How to Troubleshoot vSphere Private VLANs – PVLANs
What is a PVLAN ? Private VLANs or PVLANs provide layer 2 isolation between ports/devices in the same broadcast domain. There are three types of private VLAN ports (or in…
What is a PVLAN ? Private VLANs or PVLANs provide layer 2 isolation between ports/devices in the same broadcast domain. There are three types of private VLAN ports (or in…
I’ve written about Storage IO Control previously, when covering the VCAP5-DCA objectives. I wanted to revisit the topic as part of my preparations for the design certification. So to start,…
As stated in the NSX Administration Guide, the NSX Load Balancer enables network traffic to follow multiple paths to a specific destination. This load distribution is transparent to end users.…
In the course of studying for the VCAP5-DCA, I’ve been using ESXCLI a lot. The namespace I’ve spent the most time with is, unsurprisingly, storage. There are a lot of…
One task that crops up often when working with ESXi host storage from the command line is how to match up VMFS datastores to the storage device they live on.…
I’ve started this post as a way to track any ESXi CLI tips, tricks/shortcuts that I think may be useful for the VCAP-DCA exam, though should also be of use…
The VIFS tool, available on vMA or vCLI, allows you to perform remote file management operations on ESXi hosts. I’ve written previously about using the vMA to manage hosts and…
I’ve been spending a fair bit of time recently looking at, and writing about, Auto Deploy as part of my VCAP5-DCA preparations. Having written the following posts: AutoDeploy Stateless Caching…
Following on from writing about the VCAP5-DCA objectives, I intend to cover a few scenarios based on some of those objectives, particularly those that I feel the need to go…
When you install ESXi, a default certificate for the host is generated. This is a ‘self-signed’ certificate and as such will not be trusted by default in it’s communications with…
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