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VCD Three persona (reseller level)

  • Efect on NSX-T
  • API calls
  • UI changes

NSX-T bridging without NSX-T managers

  • Is briding failing when the NSX-T managers are not available?

VMware port best practice

  • Ephemeral vs Static Binding

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1022312

Docker-swarm overlay

Not running because of VMware NSX Port https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43933143/docker-swarm-overlay-network-is-not-working-for-containers-in-different-hosts

VMware vCloud Director - Deploying without reading

  • Two nics?
    • 1 for all traffic
    • 1 for DB replication https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-Director/10.4/VMware-Cloud-Director-Install-Configure-Upgrade-Guide/GUID-3BBE2901-6252-4DB7-970F-94901E7453D2.html
  • Error 1: No search domain
  • Error 2: No reverse DNS
    • Host records (A) need to be created for VCD http and VCD VMRC incl reverse lookup
    • All other DNS records for vCenter, ESXi hosts and NSX
  • Error 3: Anything else?

VMware vCloud Director - Adding NSX-T mananager just doesn’t work

  • Deployment of NSX manager and impact SSL certificate
  • NSX-manager SSL certificate and impoved SSL check VCD
  • Fix

How to: Fix Dell iDRAC 8 ‘No Signal’

To read:

Change the IP of a VMware vSAN node

Stupid idea, if done the wrong way, Sort of lessons learned! Don’t do it, but we’re going to do it anyway!

Change the IP-address via the GUI and all will stop working! Would be better to re-ip by adding a vmk port and switch over traffic https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/76162

But we’re going to break it and learn! Change the IP-address via vCenter (you might want to shutdown some import VMs first?)

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esxcli vsan cluster get
esxcli vsan network list
esxcli vsan health summary list
esxcli vsan debug object health summary get

https://developer.vmware.com/docs/6676/vsphere-command-line-interface-reference/doc/esxcli_vsan.html

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2150303

Reboot some VMs via esxcli https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1038043

This KB was needed because vCenter didn’t got shutdown https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2081464

More Ideas

  • VMware, VyOS migrating from many LAN NIC’s to trunk
  • VMware vSphere Mobile Client
  • VMware NSX, what is it and why do I post about it?
  • Explaining IP-addresses and ranges
  • What is ‘Defence in Depth’?
  • VyOS ECMP S2S with home
  • Rebuild Site-to-Site to GRE with IPSEC
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