Some Background The fact that you have ended up reading this Blog Post, most probably means you are very aware of what the Policy API is, how cool and flexible it is, how you can use a declarative approach to define things and just run one API call to create… Continue reading
OK, this post will be a simple one. All I want to show is the exact API code with the body you can send to NSX manager to create Network Segments (aka Logical Switches). This information is, of course, available in the NSX-T API guide but to be absolutely honest,… Continue reading
This week while doing the normal check of the environment I came to run into a warning on the VCSA 6.5 stating: PostgresSQL Service Health Alarm This was the first time I saw this kind of warning on the environment. After logging in to the vSphere Appliance Managment I could… Continue reading
As you may already know, after deployment of NSX-T Manager, users are stuck with a single built-in admin user. This might be OK for a lab environment, but in any size of production deployment this is major limitation/problem. In order to have some sort of RBAC, NSX-T Manager requires usage… Continue reading
We are using AppVolumes Manager on several environments together with Horizon View. When we were deploying the first AppVolume Manager I was asked to provide permissions for AppVolume Manager to local ESXi hosts to avoid using root permissions. There are guides which you can use to setup all required permissions… Continue reading
How to reduce the overhead of managing multiple Desktop Pools under Horizon? This is the question that everyone asks when they have multiple Desktop Pools serving multiple customers and one Golden Image for each of them. Answer to this question is very simple, multiple snapshots on the same Golden Image.… Continue reading
Intro To clarify, vCenter HA over Layer 3 means that vCenter Active, Passive and Witness nodes will be running on different subnets. And I am not talking about the HA network, I am taking about the Management network. This of course means that you will need to rewrite your DNS… Continue reading
Special thanks to Jack Cherkas(@jackcherkas) for helping with this blog. The story So let me cover the scope here:1. The Customer has a Stretched Cross-Site environment, with dedicated Management and Edge clusters in each site, and a Stretched vSAN cluster for Compute (customer workloads).2. There is also a third site,… Continue reading
It has been over two years since I blogged about APD handling bug which I discovered, during partial storage outage in my environment. All path down (APD) handling and VMware Component Protection (VMCP) is not working when you have paths physically connected, but they are not able to serve any… Continue reading
I started another round of the ESXi patching recently (because of this), when I experienced an unpleasant issue. Some of my clusters failed to remediate using update manager. Hosts failed to enter maintenance mode with the following message: Current progress of remediation: 0 hosts completed successfully, 0 hosts completed with… Continue reading
