The power of a service like CloudPhysics continues to grow almost weekly as they add new features and Cards. Not only is it brilliant for analytics and metrics but we are now seeing CloudPhysics release cards that aim to help VMware Administrators keep track of possible security vulnerabilities in their platforms. This week they started […] Read More
NSX Bytes: Deploying vShield Endpoint with NSX Manager
I recently had to deploy a solution into our Labs that required the installation of vShield Endpoint VMs to facilitate a 3rd Party service. No worries there…but when I logged into the Lab I was faced with an updated vShield Manager instance which was now NSX Manager…Where the heck do you deploy Endpoints? Where is the […] Read More
Follow Up: vCloud 5.x IP Sub Allocation Pool Error …Fix Coming
A few months ago I wrote a quick post on a bug that existed in vCloud Director 5.1 in regards to IP Sub Allocation Pools and IP’s being marked as in use when they should be available to allocate. What this leads to is a bunch of unusable IPs…meaning that they go to waste and […] Read More
ESXi 5.x NFS IOPS Limit Bug – Latency and Performance Hit
There is another NFS bug hidden in the latest ESXi 5.x releases…while not as severe as the 5.5 Update 1 NFS Bug it’s been the cause of increased Virtual Disk Latency and Overall Poor VM performance across a couple of the environments I manage. The VMwareKB Article referencing the bug can be found here: Symptoms […] Read More
NSX Bytes: Upgrading vShield Manager with NSX Bundle Fails
This is a really quick NSX Byte..but one that could save you some head scratching when looking to upgrade your vShield Manager to the NSX Manager. If you get the following error while trying to upload the VSM to NSX Manager Upgrade Bundle: The Following error occurred: Invalid file ‘VMware-vShield-Manager-upgrade-bundle-to-NSX-6.0.4-1752381.gz’ Open up a Command Prompt […] Read More
vCloud Director 5.5 Upgrade: Database Upgrade Issues
Generally speaking upgrading the vCloud Director binaries is a pretty straight forward task. It’s a two step process where the Cell’s are upgraded first followed by some update scripts run against the vCloud database. Finally database Indexes and Statistics are updated. In the last 6-8 months I’ve worked through 1.5 -> 5.1 and recently 5.1 […] Read More
How-To: vCloud Director and Log Insight
Recently v2.0 of VMware Log Insight became GA, and I’ve been playing around with it since it’s release. Having been on the BETA of the 1.5 Version the 2.0 Version is streets ahead in terms of usability and completeness. Living day in and day out within vCloud Director I decided to look at hooking up […] Read More
NSX Bytes – Unicast Transport Zone Creation Error
One of VMware NSX’s best features is the ability to have the VXLAN Control Plane working in Unicast Mode…removing the requirement for Multicast traffic on the underlying Physical network. This is a significant step forward in that Multicast often created issues for traditional network teams and getting it retrofitted to an existing platform was often […] Read More
NSX Bytes – Controller Deployment Gotchyas
There are a lot of great posts already out there in regards to install and configuration of NSX. Rather than reinvent the wheel I’ve decided to do a series of NSX Bytes relating to a couple of gotchyas I’ve come across during the config stage. This post will focus on the NSX Controller deployment which provides […] Read More
Follow Up: The NSX Roadblock
About 7 weeks ago I wrote a post detailing my frustration at the way in which VMware’s NSX was being trickled out into the market place and the hefty caveats that where involved in getting ones hands on NSX…even for dev and test purposes…The basis of my arguement was that while I understood the general stratagy […] Read More