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
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
Here below I would like to share with you the issue I had in the past. One day I found NSX Manager VM non-responding. Reboot didn’t help because of the filesystem error as shown below: If you press Enter it just power off the VM. There is no way to login… Continue reading
The NSX word is being quiet famous now within the IT and none IT people, but this is totally from two different points of views. The IT people who are following what’s new on the Market will say “NSX is the network virtualization technology produced by VMware”, while the none… Continue reading
Update 1.4.2015 : added vSphere Data Protection, updated vSphere Replication, corrected host max VMs, added VVOL details vSphere 6.0 is out since 2nd of February 2015 lets see whats new: 1. Compute Features the new virtual hardware ‘version 11’ 128 vCPUs (64 vCPU with 5.5) 4TB of RAM (NUMA aware) (1TB… Continue reading
Many of you are willing to get the VMware certification but, the price of the ICM (Install, Configure and Manage) course is stopping you. VMware announced that “If you are Valid CCNA or CCNP certification” you can go for the NSX exam (VCP-NV) which allow you to have the certification… Continue reading
If Virtualism were a religion, then VMworld would be its Mecca. Being devoted Virtualists, we could not miss such a holy gathering. Most of us flew to Barcelona in October 2014 to participate in the event. For us this VMworld is special, because it is the first one since TheVirtualist… Continue reading
