Integration with third-party Partner Tools and Systems using NSX REST API REST API is exposed by NSX Manager NSX API Guide 6.2 See Chapter 1 NSX API Guide 6.3 Consumed by Cloud management platforms Service management portals Internal workflow As …
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Differentiate Logical and Physical Topologies Chapter 3 of Design Guide Physical Network topology Hosts Spine and leaf Oversubscription of uplinks from top of rack to spine Link redundancy Logical How signals on physical media are passing along the network …
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Here are some pretty good resources for either configuration and deployment or practice for studying VMware. VMware Guides for Design and Implementation NSX Installation Guide v6.2 Cross-vCenter Installation Guide NSX Administration Guide NSX Upgrade Guide NSX Troubleshooting Guide NSX …
Keep in mind, these are simply my reference notes that I used in conjunction with the official VCP6-NV course and the official product guides from VMware. For this Id stress taking a look at chapter 3 and 5 of the …
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Challenges with Physical Network Implementations (See NSX Design Guide 6.2) Lack of vlans, for instance in the enterprises environment, ie limitation of 4096 Edge hair-pinning of traffic with firewalls NSX scalability You need long distance vmotion but faces the need …
Ive been getting requests on gathering information from some very high utilization customer clusters. So my first thought was to deploy VMware’s product which of course is better equipped to ascertain logging information as it is from the same family. …
I had a customer state that they were having issues with the vms running on a particular host. First glance at vCenter and I saw the warning “no more space for redo logs” in recent tasks. I had seen similar …
I had been running into issues with getting OS 10.13 running from a new virtual machine on ESXi. Running a test today we noted that upgrading from any older version (I only tried it with 10.11 and 10.12) I was …
There are times when the need to remove the vSphere replication appliance arise. In one case I ran into, myself, and VMware were unable to get a replication appliance back in running order, and the easiest thing to do at …
With the advent of the 6.5 vSphere platform comes some much needed/requested features. The new built in ability to encrypt virtual machines at the hypervisor level is for sure a major plus towards the hardening of security. VMWare has noted a few …
