROPs 7 Error Adapter Instance Configured to Trust Multiple Certificates
Recently in the home lab, in working with vROPs 7 (vRealize Operations Manager) I had attempted to reestablish a connection to vCenter Server since I had swapped out vCenter VCSA appliances in the environment. I knew I needed to reconnect…
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Run Basic Network Speed Bandwidth Throughput Test Between ESXi Hosts
Running tests before putting ESXi hosts into production is a very good idea as you can often flush out problems before hosts go into production which is much easier to remediate than after they are placed into production and you…
