PowerShell Friday: Configuring vSphere MTU Size
Several vSphere components can benefit from using a larger network frame size (MTU) than the regular size of 1500 bytes. vMotion, Storage: NFS, iSCSI and VSAN are examples that would gain some performance by increasing the frame size. In most cases, you would configure the…
VMware NSX PowerShell Extension Open Sourced
VMware NSX has an open API and it’s pretty easy to consume. PowerShell is the same way; it’s easy to learn and easy to extend. This week, Anthony Burke and Nick Bradford released a PowerShell extension called PowerNSX. As the name suggests, it’s all about…
Introducing the VMware NSX for vSphere PHP Framework
Over the last few weeks, I have been working on a VMware NSX integration with one of my existing PHP applications. This application is tied into a development process with a new testing schematic which needed to use a the NSX features to test the…
Ravello Systems: VMware NSX 6.2 Management Service Stuck in ‘Starting’
Ravello Systems offers ‘Smart Labs’ where you can run a multitude of applications in Amazon or Google Cloud, including nested ESXi Hypervisors. This opens up the possibility of replacing a home lab system, where you have noisy power guzzling servers set up at your home…
vCloud Director: Removing Network from a vApp without shutting it down
Caution: this is not supported by VMware. This is ‘this is possible’ post, not a standard procedure. Take care if you go forward. Within vCloud Director, you can dynamically add networks to vApps and virtual machines, just as within vSphere. Moving the network of a…
Veeam PowerShell: Get Backup Job Storage Size
Veeam Backup & Replication has a pretty extensive PowerShell extension, added to the Veeam Backup & Replication Management server by default. You can do a lot of cool stuff with it, ranging from just getting information about backup jobs to configuring new backup jobs and…
VMware Samples Exchange goes into beta
When searching for scripts that relate to VMware (PowerCLI, Perl VILib, etc), you usually end up on a blog or a forum post somewhere, probably pointing towards GitHub for an example script. VMware themselves didn’t have a proper place for example scripts, like most vendors…
The Future of Virtual Networking from VMworld – Part 2
Following up on my post The Future of Virtual Networking from VMworld – Part 1 (read that before starting this one), I’m going to continue rambling on about some of the awesome future networking ideas floating around during VMworld. Disclaimer: this post is also based…
The Future of Virtual Networking from VMworld – Part 1
VMworld Europe took place in Barcelona last week and my experience was mostly centered around NSX. A few technical sessions and a lot of meetings later, I have been given an insight into the future of virtual networking and it’s awesome! In a mini series…
vCloud NFV Kick-starts Telco Providers
During VMworld Europe 2015, VMware announced a new program under their vCloud naming, called vCloud NFV (Network Function Virtualization). What is vCloud NFV? vCloud NFV is essentially a bundle with the best of VMware targeted to telecom/service providers (or any NFV company) to kickstart them…
VMworld TV Daily wrap-up Wednesday
As always Jeremy van Doorn and Eric Sloof did a wrap-up of all the action at VMworld with the VMworld TV Daily wrap-up. If you’re unable to join VMworld, or want to know what you missed this is a good way to catch up and make…
VMware NSX 6.2: Support for Multiple vCenters
VMware NSX 6.2 dropped yesterday with some pretty awesome features. I’ll be going through most features in separate posts and this one is for the Cross-vCenter feature. Before 6.2, the NSX Manager and vCenter had a one to one relationship, making certain dual datacenter designs…
Manually preparing ESXi hosts for VMware NSX
Usually when installing VMware NSX, the Update Manager takes care of ESXi host preparation. It takes a few VIB packages from the NSX Manager and pushes those to the ESXi hosts to prepare them for VXLAN, the distributed firewall and the distributed router. It can…
Integrating VMware NSX with VMware vRealize Log Insight
VMware vRealize Log Insight is a log analyser with capabilities to receive logs from regular syslog (so every device that can send syslog over the network) and from agents for Windows and Linux. Mostly every device can be configured to send logs to it and…
Removing VMware Data Security after vShield to NSX upgrade
An existing vShield environment can be upgraded to a full NSX environment, as described in my VCIX post “Upgrade VMware NSX Components”. All vShield components can be upgraded, except for one; vShield Data Security. The documentation states: NSX Data Security does not support a direct…