Time synchronization is always very critical on ESXi and normally setting up the NTP servers is enough pretty much for any environment. But when it comes to nested environments I normally suspend the vESXi as a result the time freeze. Now, after the vESXi is resumed you need to fix the time manually using the vSphere Client and […]
Read More →Additional interfaces on vCenter 5.5 Appliance
The problem Have you ever needed to add additional interfaces to your vCenter Server Appliance? Well I have 🙂 A simple use case? I needed two additional vNICs to talk to their respective subnets without constantly crossing the L3 router.
Read More →What’s new whitepapers vSphere 6
Following the big VMware announcement of Feb the 2nd 2015, I’m here collecting some very useful white papers (wp). What’s new vSphere 6 Platform What’s new VSAN 6.0 What’s new vSOM 6.0 (vSphere Operations Management) What’s new VMware Horizon View & NVIDIA GRID vCPU VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO)
Read More →NSX for Newbies – Part 5: Configure Logical Switch Networks
A logical switch is a distributed port group on a distributed switch. So why logical ? Because it gets a unique VNI (VXLAN Network Identifier) to overlays the L2 network. On the post Part 4: Preparing for Virtual Networking we saw that one of the key step was to “join” the hosts (or cluster) to the same transport […]
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