Once and a while ESXi needs to be installed on a device of which the drivers (NIC / Storage) are not built into the ISO installer (yet). In my case it’s needed for the vExpert homelab Maxtang NUC device. This device has a Realtek PCIe NIC’s not supported by ESXi Read more…
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 deployment with updated parameters. This prevents redeploying the physical servers Read more…
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 input parameters in the deployment parameters workbook. So it worked Read more…
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“. The previous post describes how systemd can be configured for Read more…
In this IPv6 series I’d like to tell you about my “journey” to implement the protocol at home and in the lab. This part explains how IPv6 can be used with NSX-T in the datacenter. Expect the creation and / or configuration of T0 and T1 routers, Uplink configuration, Static Read more…
In this IPv6 series I’d like to tell you about my “journey” to implement the protocol. I already had some knowledge of it, but not extensively. As a first step IPv6 is implemented at home. The plan is to work my way back from home to my lab in the Read more…
In this IPv6 series I’d like to tell you about my “journey” to implement the protocol. I already had some knowledge of it, but not extensively. As a first step I implemented it at home. The plan is to work my way back from home to my lab in the Read more…
In this IPv6 series I’d like to tell you about my “journey” to implement the protocol. I already had some knowledge of it, but not extensively. As a first step I implemented it at home. The plan is to work my way back from home to my lab in the Read more…
Not due to shortages in IPv4 address, because that’s relative (looking at the 4 million IPv4 addresses Amazon bought this year from AR|DC‘s AMPRNet), but more due to personal interest and being able to equip all your devices with public IP’s (and not having to use NAT masquerading) is interesting. Read more…
The SSD tier in my lab became quite full in the beginning of this year, so the search began for some expansion. All 8 hot-swap slots in my single node lab server are occupied so, it needed to be an NVMe drive due to slot availability but mainly because of Read more…