chris I’ve spent some time and I’ve finally moved my blog to a new host, and it’s also behind a Cloudflare. It took me a while so I apologise for the site being unavailable at times. This is a very quick post to say that it has moved and if something is not working right then … Read more
A question came up in an internal Slack channel whether VMware had written a guide on installing the OS Assisted Migration (OSAM) Sentinel Agent via Microsoft’s SCCM (now called Endpoint Manager) software. I don’t think such a guide exists, so I thought ‘how hard can it be?’ and decided to give it a go. The … Read more
For my home firewall I’ve recently switched from using a UniFi USG Pro to a virtual Untangle Next Generation Firewall (Untangle NG Firewall) appliance. The USG has served me well, however with no future developments for USG firmware, it’s starting to show its age somewhat. More advanced VPN support is lacking, there’s no 10 Gbps … Read more
I use a QNAP TS-673A at home for both vSphere storage (presented via iSCSI), media, TimeMachine backups, Veeam backups as well as providing NFS mounts to a Linux VM amongst other duties. After upgrading from QuTS Hero h4.5.4.1813 build 20211006 to h5.0.0.1892 Build 20211222 my NFS mounts to a Linux VM stopped working as expected. … Read more
The HCX team have just released version 4.3 and there are some really nice new features. Go ahead and check out the release notes here. One such addition is High Availability for HCX Network Extension and it is something which every customer I have worked has requested or asked about. As such it is most … Read more
It came to my attention that there may be a scenario where a VM migrated with HCX can end up on the ‘none’ port group which HCX creates in destination environments. This port group is created by HCX and it is not intended to be used by workload VMs. There may be a situations where … Read more
I see this question come up often both in the field and internally. VMware’s public documentation on this covers most detail but the first time I configured HCX to use an AWS Direct Connect (DX) I was left with some questions. Before we dive in any further, we should cover some AWS DX basics. In … Read more
I’ve been using a HP Z640 Workstation as the core of my homelab for some time. It’s been excellent – it’s quiet, it’s easy to work in, it’s certainly not slow but then it’s not going to set any records. It has become tiresome only having a single host, such as managing updates as I … Read more
HCX 4.0 has just been made GA and is available via the ‘software update’ process within the HCX manager. As you can tell by the ‘4.0’ part, it is no longer following the ‘R’ naming convention. The new version means that this is a major version upgrade and it brings with it a host of … Read more
I’ve been working with a customer recently and they had an interesting question for me. They are migrating VMs from remote sites which have limited bandwidth. As such, HCX Bulk Migration is the method we have chosen for their migration project. During the day, they would like to limit the amount of bandwidth the migration … Read more