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VMware NSX Edge Not resolving Syslog FQDN ? Configure DNS Client via REST API

  • Posted on June 20, 2018June 20, 2018
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

Introduction Well, recently I was checking an issue for one of our customers, where NSX edges were not sending logs to their configured syslog server. I found the issue as interesting and decided to write a blog about it to…

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Step-By-Step: Install and Configure NSX Manager 6.4.1

  • Posted on June 12, 2018June 12, 2018
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

Introduction As NSX is driving the evolution of the next generation networking era, learning NSX is a must in my humble opinion. VMware does not consider NSX as a product anymore, rather it is a platform with a rich set…

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Did you add your vCenter to the NSX DFW exclusion list? Validate via Central CLI

  • Posted on June 10, 2018June 10, 2018
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

Introduction Whenever you prepare a vSphere cluster in NSX, the distributed firewall is enabled automatically on all ESXi hosts in that cluster. One of these clusters can be your management cluster where several management VMs are running including the vCenter…

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Migration from Collapsed to Dedicated NSX Edge Cluster

  • Posted on June 9, 2018June 10, 2018
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

In a recent PSO VMware NSX engagement with one of our customers, and as their new hardware arrived, they decided to make a migration of ESG edges and DLR control VMs to a dedicated cluster. I want to share with…

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NSX-V Distributed Logical Router: With or Without Control VM?

  • Posted on May 17, 2018May 17, 2018
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

Greetings, In this relatively short post, I will start with a brief introduction about NSX distributed logical router (DLR) and then I will delve into the main topic which I want to demonstrate here. Overview The main purpose of the…

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DELL PowerEdge ESXi Hosts: LLDP Not Working With Intel X710 10GB Cards

  • Posted on May 10, 2018May 10, 2018
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

Recently I was engaged with a full vSphere migration for one of our customers (both hardware and software). We faced an issue getting Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) to work with the new PowerEdge R730 ESXi hosts. Let’s start with…

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VSAN Support for DELLEMC BOSS Controller

  • Posted on March 29, 2018March 29, 2018
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

Greetings, Great news from DELLEMC for VSAN users today ! I have encountered several limitations in VSAN designs using DELLEMC Poweredge servers where using PERC H730 controllers will enable you to operate either in RAID0 or pass-through mode but not…

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VMware vSAN & vSphere HA – Best Practices

  • Posted on March 25, 2018March 25, 2018
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

In this post, we are going to demonstrate the best practices regarding vSphere HA configuration on a vSAN-enabled cluster. Configuration Order vSAN and vSphere HA must be configured in a specific order: – vSAN must be enabled before vSphere HA…

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Coredump Partition Sizing on a VSAN 6.6 ESXi Node

  • Posted on March 22, 2018March 22, 2018
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

In one of my VSAN design engagements, we have VSAN 6.6 ESXi nodes with 512GB RAM while ESXi is installed on internal SD-Cards. The customer is planning to scale up RAM to 1TB per host, and to scale over with…

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VSAN Considerations with PERC R730 RAID Controllers

  • Posted on March 22, 2018March 22, 2018
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

I have been working on a VSAN design and deploy engagement for one of our customers, and we went up having some limitations and decisions that have to be taken into consideration especially with the device selection for ESXi boot,…

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This is the personal blog of Mohamad Alhussein. It is dedicated to my views and opinions on the various areas of the datacenter while emphasizing virtualization. It also serves as a learning tool for me to document deployments, configurations, and share possible solutions for the issues I encounter.

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