I have come across a few instances recently where a couple customers want to take advantage of VMware VSAN and NSX together. One of them already had VSAN running in their environment and now want to take advantage of NSX. The second is literally doing a complete server/storage refresh and want a brand new deployment … Continue reading Designing for VSAN & NSX Integration
So I have upgraded most of my environment to the latest and greatest and now it is time to upgrade the final pieces....ESXi & VSAN. All of my ESXi hosts are running ESX 6.0 U2 and need to be upgraded in order to take advantage of the latest vSphere 6.5 features. In my previous post … Continue reading Upgrading ESXi & VSAN 6.5
Many of you have either heard of or actually used the Ruby vSphere Console (RVC) for administering VSAN. The commands 'esxcli' and 'vdq' are very useful for managing or troubleshooting VSAN directly on an ESXi host. RVC is accessed on the vCenter Server. If you are using the VCSA (appliance-based) version of vCenter you simply … Continue reading Managing VSAN 6.5 with the Ruby vSphere Console (RVC)
I am really excited about VSAN 6.5 and what it brings to the table and like some of you out there we all want to get our hands on it. So I decided to build a VSAN 6.5 cluster running on nested ESXi. Nested ESXi is not supported by VMware so make sure you are … Continue reading All-Flash VSAN 6.5 on Nested ESXi
So you have deployed VMware NSX into your lab or Production and you may be thinking to yourself "okay now what?" The next step you want to take is to validate your installation to ensure everything is running correctly. This task can be somewhat daunting if you are new to NSX and are not familiar … Continue reading Validate your NSX Installation
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