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Day 2: VMware Center for Advanced Learning – Advanced Architecture Course
Day 1: VMware Center for Advanced Learning – Advanced Architecture Course Day 2 kicks off learning to whiteboard the Value Model: how to work with clients to list needs, outcomes, problems and correlate and prioritize them. Then we are into … Continue reading
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vSphere 6.5 iSCSI port binding
I was goofing around with my home lab and ran into an interesting tidbit regarding iSCSI port binding in 6.5. The documentation from VMware says: Browse to the host in the vSphere Web Client navigator. Click the Configure tab. Under Networking, click Virtual switches, and select … Continue reading
Day 1: VMware Center for Advanced Learning – Advanced Architecture Course
Every wish there was a 9-day/81-hour course to propel you down the road to being a VMware Architect? Wish no more. The VMware Center for Advanced Learning has gone live with a course intended to: Strengthen architectural & solution outcome skills in … Continue reading
Posted in Certification, Cloud, Computing, Network, Security, Virtualization, VMware 2 Comments
vSphere 6.x Observed IP range
Way back when I wrote about the “Observed IP Range” information reported for physical NICs in v5 hosts. I noted among other things that the field seems to be populated by a process that runs at boot time or when … Continue reading
NSX: Upgrading to 6.4.0 from 6.3.x with a Control VM HA IP configured
tl/dr: If you upgrade from NSX 6.3.x to 6.4.0 make sure you remove the Control VM HA IP if it is set. Note that I have checked this with DLR and UDLRs. So I wrote about this the other day … Continue reading
NSX 6.4 DLR HA changes
tl/dr: Enable HA during DLR deployment, don’t specify an HA IP address (if prompted), use a unique logical switch for HA. Edits: Some info from VMware below. Also, if you are upgrading from 6.3 I would remove the HA IP … Continue reading
VMware on AWS Quick Hits
vSphere plus SDDC Manager (VMware Cloud Foundation) plus NSX-V hosted on bare-metal at AWS. VMware manages hardware account and bills you (separate from any AWS account you have) 4 nodes to start – each 2 socket/36 core, 512GB RAM, … Continue reading
VMware AppDefense Quick Hits
Brought to you by the NSBU at VMware, home of NSX-V, NSX-T, VRNI. Cloud-based with a local “proxy” (assuming local need). Developer-focuses with tie-ins to development stream to track changes. Supports Windows 2012, 2012R2, 2016 with *nix support coming. Loads … Continue reading
VMware NSX-T Quick Hits
NSX-T(ransformers) is a multi-hypervisor (ESX/KVM) cousin of NSX-V. Same SKU (if you own NSX-V 6.x, you own NSX-T 2.x). One NSX-T Manager can have multiple vCenters as “Compute endpoints” Standalone HTML5 client (not WebClient) NSX-T Edges can be VMs or … Continue reading
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Migrate VMs between portgroups/virtual switches/vSS/vDS
I wrote this to help a client migrate to VXLAN from portgroups. It pulls from a CSV file named c:\scripts\ImportPortGroups.csv which is structured: VLAN,PortGroup,wire 123,dVLAN 123,192.168.123.0/24 and accepts the initial number (VLAN) as a commandline parameter such as: changeportgroups 123 … Continue reading
Posted in NSX, PowerShell, Scripting, Virtualization, VMware Tagged migration, NSX, powercli, vSphere Leave a comment
