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My homelab – 2023 Update Part 1

29 March 2023 chris Leave a comment

Although I have previously documented my homelab, there have been some changes as well as a housemove. This is part…

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Posted in: Dell, HCX, Homelab, Microsoft, Networking, NSX, QNAP, Synology, UniFi, VMC on AWS, VMware, vSAN Filed under: hcx, homelab, nsx, unifi, vexpert, vsphere

VMware HCX – common misconceptions and unsupported configuration

7 March 2023 chris Leave a comment

This is a post covering some things which I regularly see in the field. I’ll endeavour to keep this updated…

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Posted in: AVS, AWS, Dell, HCX, Homelab, Microsoft, VMC on AWS, VMware, VxRail Filed under: bulk migration, hcx, migration, osam, vmc, vmc on aws

Single HCX site installation supporting OSAM Migrations (HCX Consolidated Architecture)

28 February 2023 chris 1 Comment

HCX OS Assisted Migration is a migration method within HCX where we can move supported guest OS VMs from a…

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Posted in: HCX, Homelab, Linux, NSX, Synology, Ubuntu, VCF, VMware, vSAN Filed under: hcx, homeab, hyper-v, kvm, osam, vcf, vexpert, vmware

HCX Bulk Migration for Single vCenter Server Topologies

20 February 2023 chris 2 Comments

Part way through the HCX 4.5 release notes it mentions the above with the following note: “In HCX 4.5, HCX…

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Posted in: HCX, Homelab, VCF, VMware Filed under: amd, hcx, homelab, intel, migration, nsx, vcf, vmware, x86

Get HCX Manager version information using PowerCLI

8 February 2023 chris Leave a comment

If you have a relatively small HCX deployment, for example a legacy vCenter environment connected to a single VMC on…

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Posted in: HCX, Homelab, NSX, VCF, VMC on AWS, VMware

How VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery compares to VMware Site Recovery Manager

26 January 2023 chris 1 Comment

VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery (VCDR) is a relatively new product, certainly compared to Site Recovery Manager (SRM) which has been…

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Posted in: AVS, AWS, Microsoft, SRM, VCDR, VMC on AWS, VMware Filed under: aws, cloud, dr, srm, vcdc vs srm, vcdr, vmc, vmc on aws, vmware, vsphere, vsphere replication

vCenter 7.0.3h to vCenter 8 upgrade fails during Stage 2 – Importing Workload Control Plane data

26 October 2022 chris Leave a comment

I decided to upgrade my home lab vCenter to version 8, and I faced an error on stage two of…

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Posted in: Homelab, VMware

Configure BGP on a UDM SE v3.0.10 or later

25 October 2022 chris 8 Comments

Update 29/10/2022 – this does NOT survive a firmware update. I’ll endeavour to work out how to keep this persistent.…

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Posted in: Homelab, Networking, NSX, Ubuntu, UniFi, VMware

Automating the HCX OSAM Sentinel Agent install via SCCM

24 February 2022 chris 3 Comments

A question came up in an internal Slack channel whether VMware had written a guide on installing the OS Assisted…

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Posted in: AWS, HCX, Homelab, VCF, VMC on AWS, VMware Filed under: automation, hcx 4.3, hcx osam, homelab, osam, sccm, sentinel, vmware

Untangle an IPSEC issue – traffic selectors unacceptable

20 January 2022 chris Leave a comment

For my home firewall I’ve recently switched from using a UniFi USG Pro to a virtual Untangle Next Generation Firewall…

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Posted in: Homelab, Networking, UniFi, Untangle, VMC on AWS, VMware Filed under: bufferbloat, codel, fq, fq_codel, ipsec, nsx, nsx-t, untangle, vmc on aws

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