I recently had an interesting discussion around design considerations (and implications) for NSX VXLAN Tunnel Endpoint (VTEP) when using DHCP for IP address allocation. Beginning with VMware Cloud Foundation 3.0 one of the external services required is a DHCP Server to provide automated IP address allocation for VXLAN tunnel endpoints (VTEPs) This is in-line with […]
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DISCLAIMER this post is based on VCF on VxRack SDDC. VCF DIY / ready-nodes might be less prescriptive in terms of constraints or have different supported configurations. When a workload domain (WLD) is provisioned in Cloud Foundation from SDDC Manager, a default VM storage policy is created and associated with the new cluster and it’s […]
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With vCloud Director for Service Providers 9.0 come a lot of new features most of which have already been greatly summarised by Tom Fojta in this article vCloud Director 9 What’s New as well as this official white paper In this article I’m focusing on the “edge gateways placement engine” a long awaited features which allows […]
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In my home lab I used the vCenter Server Appliance all the times and l due to limited resources I need to change the NSX Controller memory and cpu settings. This is not possible by default because these VMs are protected. In order to remove the protection you need to delete some entries from the […]
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