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Cloud Director tidbits: Changing the site name

After the release of VMware Cloud Director 10.1 (yes, you read it correctly, the lowercase “v” is gone now), it was time to re-installed my lab environment a. Because of the new name, the acronym is now slightly different (VCD Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 3 yearsApril 19, 2020 ago
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Homelab

Homelab storage expansion

The SSD tier in my lab became quite full in the beginning of this year, so the search began for some expansion. All 8 hot-swap slots in my single node lab server are occupied so, it needed to be an Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 3 yearsApril 9, 2020 ago
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Cloud Director

vCloud Director Identity and Access Management – Part 2

The second part of this topic in the “vCloud Director Identity and Access Management” series touches the “per Org VDC” permission feature. I decided to split the topic into a multi-part series due to the length of the original one. Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 4 yearsMarch 29, 2020 ago
Security

Using Equinix SmartKey for VM and vSAN Encryption

Since a while now, customers show an increasingly interest in data-at-rest encryption. vSphere has build-in encryption features since the 6.5 version. I wrote this post to show how Equinix SmartKey can help implementing these encryption features without buying HSM appliances Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 4 yearsMarch 20, 2020 ago
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Office

Solving my OneDrive sync issue

After a recent Windows related update, I noticed that files were not synchronizing anymore on my desktop. After a quick look into the recent changes, I discovered that on the 17th of February the latest Windows cumulative update was installed. Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 4 yearsFebruary 28, 2020 ago
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NSX

Manually removing faulty NSX-T Transport Nodes

Background In this post I want to share with you the possibilities to remove problematic ESXi based Transport Nodes running NSX-T 2.4+, 3.x and 4.x manually from NSX Manager. Especially including the nodes NSX configuration and accompanying VIBs. To be Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 4 yearsJanuary 29, 2020 ago
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Cloud Director

vCloud Director Identity and Access Management – Part 1

(Update 4-2-2020: Rights Bundles section added) (Update 29-3-2020: Org VDC section added) Recently I had a meeting with a customer to discuss the possibilities within vCloud Director (vCD) to implement a suitable Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution. IAM Solutions Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 4 yearsDecember 3, 2019 ago
systemd
Linux

Linux interface config with systemd

Last week I was deploying a Debian 9 (Stretch) based Linux OVA from the Bitnami catalog. One of the first things to do after a deployment is to replace the DHCP assigned IP address with a static one. Deploying the Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 4 yearsNovember 21, 2019 ago
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Certification

vSAN 2019 Specialist exam review

This VMworld (2019 EU), I went for the vSAN Specialist 2019 exam (5V0-21.19) and associated badge. My current (2017 version) badge recently got retired so it was time for an update. The badge itself is only issued if you are Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 4 yearsNovember 18, 2019 ago

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