• Networkingwkstnet01
    Brandon LeeSeptember 20, 2016
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    Troubleshooting VMware Workstation Network connectivity

    Typically, I use VMware Workstation every day running work VMs and performing other testing.  I also troubleshoot VMware Workstation for other users as well.  From time to time, I have seen issues with VMware Workstation network connectivity either in Bridged…

  • Powershellpsresetfeat
    Brandon LeeSeptember 16, 2016
    0 5,933

    Reset unresponsive VM with Powershell PowerCLI

    I had a recent use case to be able to check the reachability of a certain VM which had shown itself to be problematic.  If the VM wasn’t responsive or had crashed, restarting the VM with a graceful restart via VMware…

  • Powershellgateway01
    Brandon LeeSeptember 12, 2016
    0 44,077

    Change Default Gateway with Powershell

    One of the best ways to automate or check network settings with modern Windows OS’es is to use Powershell. Recently, I had a really unique use case where the need arose to check the default gateway and flip the gateway from…

  • NSXnsxjumbo04
    Brandon LeeSeptember 9, 2016
    0 1,245

    Troubleshooting NSX VXLAN jumbo frames in nested lab

    In working recently in a nested VMware environment running three clusters and NSX, I ran into a jumbo frames issue with VXLAN connectivity across the clusters.  I was simulating different WAN/subnet environments using an Untangle appliance as a router in…

  • Networkingstackfeat
    Brandon LeeSeptember 2, 2016
    0 3,506

    Configure Dell Nseries switch stack

    A quick little how to post on creating a stack between Dell Nseries switches.  For the purposes of this post, the stack was created using (2) Dell Nseries 4032F 10G switches. There is just a small amount of configuration that…

  • Powershellmonitor01
    Brandon LeeSeptember 1, 2016
    0 1,181

    Monitor application pool IIS recycle if needed

    In working with an issue where an application pool was taking an entire website down, it became apparent we needed a programmatic way to monitor the site itself and then take proactive action in an automated way to correct the…

  • VMwarensxconerror01
    Brandon LeeSeptember 1, 2016
    0 935

    There was an error connecting to NSX manager API

    A quick issue I ran into yesterday connecting a restful API client to an NSX manager – “there was an error connecting”.  As I had connected to this manager before using an API client, I knew that it was accessible…

  • Powershellbypass01
    Brandon LeeAugust 31, 2016
    0 479

    Powershell script signing the easy way

    So I wanted to throw a quick blog post out there on Powershell script signing the easy way.  This is a little bit tongue and cheek on the post as I don’t want to detail how to sign powershell scripts…

  • VMwarenetworkgrey02
    Brandon LeeAugust 29, 2016
    0 20,257

    ESXi 6 Configure Management Network Greyed out

    The other day when playing around “rather hard” with distributed switches and NSX, I broke my distributed switch implementation on one of my lab ESXi 6 hosts.  I couldn’t ping the host, and also even worse, couldn’t get to the…

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