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NSX-T
Deploy VMware NSX-T 2.4 Edge Transport Appliance VM
More VMware NSX-T Data Center 2.4 fun! Working through deploying NSX-T 2.4 in the home lab and stepping through the various functional components of getting the lab up and running with NSX-T Data Center 2.4. After working through a few…
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Service-Defined Firewall
What Is VMware Service-Defined Firewall Released?
Security is perhaps one of the most talked about and exciting areas of IT operations today as it is constantly evolving and making use of new technologies to stop the “bad guys” from compromising business-critical systems and data. With the…
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NSX-T
NSX-T 2.4 Invalid Host Type or Host Not Supported Error
As the last few posts have indicated, I have been having lots of fun with NSX-T 2.4 in the lab. NSX-T 2.4 has tremendous new benefits and features that bring great new functionality to the table. In the last post,…
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NSX-T
NSX-T 2.4 Compute Manager is Already Registered with Other NSX Manager Error
In working in the lab with the new release of NSX Data Center 2.4 for the past few days, I have ran into a few little issues that are worth posting and sharing with others. Some of these are ones…
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NSX-T
Install VMware NSX-T 2.4 Manager Controller Combined Appliance
The VMware community has been abuzz over the past couple or three days at the time of this writing with the release of VMware NSX-T Data Center 2.4. This is a huge release that has everyone talking about the new…
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NSX-T
VMware NSX-T Data Center 2.4 Released New Features
There is much excitement in the world of software-defined networking. VMware’s NSX product has gained tremendous momentum over the past couple of years especially and there is a lot of work and development that has been going into extending the…
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Backup Software
Vembu BDR Suite 4.0 Product Review
There is certainly a crowded market when it comes to data protection in the enterprise datacenter space. Many vendors are competing for customers who are looking to backup their business-critical workloads residing in various platforms and environments. These primarily include…
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Windows Server 2019
Upgrade Windows Server 2019 Evaluation to Full Version Standard to Datacenter
Recently, I ran into an issue playing around with Storage Spaces Direct where I had inadvertently cloned over a Windows Server 2019 Standard Edition template. Storage Spaces Direct is feature that requires running Windows Server 2019 Datacenter. I had invested…
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vSphere 6.7
VMware vSphere VCSA 6.5 to VCSA 6.7 Postgres Upgrade Error Fix
A couple of days ago in a production environment, I ran into an issue upgrading an existing VCSA 6.5 appliance to a VCSA 6.7 appliance. Stage 1 of the upgrade process with the appliance deployment was going fine, however, with…
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Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2019 GA Storage Spaces Direct Non-WSSD Certified Registry Key
For those that are labbing with Windows Server 2019 RTM version Storage Spaces Direct, you may quickly find that if you try to provision a lab version of Storage Spaces Direct using the “re-released” GA bits of the OS, you…
