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Nested NSX 6.2 – Part 2 Controller Cluster

Nested NSX 6.2 – Part 2 Controller Cluster

The next part of my lab is to deploy the NSX controller cluster. The controller cluster consist of controller nodes – this is the control plane responsible for managing the hypervisor switching and routing modules. NSX Controllermaintains information about all hosts, logical switches, and distributed logical routers For resiliency and performance production cluster nodes be […]]> The next part of my lab is to deploy the NSX controller cluster. The controller cluster consist of controller…Read More

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Apple Mac Pro 6,1 PCIe SSD issue resolved w/ESXi 5.5u3b & ESXi 6.0u1b

Apple Mac Pro 6,1 PCIe SSD issue resolved…

Early last year, the newApple Mac Pro 6,1 (aka black trashcan design) was certified and fully supported on vSphere 6.0 which I had blogged about here. Several months later, it was discovered that some of the newerMac Pro 6,1 units were being shipped witha different model of their PCIe SSD device than what was originally […]]> http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2016/01/apple-mac-pro-61-pcie-ssd-issue-resolved-wesxi-5-5u3b-esxi-6-0u1b.html/feed 0 Windows Server 2012 fix is out for the VCS to VCSA…Read More

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Completely Disable Time Synchronization for your VM

Completely Disable Time Synchronization for…

Some administrative practices, like a bad habit, have more lives than the proverbial cat – they tend to stay around forever. It is, therefore, very comforting when one finds a problematic administrative practice that has not just been universally abandoned by administrators, but is also on the top of any junior administrator’s “configurations sure to […] The post Completely Disable Time Synchronization for your VM appeared first on Virtualize Business Critical Applications .

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VMware vSphere 6.0 Update 1b Released

VMware vSphere 6.0 Update 1b Released

VMware has released VMware vSphere 6.0 Update 1b today. This is a maintenance release mostly but new features has been added as well. One of the new features is that with this version vCenter seversupports URL-based patching using the zipped update bundle. This is second “patch” release for vSphere 6.0 and many resolved issues had […] Read the full post VMware vSphere 6.0 Update 1b Released at ESX Virtualization.

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VMware NSX and Split and Smear Micro-Segmentation

VMware NSX and Split and Smear Micro-Segmentation

While external perimeter protection requirements will most likely command hardware acceleration and support for the foreseeable future, the distributed nature of the services inside the data center calls for a totally different set of specifications. Some vendors have recently claimed they can achieve micro-segmentation at data center scale while maintaining a hardware architecture. As I […] The post VMware NSX and Split and Smear Micro-Segmentation appeared first on The Network…Read More

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Migration of a distributed switch (vDS) to a new vCenter (PowerCLI edition) – via vLenzker

Migration of a distributed switch (vDS) to a…

Migration of a distributed switch (vDS) to a new vCenter (PowerCLI edition)

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VMware vSphere 6 Fault Tolerance – Architecture and Performance

VMware vSphere 6 Fault Tolerance – Architecture…

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vCenter server service won’t start after upgrading 5.5 to Update 3b

vCenter server service won’t start after…

Just a quick heads up! Over the last week I’ve been upgrading our vCenter servers from version 5.5 to the most recent 5.5 Update 3b version and have ran into a small hiccup. The upgrade of SSO, Web Client, Inventory Service and even vCenter server all went as expected without any issues. Then I rebooted […]]> https://miketabor.com/vcenter-server-service-wont-start-after-upgrading-5-5-to-update-3b/feed/ 0 Synology DS415+ NAS Review https://miketabor.com/synology-ds415-nas-review/…Read More

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Migrating from a vDS to a VSS (via vWud.net)

Migrating from a vDS to a VSS (via vWud.net)

So you need to remove a NSX enabled host from a cluster but first you need to migrate your host networking from the vDS to a VSS. There are a few ways to do this but by far the easiest is to migrate your vmkernel portgroups rather than recreate them manually Doing it this way…Read More

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How to change VMDK geometry

How to change VMDK geometry

I recently ran into an issue were I needed to change the geometry of some VMDK files – I will do a seperate blog post on where and why later. For now I will just focus on how tochange VMDK… [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]

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Methods for installing @VMware Tools 10 on your ESXi host

Methods for installing VMware Tools 10 on your…

Thanks to its independent release cycle, VMware Tools 10 can be updated separately from the ESXi host, reducing the impact of updating the entire host.

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