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VMware Cloud Director: Step-by-Step VCD Upgrade from version 10.4.2 to 10.5.1

  • Posted on January 13, 2024January 13, 2024
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

In this post, I will guide you through the process of upgrading VCD from version 10.4.2 to version 10.5.1. Although VCD 10.5.1 is considered as a patch release from version 10.5.0, however it came with a lot of new features…

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  • VMware NSX-T Data Center

VMware NSX-T 3.x: Second NSX Manager Deployment Failed – VMDK Transfer Error

  • Posted on March 19, 2023March 19, 2023
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

During VMware NSX Manager cluster deployment, and after the OVA deployment of the first NSX manager and adding the vCenter server as a compute manager, you may encounter the below error message while trying to provision the 2nd NSX manager…

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  • VMware NSX-T Data Center

NSX-T 3.2.x Manager – Sizing matters

  • Posted on March 8, 2022March 8, 2022
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

In this post I just want to share with the community our experience with one issue that we faced recently in one of the new NSX-T projects that our team is delivering. This is a fresh deployment of NSX-T 3.2.0.1…

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  • VMware Cloud Director

Cloud Director 10.x: vApp Guest OS Customization Greyed Out at Catalog Level

  • Posted on September 8, 2020September 8, 2020
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

One of the latest things I tried to do recently in my VMware cloud director environment is to create a shared catalog with some imported vCenter OS templates to be used by other cloud director organizations while enabling guest OS…

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  • VMware Cloud Director

VMware Cloud Director 10.1.1 – One or more VC/NSXs have been detected to be disconnected

  • Posted on August 26, 2020August 26, 2020
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

As I already deployed cloud director 10.1.1 and integrated it with vCenter 7.0 and NSX-T 3.0. Things were working as expected and vCenter connection status was successful and connected until I received an error today in the provider tenant saying…

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  • VMware Cloud Director

Create Geneve-Backed Provider VDC in Cloud Director 10.x

  • Posted on August 23, 2020August 23, 2020
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

VMware Cloud Director enables cloud providers to build secure, multi-tenant clouds by pooling virtual infrastructure resources into virtual data centers. Cloud Director introduces the virtual infrastructure resources to users through web-based portals and programmatic interfaces as a fully automated, catalog-based…

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  • VMware NSX-T Data Center

NSX-T: Migrate VMKernel Ports from VSS/VDS to N-VDS

  • Posted on November 22, 2019November 23, 2019
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

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…

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  • VMware NSX-T Data Center

NSX-T 2.4.1: Configure Licensing & Register Compute Managers

  • Posted on June 13, 2019June 13, 2019
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

In my previous post, I shared a step-by-step procedure to deploy NSX-T 2.4.1 manager. In this post, I am gonna move one step ahead and configure NSX-T licensing and register my home lab vCenter compute manager with NSX-T Data Center.…

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  • VMware NSX Data Center for vSphere

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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  • VMware NSX Data Center for vSphere

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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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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