Reading Time: < 1 minute Knowledge increases by sharing it… For various reasons you may need to get the NSX-T Manager’s thumbprint and Node UUID, e.g. joining the NSX EDGE VM to the management plane or for use in your automation scripts. This blog is another “quick tip” on how to
Quick Tip: Enable/Disable a service e.g. SSH/SNMP to persist on NSX-T EDGE VM reboots
Reading Time: < 1 minute Knowledge increases by sharing it… This blog is a quick tip, on how to enable/disable a service e.g. SSH on NSX-T EDGE VM. Unlike NSX-V Edge Service Gateway which lets you enable SSH from the UI, for NSX-T EDGE VM you need to enable it from
NSX-V Site Failover/Failback Plan: Part 3
Reading Time: 4 minutes Knowledge increases by sharing it… This blog is a continuation of the “Planned” or “Unplanned” failover of NSX-V components i.e. NSX Manager, controllers, universal distributed logical routers in an Active/Passive datacentre scenario i.e. all North/South routing flow via one site’s ESG(s). Just to reverberate, I have
NSX-V Site Failover/Failback Plan: Part 2
Reading Time: 3 minutes Knowledge increases by sharing it… This blog is a continuation of the “Planned” or “Unplanned” failover of NSX-V components i.e. NSX Manager, controllers, universal distributed logical routers in an Active/Passive datacentre scenario i.e. all North/South routing flow via one site’s ESG(s). Just to reverberate, I have
NSX-V Site Failover/Failback Plan: Part 1
Reading Time: 4 minutes Knowledge increases by sharing it… With NSX-T gaining traction this year, NSX-V is still widely used by many organisations. The question of “NSX-V site failover plan” came up twice in the last week, which encouraged me to write this blog. In fact – I have this
Passthrough enabled PCI Graphic Card, reports problems (Code 43) in “Windows OS” guest VM
Reading Time: 2 minutes Knowledge increases by sharing it… As the title states, this blog is about the passthrough enabled PCI Graphic Card, which reports problems inside a “Windows OS” guest Virtual Machine. Use case: The PCI device, in my case is a “NVIDIA GTX 1080 TI” graphic card. Hypervisor:
PCI Passthrough – “Module ‘DevicePowerOn’ power on failed”
Reading Time: 2 minutes Knowledge increases by sharing it… Slightly deviating from the NSX focus, thought I should share this resolve, to help the wider community. Use case: The PCI device in my case is a NVIDIA GTX 1080 TI graphic card. ESXi 6.7 U2 After, you configure PCI Device
Preparing the vSphere Infrastructure for NSX-T v2.4 Install/Upgrade
Reading Time: 2 minutes Knowledge increases by sharing it… Every few months, new versions of products are released, and every product has its own interoperability with other products, due to new features being added and code updates. What the new versions bring with themselves, is a chain of pre-requisites to
Update vCenter v6.5 U1 to v6.5 U2 via VAMI – EULA “Accept” button greyed out
Reading Time: 2 minutes Knowledge increases by sharing it… In my previous blog post here, I shared one of the challenges to update vCenter v6.5 to v6.5 U2 in order to prepare the environment for NSX-T v2.4. To know more about the preparation follow the link below:Preparing the vSphere Infrastructure
Unable to update vCenter Server Appliance from 6.5 to 6.5U2 via VAMI
Reading Time: 4 minutes Knowledge increases by sharing it… It has been a while, vCenter 6.7 has been released and is what I have been using “primarily” for my home lab along with other versions of compatible VMware products. With the release of NSX-T v2.4 and its specific version interoperability,