Year: 2023
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Using the vim-cmd Tool
Reading Time: 6 minutesUsing the vim-cmd Tool is an article that explains some useful commands with the tool vim-cmd for troubleshooting hosts and VMs in your virtual environment. Basically, the VMware Infrastructure Management command (vim-cmd) is a CLI (Command Line Interface) tool for managing ESXi hosts and their VMs from the command line. Some important…
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Benchmarking between LSI SAS x PVSCSI Controller
Reading Time: 4 minutesBenchmarking between LSI SAS x PVSCSI Controller is an article that shows a simple performance comparison between LSI SAS x VMware Paravirtual Controller. So, we have an article that explains how to change the disk controller from the LSI SAS SCSI controller to the VMware Paravirtual controller. If you need to check…
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How to change a virtual SCSI controller for a VM
Reading Time: 5 minutesHow to change a virtual SCSI controller for a VM is an article that explains how to change an LSI Logic SAS SCSI disk controller to a VMware Paravirtual disk controller. About LSI Logic SAS SCSI Controller By default, when you create your VM (Virtual Machine) in a vSphere environment, the default…
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How to configure DHCP Relay for an NSX-T Segment
Reading Time: 4 minutesHow to configure DHCP Relay for an NSX-T Segment is an article that explains how VMs inside an NSX-T Segment can acquire an IP address from an external DHCP Server. Firstly, What is DHCP? I researched on the Internet and found a good explanation for DHCP: “Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is…
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A little Introduction about VxRail
Reading Time: 4 minutesA little Introduction about VxRail is an article that details the hyper-convergence solution called VxRail. Firstly, when discussing hyper-convergence infrastructure, we discuss a converged architecture defined as software. We have some layers in this architecture, and each layer is managed by software. About the layers, they are: We have an article that…
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Join an NSX Manager Appliance Manually
Reading Time: 3 minutesJoin an NSX Manager Appliance Manually is an article that explains how to join an NSX Manager Appliance manually into an NSX Manager Cluster. Firstly, if you need to know all steps to deploy the first NSX Manager Appliance, we have an article that shows how to do it:https://dpcvirtualtips.com/nsx-manager-deployment-steps/ Also, after the…
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Manual Removal of an NSX Manager Appliance
Reading Time: 2 minutesManual Removal of an NSX Manager Appliance is an article that explains the process of manually removing an NSX Manager Appliance from the NSX Manager Cluster. VMware recommends that the first NSX Manager Appliance deployment is done from vSphere Client. To deploy additional NSX Manager Appliances, we can use the NSX Manager…
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Removing NSX Manager VIP Configuration
Reading Time: 2 minutesRemoving NSX Manager VIP Configuration is an article that explains all steps to remove the NSX Manager Virtual IP configuration. Firstly, if you need to understand what steps are necessary to deploy the NSX Manager, we have an article that explains these steps. We can see all details by clicking on the…
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NSX-T Data Plane Introduction
Reading Time: 3 minutesNSX-T Data Plane Introduction is an article that explains some details about the NSX-T Data Plane layer in the NSX-T Data Center solution. Inside NSX-T, basically, we have three layers or planes:–> Management plane–> Control plane–> Data plane Both the Management and Control planes are in the NSX Manager Cluster, and the…
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Implementing vSAN HCI Mesh
Reading Time: 7 minutesImplementing vSAN HCI Mesh is an article that explains how to mount a remote vSAN datastore provided by a remote vSAN Cluster. An Introduction About vSAN HCI Mesh The vSAN HCI Mesh is a service that enables administrators to mount the datastore of another vSAN cluster. We have the client cluster that…
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Applying ESXi Patch with vLCM
Reading Time: 6 minutesApplying ESXi Patch with vLCM is an article that explains how to apply an ESXi Patch on all ESXi hosts in a vSphere Cluster. Before we show the practical steps to perform it, we will talk a little about vSphere vLCM. Background With vSphere 7.0, VMware launched a feature called vSphere Lifecycle Manager…