If, like me, you use a Chromium based browser and you are having issues registering your second SRM server to your second vCenter server, you may encounter the above error message, as shown in the screen shot below during the registration process. I spent quite some time digging around in various log files on the … Read more
VMware have been moving away from Windows installs of vCenter Server and 6.7 is going to be the last Windows version (hurrah!). SRM was next in their sights and with the release of 8.2 we can say goodbye to the Windows version and associated license and issues it came with (slow start up for one). … Read more
VMware have released the new version of NSX (6.4.5) on the 18th of April. Full release notes can be read here. One of the frustrating things working with NSX is the requirement to use the old Flex interface to carry out certain functions such as configuring routing on Edge devices. Thankfully 6.4.5 moves one step … Read more
I’m lucky/stupid enough to have reasonably powerful hardware for my home lab. Whilst I am a great advocate of building as much on physical equipment as possible, sometimes hardware costs are prohibitive or overkill to experiment with some new technologies. A new project at work required some work on Cross-vCenter NSX. Since I only had … Read more
Since I have a 10 Gbit switch, I thought I would test to see what sort of network throughput I can get between VMs in two scenarios – one using standard networking and one when connected using NSX logical switches. I have previously done this and noticed that the throughput when using the VTEP vmk’s … Read more
In my opinion, if you’re wanting to learn or sit exams, nothing beats practising on physical equipment. Online material is great, but you really do need to get proper hands on to fully understand all of the technology areas you’re interested in studying and certifying for. My lab has grown somewhat in the past few … Read more
Now that the NSX manager appliance is installed and set up with vCenter, it’s time to deploy the control cluster and prepare the hosts. But before we do this, we need to define IP Pools for the Controller cluster and hosts to use. Head over to Groups and Tags from within the Networking and Security … Read more
The blog is a natural progression from setting up my 2 node vSAN homelab, although I have now added a third host and done away with the witness appliance (technically my third host is now the witness, but I gain another compute node). The end result of this blog is for a VM to sit … Read more
Today I’m going to talk about setting up a 2 node vSAN witness homelab. Homelabs are important for anyone wanting to progress their knowledge, although some hardware can be quite expensive, especially if you want to work with multiple hosts! Nested environments are quite popular but I think nothing beats having physical hardware to play … Read more
*** This is no longer applicable *** I’ve always had a desire to become VCP certified in the DCV track, however as I am self employed the cost of the course has always been prohibitive. In the UK, I had been looking at prices of around £3k which is a lot of money! At work … Read more