HPE Gen9, ESXi 7.0 and NSX-T 3.0: For the love of the homelab!
In my home-lab, I always keep my physical hosts up to date (to the latest) and do versioning in my different nested environments. Two days ago I upgraded NSX-T to 3.0 and the upgrade...
Category: ESXi
Nesting vSphere vDS on NSX-T N-VDS
Since I moved everything to NSX-T at the physical layer, I am now in the process of building an NSX-v nested environment so that still cater to the different projects that have to do...
vCenter Server Appliance: A Tale of Rejuvenation
For the past couple of years, I’ve been involved with a lot of Service Provider projects where the primary focus was/still on Public/Provider/Government cloud designs where vCloud Director (vCD) is the awesomeness that brings...
Updating vSphere Customized Images: The VIB Space Conflict
My first blog after almost 3 months of 0 blogs (due to various reasons that I will share soon as it’s a lot to write about ^_^). With the recent release of NSX-T 2.5,...
HPE ESXi 6.7 U2 Customized Image and HPE Dynamic Smart Array B140i Controller Driver
I’ve been busy for the past two days upgrading my home lab to 6.7 U2 and one of my servers is a ProLiant ML150 Gen9 and its RAID controller is a B140i. This host...
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...
