Intro I’ll confess I don’t recall ever patching a vCenter in this way before but since I’ve been doing design and build work now for nearly 15 years it’s not surprising that normal BAU work has eluded me. The Steps The first step before is obviously to acquire the patch to do so go to […]
Appliance (OS) root password expired
I’m in the process of upgrading my lab vCenter appliances to 6.7 U3a, part of the process is to run a pre-upgrade check, the result of which gave me the following warning. So how do I change the root password? I am still able to login to the Appliance web portal via https://FQDN-or-IP:5480 for example […]
Configure vCenter Backup
Intro I thought I’d post a quick guide on how to configure backups on a vCenter, this is not particularly complicated but since I will be updating my lab and this is a necessary step for obvious reasons I figured there was no harm in blogging the process. In order to backup my vCenter I […]
Chrome NET::ERR_CERT_REVOKED Mac OS Catalina
So I recently updated my Mac OS to Catalina. As a result when use Chrome and I tried to login to one of my NSX managers web portal I received the following error. As you can see there is no way to bypass the error and access the website.There is however a couple of fixes […]
NSX-T Lab: Tier 0 Gateway
Intro Welcome to Part 16 of the NSX-T Lab Series. In the previous post, we configured our Tier 1 Gateway.In this post we will setup our Tier 0 Gateway and configure dynamic routing to the physical network and link our Tier 1 Gateway to our Tier 0 Gateway so the test app can be accessed from the […]
NSX-T Lab: Tier 1 Gateway
Intro Welcome to Part 15 of the NSX-T Lab Series. In the previous post, we discussed logical routing in NSX-T.In this post we will setup our Tier 1 Gateway and add our segments to it to get the Layer 3 routing working so our test app VMs can start talking to each other. The diagram below shows […]
NSX-T Lab: Logical Routers / Gateways
Intro Welcome to Part 14 of the NSX-T Lab Series. In the previous post, we configured our Edge cluster.In this post we briefly discuss Logical Routers / Gateways before we setup our Tier-1 and Tier-0 Gateways. First off my apologies for the delay in getting these posts up, life and work are taking up a lot of […]
NSX-V 6.4.6 released
NSX-V version 6.4.6 has been released, the release notes are here https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-NSX-Data-Center-for-vSphere/6.4/rn/releasenotes_nsx_vsphere_646.html The Route redistribution bug that I found and blogged about in this post has been fixed. “Fixed Issue 2360114 – In a multi-site Cross-VC NSX environment, Route Redistribution page for an edge that is managed by a secondary NSX Manager is unavailable. This […]
NSX-V 6.4.5 Route Redistribution Greyed Out Issue
I’ve seen this issue with a couple of customer builds over the last few months and for some reason it seems to only affect the ESG’s on the secondary site in a cross site NSX-V deployment. The issue is the ESG’s in the secondary site have the route redistribution settings greyed out as can be […]
NSX-T Lab: Edge Cluster
Intro Welcome to Part 13 of the NSX-T Lab Series. In the previous post, we deployed our second edge node via an OVA deployment. This post should be really small as we now add our two Edge nodes to an Edge cluster. What is an Edge cluster? Basically an Edge cluster is a group of Edge transport nodes […]