Virtualisation | Cloud | Strategy
Following on the migration theme just recently, I’ve had a lot of queries over the past month related to VMware HCX licensing, so thought I’d pull this post together for reference. Remind me what is HCX again? VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension (HCX), in its own words is: “an application mobility platform, simplifies application migration, rebalances […]
IDS and IPS in NSX-T IDS/IPS IDS stands for Intrusion Detection System and IPS stands for Intrusion Prevention System. It is what is says on the tin, it protects your environment from an attack. IDS is a system that monitors the traffic in case of an attack and In the event of this IPS will […]
NSX-T Federation Vs Multisite So we’ve all heard of NSX-T and the buzz surrounding Federation, what are the benefits of it and how does it relate to multisite. These are some of the questions I am going to try and answer. MultiSite From NSX-T 2.5 VMware introduced Multisite. In essence this is where you can […]
NSX-T password expired SDDC Manager rotation fails With VMware Cloud Foundation password management of SDDC components is handed off to the SDDC manager. The SDDC manager can rotate the passwords for VMware components such as ESXi, Virtual Centre and NSX-T. A very useful feature and a great way. of keeping admin and root accounts secure […]
Workload Management NSX-T 3 – Unable to access CLI tool download page When deploying workload management into your vSphere infrastructure with NSX-T 3 you may encounter an issue where it is not possible to access the vSphere hosted site to download the kubectl-vsphere binary. The fix for this issue is documented in this VMware Cloud […]
VMware Cloud Foundation – Can’t deploy vRealize as no AVN is available For reasons entirely of my own making when I deployed my current lab, I did not create the VCF AVN networks during deployment. This wasn’t a problem at the time as I was focused on vSphere with kubernetes. However, I did come to […]