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Why I’m looking forward to VMworld 2021 (and why you should too!)
Truth be told, I’m a bit tired of online virtual events. OK, some events (and especially speakers) nailed it. They managed to bring better user engagement and interaction, but a lot of the online events I attended in the past 18 or so months (or presented at) didn’t do too well in this area. I ...
Deploying NSX Advanced Load Balancer (aka Avi) in my homelab
VMware acquired Avi Networks in the summer of 2019 to add Software-Defined ADC (Application Distribution Controller) capabilities to their Virtual Cloud Network portfolio. That’s a fancy way of saying they bought the most awesome load balancing, WAF and container ingress traffic management solution in the market. VMware rebranded Avi Networks Load Balancer to VMware NSX ...
Video tutorial: Adding High Availability to my NSX-T Routing Topology
In my previous video and blogpost, I explained how I set up a fully nested vSphere 7 homelab with NSX-T. In this video tutorial, I’m adding a second VyOS appliance and a second NSX-T Edge Node to my homelab. The video covers setting up the proper Edge Uplink profiles, configuring the Edge Nodes, and finally ...
Video tutorial: NSX-T Logical Networking Basics
In my previous video and blogpost, I explained how I set up a fully nested vSphere 7 homelab with NSX-T. Now I want to go back to basics with NSX-T Logical Networking. There is so much exciting content out there on some of the most advanced use cases for NSX-T and last week I realized, ...
Video walkthrough: Setting up NSX-T in a Nested Homelab
In my previous video and blogpost, I explained how I set up a fully nested vSphere 7 homelab in a single box. This new video gives a basic explanation about how I set up NSX-T in a nested homelab: Topics covered in the video Transport Zones Uplink Profiles Transport Node Profiles ESXi Transport Nodes Edge ...
My Favourite VMworld 2020 Sessions
With roughly two weeks to go, VMworld 2020 is just around the corner. The number of sessions available in the catalog is HUGE! If I just look at the number of sessions available with the general (free!) pass … wow! The schedule builder allows you to easily search and filter through the catalog. All sessions ...
VMworld 2020 – Turning a negative in a positive
Five reasons why I’m looking forward to VMworld 2020 Digital Edition I’m not going to do a big introduction and talk about the pandemic to explain why VMworld 2020 will be a digital online event. If you’re reading this blogpost, I’m guessing you already know: September 29th – October 1st 2020 will go in the ...
Detailed write-up on my VMware vSphere 7 nested homelab networking setup
I have been getting quite a few inquiries about my fully nested VMware homelab setup. People seem to be struggling mostly with setting up the networking bits. I describe the overall topology in this blogpost but this blogpost will contain a lot more details on the network configuration. I also made a couple of changes, ...
VMware NVME PCIE Driver Missing on ESXi 7.0 after upgrade from 6.7 U3 on SuperMicro 5028D-TN4T (Updated)
Update April 15th 2020: William Lam reached out and asked me to provide the vm-support log bundle. Apparently, I incorrectly used the esxcli command to upgrade my host. Thanks to William, I found out a bunch of other VIBs were also not properly upgraded yet. If you are doing a full upgrade, make sure you ...