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  • Learn VMwareCloudFoundation – Part01

    Starting a series of posts on Learning VMware Cloud Foundation , here is the first in the series… Basically, it brings together vSphere, VSAN, and NSX into the next generation…

  • Storage Type Comparison

    This is for my beginner friends in vSphere… vSphere Features Supported by Storage Type: Happy learning 🙂  

  • NSX Multi-Site L2 Extension option Comparison

    Shared by one of my colleague , really helpful. Happy Learning 🙂  

  • VMware vExpert 2017

    Just received a notification that i have been awarded with the VMware vExpert for 2017. it is the second consecutive year (2016-2017) I was awarded with the title. List can…

  • NSX6.3 – Finally NSX supports vSphere 6.5

    VMware released both NSX for vSphere 6.3.o as well as vCenter 6.5a and ESXi 6.5a , we must ensure that before upgrade your NSX environment to 6.3 you would need…

  • VMware NSX for vSphere 6.2.5 Released

    VMware has released NSX for vSphere 6.2.5, this is a maintenance release that contains the bug fixes The 6.2.5 release is a bugfix release that addresses a loss of network connectivity…

  • Create VM Using PowerCli and an XML File

    To create a VM from a XML file , first we have to create a xml file with the settings for the VM. I created a very basic on that…

  • QoS Tagging and Traffic Filtering on vDS

    There are two types of QoS Marking/Tagging common in networking are 802.1p (COS) applied on Ethernet(Layer 2) packets and Differentiated Service Code Point (DSCP) Marking applied on IP packets. The…

  • Custom TCP/IP Stacks

    vSphere at 5.1 and earlier, there was a single TCP/IP stack which was being used by all the different types of network traffics. This meant that management, virtual machine (VM)…

  • Learn NSX – Part-13 (Configure OSPF for DLR)

    Configuring OSPF on a logical router enables VM connectivity across logical routers and from logical routers to edge services gateways (ESGs). OSPF routing policies provide a dynamic process of traffic…

  • VMFS 6

    New vSphere 6 .5  has been release with New File system after VMFS 5 released in 2011. Good news is that VMFS6 supports 512 Devices and 2048 Paths. In previous versions…

  • VMware vSphere Replication 6.5 released with 5 minute RPO

    I was going through the release notes of vSphere Replication 6.5 and really surprised to see the RPO of this new release…and thought of worth sharing: VMware vSphere Replication 6.5…

  • Creating IP Sets with NSX API Calls using PowerShell

    Fed days back one of my close friend working with a customer , whose NSX environment is  cross–vCenter NSX environment , because of this they have to create IP sets…

  • Learn NSX – Part-12 (Create NSX Edge Services Gateway)

    Each NSX Edge virtual appliance can have a total of 10 uplink and internal network interfaces.Overlapping IP addresses are not allowed for internal interfaces, and overlapping subnets are not allowed…

  • VM Component Protection (VMCP)

    vSphere 6.0 has a powerful  feature as a part of vSphere HA called VM Component Protection (VMCP). VMCP protects virtual machines from storage related events, specifically Permanent Device Loss (PDL) and…

  • Storage Protocol Comparison

    Many of my friends was looking for something easy to understand Storage  Protocol Comparison , here is what i had created some time back for my reference:   iSCSI NFS…

  • Learn NSX – Part-11 (Create Distributed Logical Router)

    In the Previous post, We have discussed about creating logical switches and now workloads have L2 adjacency across IP subnets with the help of VXLAN. In this post, we are…

  • vCenter 6.5 HA Architecture Overview

    A vCenter HA cluster consists of three vCenter Server Appliance instances. The first instance, initially used as the Active node and is cloned twice to a Passive node and to…

  • VMware vCenter Appliance (VCSA) 6.5 Now Running on PhotonOS

    From vSphere 5.5 the VCSA was running on SLES, while the latest version of VCSA was running on SLES 11 but Starting with vSphere 6.5, the vCenter Server Appliance is…

  • What’s New in vSphere 6.5?

    Guys , Today VMware announced vSphere 6.5, here is the new feature list and enhancements… Features which really excites me are as below: Scale Enhancements – New configuration maximums to support…