After spending a bit of time tidying up cables in my rack, I figured I’d take the opportunity to write about my current setup. Here it is in all its glory: Not the greatest picture. From top to bottom: Here’s a diagram of how it’s all connected together. Not in the diagram is a UniFi … Read more
I’m not going to run any benchmarks as there’s plenty of information out there, but what I’m going to do is deploy VCF on a single MS-A2 and time it, I’ve included times for deploying onto a single NUC Extreme, as well as a single Xeon host for comparison. To keep things as fair as … Read more
I recently upgraded my Domain Controller to the Server 2025. Not long after the upgrade, I noticed I could no longer sign into vSphere with AD accounts. Under Single Sign On in vCenter Server, against my domain I saw the following error message: A vCenter Single Sign-On service error occurred Under the configuration for LDAP … Read more
Whilst HCX is a perfectly suitable to migrate most workloads, there are some which require careful consideration and planning such as SQL Clusters, Oracle (or other database servers), load balancers, and even Active Directory Domain Controllers. Domain Controllers definitely fall into the category of requiring extra consideration before migrating them with HCX. Whilst it is … Read more
I see quite a bit of confusion about this internally and with customers, so I figured I would write a quick blog post on the subject. Starting with HCX 4.9, you are able to active HCX Enterprise services using VCF Solution Licensing. To save you a little bit of reading, here is the TL;DR: If … Read more
HC 4.10 has just been released and with it come a whole host of excellent new features. You can read the release notes here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-HCX/4.10/rn/vmware-hcx-410-release-notes/index.html In this post, I want to concentrate on what will be welcome to customers who operate their own private datacentres and have no use for encryption. Historically, the traffic between … Read more
With the recent announcement that VMware Fusion (and Workstation Pro) are now free for personal use, many might be looking to import their Parallels VMs into Fusion. Sadly, the import functionality relied on OVFTool which doesn’t work on Macs with Apple Silicon, therefore the import functionality has been removed from the product and isn’t present … Read more
HCX has historically always required internet access for activation and updates. Even after activation, it requires constant access as otherwise the software goes into a deactivated state. Whilst an internet proxy can be used for this access, there are customers out there who have been asking for years to be able to deploy it into … Read more
With the release of HCX 4.8 comes in my opinion one of the biggest new features released since Network Extension High Availability went IA in 4.3. In previous versions for any given Compute Profile pair, while it was possible to deploy more than one Service Mesh, only the first one would be used. I previously … Read more
Following on from my previous post on HCX+, I’ll now cover the next stage in the process. Apologies for the delay, I’ve been enjoying some time off work! As a very quick recap, so far both our on-prem and SDDC HSM appliances have been deployed and activated. If we use the UI to try and … Read more