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Continue reading →: LACP, Yeah You Know MeTraditionally when configuring vCenter and ESXi, most customers go the default networking route with Management, vMotion, and vSAN Port Groups sitting on a vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS). Usually, I see customers configure for active/active or active/standby. When using active/standby I usually see Management and vMotion with Uplink1 active and Uplink2…
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Continue reading →: Deploying vRealize Suite in VCF 4.x with VLAN-Backed Networks
When deploying VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) I can’t recommend enough that you deploy with BGP/AVNs. This will make your life easier in the future when deploying the vRealize Suite as well as making deployment and administration easier for Tanzu. What happens though if you can’t get your network team to…
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Continue reading →: VCF 4.x Offline Bundle TransferI recently have had to do offline bundle transfers to bring updates into dark sites that could not pull the updates down automatically through SDDC Manager. One thing to note is that I am doing the steps on a Windows box and some of the commands might change slightly if…
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Continue reading →: VCF Lab Constructor (VLC), used differently.
It has been a long time since I posted anything new, I will be looking to get back on top of posting things consistently for 2021. I have been using VLC for almost a year now and it has come a long way since its humble beginnings. I have deployed…
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Continue reading →: LSI MegaRAID SAS 3108 – Cisco 12G SAS Raid – VSAN JBODThe other day I decided to switch out my disk that I was using for VSAN caching. I was doing some testing with an NVME, but now had to back it down to a SAS SSD. The disk I used had been used previously in a different system, so it…
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Continue reading →: VSAN on Cisco C240-M3 with LSI MegaRAID SAS 9271-iIn the past I have configured a LSI MegaRAID SAS 3108 – Cisco 12G SAS Raid controller with 1GB FBWC module. When I set that up, I just passed through control to VMware. The MegaRAID SAS 9271-I is different; here is how I set them up. I used VMware KB2111266…
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Continue reading →: Storage Policy Based Management WinsHey everyone, it’s my first VSAN post! For the past few months I have been building out VSAN on a few test environments. One of them is what I call a Frankenstein cluster. It consists of four Cisco C series hosts with four SSD for Caching and 16 SSD for…
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Continue reading →: Creating Cisco UCS port channels and then assigning a VLAN
In my new position I am learning a lot about UCS. Today I had to create a port channel for both A and B fabrics and then assign a VLAN to both. Log into Cisco Manager. Click on the LAN tab and then Plus sign next to Fabric A. Right…
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Continue reading →: VMK0 MAC Change
I ran into an issue the other day in a UCS blade system where all of the VMK0 had the same MAC addresses. See VMware KB https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1031111 I had to remove the vmk0 port group (removes connectivity) and then I had to add this back through a KVM connection to…
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Continue reading →: Storage vMotion Folder Rename
I ran into a project the other day where the VM names in vCenter did not match up with the Windows hostname of the VM. The VMware administrator was fixing this by shutting down the orignal machine and then cloning it. The problem is that he then would have to…
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