One of the typical questions when considering NSX deployments is who should be the administrator? However this is often a two horse race, between Network and Virtualization Systems Administrators. Although NSX is SDN (software defined networking), Read More …
vSphere administrators normally have two great fears, failure of Storage and failure in the network layer, as both of these can result in 100s or 1000s of virtual machines simultaneously going off line. Software defined networking such as Read More …
Network Virtualization is challenging for those of us coming from a systems admin background. In this series of posts there are lots of diagrams, so you can see the layout of hosts, network switches, controllers, Read More …
There is a KB 1032561, but in my case it wasn’t the isssue NSX deployment failed with the error: Unable to read data from the transport connection I simply redeployed with a different IP, an Read More …
NSX Controllers are resource hungry and if you are going to run 3 at a time, it adds up at 4 cpus and 4 Gb each Power off the controllers one at a time, and Read More …
Preparing a lab of nested esxi host for nsx can be a pain Beside the issues with deploying the vcsa, ( browser compatability, ephemeral dvS port, create DNS first..) which are all things that will Read More …
Controller status commands # show control-cluster status # show control-cluster connections # show control-cluster startup-nodes # show control-cluster roles # show control-cluster history # join control-cluster xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx # join control-cluster xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx force # show status Read More …