Year: 2024
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Fixing the Stats Primary Election alert on the vSAN ESA Cluster
Reading Time: 3 minutesFixing the Stats Primary Election alert on the vSAN ESA Cluster is an article that explains how to fix the error “Stats Primary Election” detected by the vSAN Skyline Health on a vSAN ESA cluster. Detecting the Issue When you access the vCenter Server through vSphere Client, you can see an alert…
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Configuring MPIO on Windows iSCSI Initiator
Reading Time: 6 minutesConfiguring MPIO on Windows iSCSI Initiator is an article that explains how to configure the MultiPath Input Output in a Windows Client to provide load balancing and failover process to access an iSCSI LUN provided by the vSAN iSCSI Target Service feature. First and foremost, What is MPIO? MultiPath Input Output (MPIO)…
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Using the vSAN iSCSI Target Service
Reading Time: 7 minutesUsing the vSAN iSCSI Target Service is an article that explains how to enable and configure the vSAN iSCSI Target Service. We will show in a basic way how to enable and configure this service. Before starting, I want to share some official links about this service: https://core.vmware.com/resource/vsan-iscsi-target-usage-guide https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vsan.doc/GUID-13ADF2FC-9664-448B-A9F3-31059E8FC80E.html About the vSAN…
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What are vSAN Durability Components?
Reading Time: 7 minutesvSAN is a software-defined storage solution used a lot in modern data centers. It’s a police-driven technology that provides us the flexibility to apply different policies for each virtual machine (VM) and different policies for each virtual disk (vmdk level). This article aims to provide a basic understanding of the vSAN Durability…
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What are the vSAN Trace Files?
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis article will provide an introduction to the vSAN Trace Files and some techniques to customize the maximum size and location to place those files. So, First and Foremost, What are the vSAN Trace Files? vSAN traces are log files that are used for diagnosing and troubleshooting issues with vSAN. These files…
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VMs Are Unable to Connect in the NSX Environment
Reading Time: 4 minutesVMs Are Unable to Connect in the NSX Environment is an article that shows a simple workflow to debug a VM connection issue. In this article, for instance, we are considering both VMs placed in the same NSX segment (VM A and VM B) but running on different ESXi hosts (different Host…
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NSX Distributed Firewall Challenge Scenario
Reading Time: 6 minutesNSX Distributed Firewall Challenge Scenario shows a scenario with a connectivity issue between two VMs placed on the same segment. The challenge here is to understand the issue by using troubleshooting techniques and fix the issue. Let’s talk a little about the scenario: What is the issue? From the VM “sa-infosec-03” the…
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Explaining How Inter SR iBGP Works in the NSX
Reading Time: 5 minutesExplaining how inter SR iBGP works in the NSX is an article that provides an example of how the inter SR iBGP routing process works in advertising routes between Edge Transport Nodes in a Tier-0 Gateway. I want to talk about some NSX articles that we wrote. These articles are about NSX…
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Routing Down on Tier-0 Service Router
Reading Time: 8 minutesRouting Down on Tier-0 Service Router is an article that explains what happens if a Tier-0 Service Router (SR) loses its routing adjacencies. As we know, in the NSX world we have two gateway types: Both gateways are hosted in the Edge Transport Node device!Each one is responsible for some activities in…
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Accessing the root privileged mode from the NSX CLI
Reading Time: 3 minutesAccessing the root privileged mode from the NSX CLI is an article that shows how to change from admin to root shell in the NSX Manager Appliance. First and foremost, we wrote some articles related to the NSX. The first one is an introduction to NSX-T. You can access this article by…
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Deploying the VMware Aria Operations for Networks
Reading Time: 6 minutesDeploying the VMware Aria Operations for Networks is an article that shows all the necessary steps to deploy this powerful tool to maintain and monitor your network environment. About VMware Aria Operations for Networks VMware Aria Operations for Networks provides a converged operations plane between virtual and physical networks.You discover, optimize, and…
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Installing a VMware Aria Operation for Logs Content Pack for NSX
Reading Time: 6 minutesInstalling a VMware Aria Operations for Logs Content Pack for NSX is an article that shows how to install the content pack for NSX in VMware Aria Operations for Logs. Before anything, we wrote some articles about VMware Aria Operations for Logs. The first one is How to Deploy VMware Aria Operations…