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Using NO SNAT rules in Cloud Director and NSX

While working with a customer to get them onboarded in a VMware NSX (NSX-T) based Cloud Director environment, a use case for NO SNAT rules presented itself that I want to share. In this case the customer has an NSX-T Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 9 monthsAugust 21, 2022 ago
Cloud Foundation

Cloud Foundation: Update SDDC bring-up parameters

While troubleshooting of a failed SDDC Manager deploy task in Cloud Foundation 4.4 together with VMware support, the engineer showed a way to update the SDDC bring-up parameters. This can be very helpful because it can restart a failed SDDC Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 1 yearMarch 28, 2022 ago
Cloud Foundation

Cloud Foundation: Deploy of SDDC Manager failed during bring-up

Recently I moved to the latest Cloud Foundation version (v4.4) in a lab environment that I often re-deploy. I noticed that during the Cloud Builder bring-up phase the deploy of the SDDC managed failed ever since, while using the same Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 1 yearMarch 16, 2022 ago
Cloud Director

Cloud Director: Distributed Firewalling with NSX-T

In the beginning of 2022, I attended the “VMware Cloud Director: Advanced Networking with NSX-T Data Center” training for VCD 10.2. The training touched on a couple of topics, that are blog worthy. Let’s start with the third one in Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 1 yearMarch 7, 2022 ago
Cloud Director

Cloud Director: Comparing Data Center Group network features

In the beginning of 2022, I attended the “VMware Cloud Director: Advanced Networking with NSX-T Data Center” training for VCD 10.2. The training touched on a couple of topics, that are blog worthy. Let’s start with the next one in Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 1 yearFebruary 16, 2022 ago
Cloud Director

Cloud Director tidbits: DHCP Modes with NSX-T

In the beginning of 2022, I attended the “VMware Cloud Director: Advanced Networking with NSX-T Data Center” training for VCD 10.2. The training touched on a couple of topics, that are blog worthy. Other posts in this latest Cloud Director Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 1 yearFebruary 9, 2022 ago
Networking

NSX-T Tidbits: Appliance root password reset made easy

When you’ve lost the root password of your NSX-T 3.x Manager, Edge or Cloud appliance (including 2.5.2+) things have gotten a lot easier. Nowadays a password reset method is now build into the Edge, Manager and Cloud Manager appliance. In Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 1 yearJanuary 19, 2022 ago
Microsoft

Office for Mac AutoUpdate stuck in Installing state

A constant appearing message in Word and Excel about to “Check for updates” triggered me to start updating Microsoft Office on my Mac. Normally it starts Microsoft AutoUpdate (MAU) which searches for Office updates. Now it did open the tool, Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 1 yearJanuary 10, 2022 ago
Homelab

Ubuntu gets DHCP address while static configured

One of my Raspberry Pi’s runs Ubuntu Server 20.04 (Focal) and has a static IP interface configuration using systemd. The Pi is configured in the same way as in the previous post on this topic, “Linux interface config with systemd“. Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 2 yearsOctober 26, 2021 ago
Certification

VMware NSX-T Data Center 3.1 Security exam guide

After attending VMware EMPOWER earlier this year, I won a voucher for a free exam (thanks EMPOWER team!). I chose the NSX-T 3.1 Data Center Security exam because of personal interest and exciting security features NSX offers. While preparing for Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 2 yearsOctober 14, 2021 ago

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