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Cloud Foundation: Update SDDC bring-up parameters

While troubleshooting of a failed SDDC Manager deploy task in Cloud Foundation 4.4 together with VMware support, the engineer showed a way to update the SDDC bring-up parameters. This can be very helpful because it can restart a failed SDDC deployment with updated parameters. This prevents redeploying the physical servers Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 3 monthsMarch 28, 2022 ago
Cloud Foundation

Cloud Foundation: Deploy of SDDC Manager failed during bring-up

Recently I moved to the latest Cloud Foundation version (v4.4) in a lab environment that I often re-deploy. I noticed that during the Cloud Builder bring-up phase the deploy of the SDDC managed failed ever since, while using the same input parameters in the deployment parameters workbook. So it worked Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 4 monthsMarch 16, 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, 4 monthsMarch 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, 5 monthsFebruary 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, 5 monthsFebruary 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, 6 monthsJanuary 19, 2022 ago
Certification

VMware NSX-T Data Center 3.1 Security exam guide

After attending VMware EMPOWER earlier this year, I won a voucher for a free exam (thanks EMPOWER team!). I chose the NSX-T 3.1 Data Center Security exam because of personal interest and exciting security features NSX offers. While preparing for the exam I gathered a list of study materials I Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 9 monthsOctober 14, 2021 ago
Homelab

IPv6 Series: Part 5 – IPv6 with NSX-T

In this IPv6 series I’d like to tell you about my “journey” to implement the protocol at home and in the lab. This part explains how IPv6 can be used with NSX-T in the datacenter. Expect the creation and / or configuration of T0 and T1 routers, Uplink configuration, Static Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 1 yearJune 16, 2021 ago
Networking

NSX-T: IPv6 Autoconfiguration explained

Today’s NSX-T topic is about automatically configuring hosts with IPv6 addresses. During the writing of my IPv6 series, I wondered what options are available in NSX-T and which use-cases they serve. The full list on IPv6 posts can be found here: IPv6 posts. In a IPv4 network, DHCP is used Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 1 yearJune 1, 2021 ago
NSX-T Highlights
Networking

NSX-T Tidbits: IPv6 feature support

In this part of the NSX-T tidbits series, it’s about the current IPv6 support. During the writing of my IPv6 series, I needed to know which features are currently support in the current (3.1) version and found out there isn’t a good overview of it. After digging into blog posts Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 1 yearMay 14, 2021 ago

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