As I started my cloud director (formerly vCloud director) journey, I am following a learn-by-doing approach as I want to set up my cloud director environment and blog about it while i am progressing and gaining more in depth knowledge…
So, I was recently deploying vCenter server appliance VCSA 6.7 while bootstrapping the installation onto one of the ESXi hosts. I faced an issue with the VCSA installation which left me with a vSAN datastore created on the target ESXi…
Introduction Network address translation (NAT) in NSX-T Data Center can be configured on Tier-0 and Tier-1 gateways. Different types of NAT rules can be configured: Source NAT (SNAT): Supported on Tier-0/Tier-1 gateways running in active-standby mode. Destination NAT (DNAT): Supported…
Recently I have been working with a NSX-T engagement in a customer environment where they have NSX-v for their production environment and they requested to implement NSX-T in their UAT environment to test NSX-T functionality prior to migrating the production…
I deployed a BCDR solution for one of our customers based on vSphere replication and Site Recovery manager 8.x so that they will be able to protect the workloads running in site A and recover them to site B should…
Recently I installed site recovery manager SRM version 8.2 for one of our customers where there is a requirement for all solutions to use a custom certificate signed by their internal CA authority. While installing SRM, I came into one…
It has been a while I didn’t write any blog due to my short time handling multiple PSO projects with a lot of traveling. Today I am going to share with you the procedure you can follow to migrate VMKernel…
One of the customer requirements I have been asked to do a couple of days ago is to filter the transit subnets from being re-distributed from the NSX-T domain to the upstream physical router. When you attach a tier-1 logical…
I was preparing for a NSX-v engagement recently where the customer was so curious about the redundancy of all integrated components with the NSX environment. They insisted to add all their 3 local DNS servers to the NSX manager. Normally,…
NSX-T 2.4.x manager is an appliance with 3 built-in roles: policy manager, manager, and controller. The management plane contains the policy and the manager roles. The central control plane includes the controller role. The NSX-T manager cluster is formed by…