This is just a quick blogpost on a small issue I encountered during a VMware Validated Design (VVD) deployment. As part of the VVD deployment, all ESXi hosts need to be added to Active Directory. This allows for Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) over the ESXi hosts.. Following the planning and preparation guidelines, the customer nicely ...
Introduction I am currently deploying a VMware Validated Design for SDDC at a customer, with the addition of vRealize Network Insight. This blogpost explains how to use the Certificate Generation Utility for VMware Validated Design for Software-Defined Data Center (CertGenVVD utility) to replace the default SSL certificate of the vRNI Platform Appliance. CertGenVVD is a command-line utility ...
Nested homelab and NSX-T I recently published a blogpost about my fully nested VMware homelab.After completing a beta NSX-T Install, Configure and Manage course, I was keen on adding NSX-T to the mix. The beauty of NSX-T is that it is not hard coupled to vCenter Server. By simply adding another (nested) ESXi host to ...
Conceptual, RCARs and AMPRS … What? Today I gave a very quick crash course on the conceptual design portion of a VMware design, RCARs and AMPRs to a couple of co-workers at ITQ who are taking a VCAP exam on VMware EMPOWER next week.I decided to do a blogpost on this topic. So if you ...
DHPA TechFest 2018 I was invited to talk at the DHPA TechFest 2018. The DHPA foundation is a collaboration between market-leading hosting and cloud providers in The Netherlands. DHPA TechFest is not your regular IT event. It is called an IT festival by the organization with the tagline “work hard, play hard”. Besides several technical ...
Nested homelab introduction I was chatting with someone the other week about homelab setups. The old debate of running on physical hosts vs. nested came up. I am running a completely nested homelab with stretched vSAN, NSX-v, et cetera and as a follow-up to that conversation I was having, I decided to do a short ...
VCAP6.5-DCV Design … finally This morning, I finally got around to taking the VMware Certified Advanced Professional 6.5 Data Center Virtualization (VCAP6.5-DCV) Design exam. I have been planning this exam and blogging [1, 2] about preparing for it for quite a while now. Due to all sort of planning issues I kept postponing the exam. ...
NSX DFW Enable TCP Strict Today, I finally had some time to dive a bit deeper into the 6.4.0 release of NSX for vSphere. When I was configuring the Distributed Firewall, I noticed a setting called ‘Enable TCP Strict” which I didn’t immediately recognize. After some investigation, it became clear that this setting strengthens the ...
Ever since I achieved my VCDX on vSphere (VCDX-DCV) last year, I have been contemplating about also going for VCDX on NSX (VCDX-NV). I have the prerequisite VCIX-NV accreditation and I’ve done quite a few NSX architecture projects, so when I was discussing personal goals for 2018 at ITQ, I thought to myself … why ...
What is AWS Storage Gateway AWS Storage Gateway is basically an on-premises software appliance that exposes AWS cloud storage to your local environment. You basically deploy the appliance, connect it to the AWS Storage Gateway backend service and create a File Share (S3 or Glacier backed) or Volume (EBS Snapshot backed): In this blogpost ...
