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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

Testing HCX Network Extension HA

17 December 2021 chris Leave a comment

The HCX team have just released version 4.3 and there are some really nice new features. Go ahead and check…

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Posted in: HCX, Homelab, VMC on AWS, VMware Filed under: hcx 4.3, hcx ne ha, hcx network extension

HCX Migrations – do not attach NICs to the ‘none’ network at the destination

28 September 2021 chris Leave a comment

It came to my attention that there may be a scenario where a VM migrated with HCX can end up…

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

How to configure HCX within VMC on AWS to use an AWS Direct Connect

4 June 2021 chris Leave a comment

I see this question come up often both in the field and internally. VMware’s public documentation on this covers most…

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

Dell Precision 3440 Small Form Factor workstation – new vSphere lab idea?

19 April 2021 chris Leave a comment

I’ve been using a HP Z640 Workstation as the core of my homelab for some time. It’s been excellent –…

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Posted in: Dell, Homelab, VMware, vSAN

HCX 4.0 – what’s new?

24 February 2021 chris

HCX 4.0 has just been made GA and is available via the ‘software update’ process within the HCX manager. As…

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Posted in: HCX, VMware Filed under: hcx 4.3

Using PowerCLI to limit (and change) HCX bulk migration speed

3 November 2020 chris

I’ve been working with a customer recently and they had an interesting question for me. They are migrating VMs from…

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

vCenter Server 7.0.0c high CPU usage

31 July 2020 chris

I updated one of my vCenter servers this morning to the newly released 7.0.0c (build 16620007 / 7.0.0.10600) and after…

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Posted in: Homelab, VMware

Migrating using HCX error: vMotion failed. A specified parameter was not correct

23 July 2020 chris

I’m currently working with a customer and we are leveraging HCX’s ability to vMotion VMs between their legacy datacenter and…

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Posted in: Dell, HCX, VCF, VMware, VxRail

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