I was doing some testing, and honestly, I got annoyed about NSX-T WEB UI kicking me out of my session after 30 minutes of idle time. So, I got curious, what if someone wants to change this value to a longer one, or may be to a shorter one for security reasons? How can the timeout value be changed? 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
Some Background The fact that you have ended up reading this Blog Post, most probably means you are very aware of what the Policy API is, how cool and flexible it is, how you can use a declarative approach to define things and just run one API call to create… Continue reading
OK, this post will be a simple one. All I want to show is the exact API code with the body you can send to NSX manager to create Network Segments (aka Logical Switches). This information is, of course, available in the NSX-T API guide but to be absolutely honest,… 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
We are using AppVolumes Manager on several environments together with Horizon View. When we were deploying the first AppVolume Manager I was asked to provide permissions for AppVolume Manager to local ESXi hosts to avoid using root permissions. There are guides which you can use to setup all required permissions… Continue reading
How to reduce the overhead of managing multiple Desktop Pools under Horizon? This is the question that everyone asks when they have multiple Desktop Pools serving multiple customers and one Golden Image for each of them. Answer to this question is very simple, multiple snapshots on the same Golden Image.… Continue reading
Last November, Altaro released a new version – version 8, of their solution to backup virtual machines. Eight versions in nine years prove Altaro’s continuous effort to offer a mature product used by more than 40,000 clients and globally recognized. In two of my previous posts, I emphasized main features… Continue reading
Intro To clarify, vCenter HA over Layer 3 means that vCenter Active, Passive and Witness nodes will be running on different subnets. And I am not talking about the HA network, I am taking about the Management network. This of course means that you will need to rewrite your DNS… Continue reading