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
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
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
If you are using Intel X710,XL710 or X722 adapters in your environment, you may have already noticed, that LLDP (Link LayerDiscovery Protocol) is not working for you. And you are getting following message “Link Layer Discovery Protocol is not available on this physical network adapter” Apparently those cards have their… Continue reading
In this article I would like to show you how to replace failed HDD (or SSD) drive in VMware vSAN cluster running on Softlayer Cloud. 1. Open web-client and navigate to: Hosts and Clusters -> choose Cluster -> Manage -> Settings -> Virtual SAN -> Disk Management You will see all… 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
We often hear about clusters, but what does a “cluster” actually mean? How are clusters used and what are their benefits? In this article, I will take a look at the most frequently used types of clusters and advantages of using them within the framework of the VMware virtual infrastructure.… Continue reading
A lot has been written in the last few days about the Shockwave Flash crashing when using vSphere Web Client 6.x VMware produced KB2151945 on how to workaround the problem, yes a workaround, because until now there is no resolution for the problem. Until now nothing new, just follow the KB… Continue reading
Situation: we are in a cloud environment using bare metal servers installed with VMware vSphere, VMware vSAN and VMware NSX. Cloud Backup is a topic of this article and architecture decision was made in a way to have a possibility to restore servers immediately in case of VMware vSAN failure.… Continue reading
