IT compliance is a critical aspect of modern business as it refers to the adherence to policies, regulations, and government laws protecting IT systems and processes. IT compliance ensures businesses and organizations operate under strict security requirements, guidelines, and industry best practices for data protection and governance. IT business leaders, CIOs/CTOs/CISOs, MSPs, system administrators, and [...]
In this How to fix vSAN unmounted disks, I will talk about the vSAN mount and unmount disks and how to fix and rebuild the vSAN without losing any data. One vSAN lab had an issue with some of the vSAN Disks this week, with many objects with warnings and some disks in an unhealthy [...]
In this What is VMware HCX, and how does it work, I will provide some simple explanations about HCX, the type of migrations scenarios, and how HCX can help with workloads migrations. VMware HCX (formerly known as Hybrid Cloud Extension and NSX Hybrid Connect) is a massively scalable hypervisor-based supercomputing platform, delivered as an on-demand [...]
Today I need to change my DNS settings in my homelab, so I need to change the DNS in most of my implementations and on my VCF. In this How to change DNS in VMware SDDC Manager with API, I will explain how to do this quickly with API that will change the DNS in [...]
Today I return to my HCX Series to try to complete HCX Series in the following weeks. In this third HCX – How to create Service Mesh and connect sites about HCX Series blog post, I will discuss how to create the HCX Service Mesh and connect sites. In the previous HCX blog post, HCX [...]
In this error, HCX - Network Uplink Portgroup doesn't have sufficient free IPs when trying to deploy the Service Mesh, which means there are not enough free IPs in the Network Profiles for the Uplink network. In this case, was for Uplink and also Management Network. How to fix this error? First, we must go [...]
When creating an HCX Service Mesh, we can get this error, HCX - Unable to Create Service Mesh - NSX-T Only Overlay Transport Zone are supported. This error means you are trying to use a vCenter vDS for your HCX Extended Network profile in the Compute Profile when using an NSX-T in your destination, which is [...]
In HCX Service Mesh, when we get the error HCX - IX appliance tunnel down - Service Mesh Service Pipeline status is down most of the time regarding the WAN appliance that is not working correctly. We see Service Mesh Appliances with errors and not running. And the IX-WAN appliance is without any service running. [...]
This year is the 25th VMw anniversary, and it has been a great ride since then. VMware changed the world in the Virtualization area, and in 25 years of VMware what was the impact on your career? VMware, a company founded in 1998, has grown into a leading global enterprise that has revolutionized virtual IT [...]
The vCenter crash was initiated by a network storage switch failure that affected all the iSCSI LUNs in my home lab. The failure occurred as a result of changes I made to the switch's VLAN capacity, which necessitated a reboot. I approved the reboot request without thinking that I had my VMs running. The Switch [...]
