Time to time we have to upgrade products to resolve bugs/vulnerabilities and get new features. During VMware NSX upgrade from 3.2.x, 4.0.x, 4.1.x to version 4.2.x you might get the error on Pre-Checks run step: This happen because internal NSX services use certificates which already expired or close to expiration… Continue reading
When you are migrating environments, quite often customer doesn’t want to have any downtime for workloads or workloads are critical and have to stay always available. In other cases you might need to have underlay (VLAN) connected workloads and Overlay connected workloads in the same network segment and keep their… Continue reading
VMware vSphere Infrastructure build completed, tested and ready for workloads. What’s next? Right, it’s time to create bunch of Windows and Linux VMs for customers! Fastest way to do so – prepare VMware PowerCLI / PowerShell script. In my case as part of the project I had to build 200+… Continue reading
Hello, it’s been a while since I last blogged, had a busy few years, took a sabbatical or there was nothing to blog about without breaching a NDA. Anyway I’m back here with a new issue which may help some of those who are virtualizing latency sensitive workloads, a niche… Continue reading
I’ve been assigned the task of gathering VPN statistics for a client. Their system operates on VMware NSX 4.0.0.1. After checking, I found that the current PowerCLI lacks the capability to extract VPN statistics. Since VMware NSX has a RestAPI interface, we can perform various actions through RestAPI calls. I’ve… Continue reading
As you might aware VMware announced deprecation of the Integrated Windows Authentication in a future release of vSphere KB. So we had a task for our customers to switch to AD over LDAP authentication. I’ve prepared this manual and want to share it with you to save your time on… Continue reading
An update and some reasoning of why I decided to create a YouTube channel about technology called The Cross-Cloud Guy. Continue reading
In this post I provide several examples of how Ansible URI module can be used to automate REST API, and specifically VMware NSX-T REST API. Continue reading
A Quick Reference on how to create a Security Policy with Firewall Rules using NSX-T Policy API. Continue reading
Do you want to test or start learning Ansible and you have only Windows 10?
Following steps will help you to install and configure Ansible in Windows Subsystem for Linux. Continue reading