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 Components. We have…
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 can be particularly…
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 Transport Nodes). The…
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 curl command failed….
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 Introduction, NSX Manager…
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 the NSX topology…