I recently had the need to increase the log retention for the vmware.log file. By default, 6 versions (or rotations) of the VMware.log file are available. A new vmware.log file…
This post is the last part of my series of posts looking at the VCP-NV objectives. This one will look at some of the tools and commands you can use…
This post will look at some of the ways in which you can monitor a NSX implementation, along with some of the features NSX provides to help you. As with…
I ran into this issue today for the first time. When attempting to connect PowerCLI to an ESXi 5 host, I received the following error stating: “Could not connect using…
There are a lot of components in an NSX implementation, so as a consequence there are a lot of places where you can set up logging for the various parts…
This article talks about how to deploy a VMware vCenter Server appliance. I’ve been updating my home lab recently, to have a proper look at vSphere 6. I’ve generally used…
NSX has a lot of moving parts, and a lot of time and effort goes into its configuration, so fortunately it also makes it easy to backup and restore that…
This will be a quick post will look at some of the options for allowing access to manage NSX deployments. When the NSX manager is registered with a vCenter, the…
Service composer is a tool built into NSX which allows security policies to be built. These policies can be assigned to groups of virtual machines, and new virtual machines will…
I’ve created some ESXTOP flashcards previously, which had some positive feedback, so in the same vein, this post will look at presenting some of the vSphere 6 ESXi configuration maximums…