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FortiGate support overview for vSphere

Many enterprises and service providers use Fortinet products like FortiGate, often running them as a VM’s. If running them virtually on vSphere, what are the current supported versions? FortiOS supported vSphere versions The vSphere 8 support status for FortiGate appliances in VM factor (including the pay-as-you-go variant) was until recently Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 1 monthAugust 29, 2023 ago
Homelab

Create a dual-stack DMZ with Ubiquity EdgeRouter

Due to planned maintenance, I needed to temporary move the blog to my home network to prevent downtime. Hosting a public facing website without precautions, can cause threat actors to laterally move through the network. To lower the risk, the web server running the blog needed to run in a Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 1 monthAugust 21, 2023 ago
Homelab

Fixing missing NIC drivers for ESXi hosts

You may recognize this. You’ve updated your ESXi hosts via vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) or similar method, the host rebooted during remediation and… that’s it. Your host is not reachable anymore. That happened to my lab server last week, while updating it to the latest ESXi 8.0 patch release. So Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 6 monthsApril 17, 2023 ago
VMware NSX
Homelab

Deploy NSX 4.x Edge nodes on unsupported vSphere

NSX 4.0 onwards only supports vSphere 7 and later. In my homelab I’m still running ESXi 6.7 which is joined to a vCenter 8 instance. It’s because the RAID controller in my host is unsupported in ESXi 7+ and no native drivers are available. Running an older ESXi version is Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 9 monthsJanuary 11, 2023 ago
Homelab

ESXi 8 on the Maxtang NUC

My latest homelab addition is the Maxtang NX6412 NUC which was given by VMware, together with Cohesity (many thanks!) at VMware Explore EU (in the US co-sponsored by NetApp) to all vExperts who registered for the gift. After adding RAM and a SATA SSD, it was time it ran vSphere Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 10 monthsDecember 13, 2022 ago
VMware NSX
Cloud Director

Using NO SNAT rules in Cloud Director and NSX

While working with a customer to get them onboarded in a VMware NSX (NSX-T) based Cloud Director environment, a use case for NO SNAT rules presented itself that I want to share. In this case the customer has an NSX-T based Edge gateway (T1) connected to a dedicated (VRF based) Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 1 yearAugust 21, 2022 ago
Cloud Director

Cloud Director: Distributed Firewalling with NSX-T

In the beginning of 2022, I attended the “VMware Cloud Director: Advanced Networking with NSX-T Data Center” training for VCD 10.2. The training touched on a couple of topics, that are blog worthy. Let’s start with the third one in this latest Cloud Director series. Previous ones in this series Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 2 yearsMarch 7, 2022 ago
Cloud Director

Cloud Director: Comparing Data Center Group network features

In the beginning of 2022, I attended the “VMware Cloud Director: Advanced Networking with NSX-T Data Center” training for VCD 10.2. The training touched on a couple of topics, that are blog worthy. Let’s start with the next one in this latest Cloud Director series. Other posts in this series Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 2 yearsFebruary 16, 2022 ago
Cloud Director

Cloud Director tidbits: DHCP Modes with NSX-T

In the beginning of 2022, I attended the “VMware Cloud Director: Advanced Networking with NSX-T Data Center” training for VCD 10.2. The training touched on a couple of topics, that are blog worthy. Other posts in this latest Cloud Director series are: Cloud Director: Comparing Data Center Group network features Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 2 yearsFebruary 9, 2022 ago
Networking

NSX-T Tidbits: Appliance root password reset made easy

When you’ve lost the root password of your NSX-T 3.x Manager, Edge or Cloud appliance (including 2.5.2+) things have gotten a lot easier. Nowadays a password reset method is now build into the Edge, Manager and Cloud Manager appliance. In the versions before 2.5.2, it was a pretty tedious procedure Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 2 yearsJanuary 19, 2022 ago

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