Posts related to Virtualization and Cloud technology based on VMware products.
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
Part 2 This is Part 2 for the article “Export / Backup VMware NSX ESG/DLR configurations with PowerNSX (part 1, ESGs)”. I’m going to show how you can export configuration for DLRs in your environment. How to use this script The way to use script is the same as in… Continue reading
Why do you need this. If you work with VMware NSX on daily basis you should care about Backup & Restore procedure. According to VMware you can schedule NSX Manager backup and think you are on safe side but restore procedure requires to perform full NSX Manager restore and then… Continue reading
Summary Those of you who deal with FW rules creation on daily basis already know how boring could be to create 20-100 FW rules. And what if you need to repeat this task next day or next week again and again. In this case you need to automate this process.… Continue reading
This week while doing the normal check of the environment I came to run into a warning on the VCSA 6.5 stating: PostgresSQL Service Health Alarm This was the first time I saw this kind of warning on the environment. After logging in to the vSphere Appliance Managment I could… Continue reading
As you may already know, after deployment of NSX-T Manager, users are stuck with a single built-in admin user. This might be OK for a lab environment, but in any size of production deployment this is major limitation/problem. In order to have some sort of RBAC, NSX-T Manager requires usage… Continue reading
