VMworld Europe 2017: Glossophobia Retired
For sometime I have been aching to write about this but becuase of work obviously and my committment towards the VCDX certification; I had to delay it a bit. I would like to start...
Author: Abdullah
VMware UMDS: Internet Proxies and HTTPS Inspection
Since update manager is part of the vCenter Server appliance (VCSA), from a security perspective I don’t like the idea of providing the vCenter Server with internet access and here is where the beautiful...
vCenter and NSX-v Administrators: TBoP (The Battle of Permissions)
Although sometimes it is entertaining but it is quite upsetting but when you get into a table where people struggle to find a middle ground in terms of who owns what and who gets...
NSX Controller Cluster Failure: What to expect?
In this blog post I will be detailing what to expect in the case of losing a controller cluster, in terms of: 1 controller cluster node. 2 controller cluster nodes. 3 controller cluster nodes....
Migrating from a VMware NSX Collapsed Cluster to Dispersed Clusters
Not something that one would do on a daily basis, but being on the field you sometimes get into situations where the customer wants to go into the implementation but because of procurement issues...
NSX VXLAN Control Plane Replication Modes Design Decision
So in a recent customer engagement I kind of struggled a bit to provide the customer with definite guidelines on the selection of the VXLAN replication modes, and as such I snooped around and...
NSX Manager SSH after SSL Replacement
In one of my project’s I changed the NSX’s Manager SSL certificate to a GoDaddy certificate, and everything worked like charm. At that point in time I didn’t SSH and I just logged in...
