Recently I upgraded my lab and can now run VSAN but as I went to enable it the edit button on the cluster settings wasnt there. I was also receiving the below error code when accessing the VSAN health section. Unexpected status code: 400 I came across a KB that […]
Running vCentre as an appliance is becoming more common and with the latest version its very appealing over running as a Windows server. Updating the virtual appliance to a newer version of vCenter is easily done and the following will illustrate the process to upgrade vCenter appliance 6.0 Update 1 […]
You can use VSAN with Horizon View Advanced or Enterprise license and given the improvements to VSAN over the last year its becoming more and more appealing. The following will illustrate how easy it is to configure linked clone desktops on VSAN as well as showing the default storage policies […]
Platform Service Controller (PSC) can be deployed in different topologies, check the supported topologies here before deployment. I have done a few deployments now using the below topology across two sites. The following will illustrate how to check that replication between sites. Using this method provides Enhanced Linked-Mode between vCenters. VMware KB […]
Yesterday was the latest North East VMUG which I was lucky enough to be able to do a presentation. The event was excellent with some great VMware representation and a fantastic turnout. On the bill was VMware’s CTO Joe Baguley @JoeBaguley and Duncan Epping @DuncanYB guys that need no introduction. As well as the […]
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 I have now established east-west communication I must now configure north-south communication - this is achieved by using NSX Edge (ESG). ESG supports dynamic routing protocols that can be peered with the physical infrastructure, for my lab I will be attempting to […]
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 The next part of my lab is to start creating logical switches, connecting VMs and configuring routing. Routing can be achieved by either centralised routing or distributed routing. Centralised routing represents NSX Edge as an on-ramp/off-ramp setup, this can provide east-west routing but is […]
Part 1 Part 2 Now its time to start work on the data plane and we start by preparing my hosts and network. Preparing the hosts consists of deploying additional vibs to the ESXi hosts, configuring a VXLAN Tunnel Endpoint (VTEP) kernel interface on each host, configuring a range of […]
The next part of my lab is to deploy the NSX controller cluster. The controller cluster consist of controller nodes - this is the control plane responsible for managing the hypervisor switching and routing modules. NSX Controller maintains information about all hosts, logical switches, and distributed logical routers For resiliency and […]
The following illustrates how to install the required vibs for NSX 6.2. First download the .zip, browse to the below depending on your ESX version. This post will be related to vSphere 6.0 vSphere 6 - https://NSX-Manager-IP/bin/vdn/vibs-6.2.0/6.0-2984108/vxlan.zip vSphere 5.5 - https://NSX-Manager-IP/bin/vdn/vibs-6.2.0/5.5-2983935/vxlan.zip CLI To update using the CLI extract the .zip file […]