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: vCenter
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...
vCD and Cross-vCenters: An SSL relationship that went south
Even with the most detailed standard operating procedures, software can still throw at you stones here and there. This time, I got in the middle of an ugly fight between the vCloud Director vCenter...
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...
vCenter and PSC and the 4096 bits
So, I’ve been meaning to do some tests around VMware VCSA and PSC high availability and a major prerequisites to achieve this is to change the SSL certificates on all participating appliances. Going back...
VMware NSX and Collapsed Clusters vSphere Upgrades
So, recently I did an upgrade to one of our clients and they had a collapsed cluster. The vCenter server and the PSCs were already excluded in NSX. When doing the upgrade of the...
