Author: Danilo

What is NSX-T DFW is an article that explains a little bit about the NSX-T Distributed Firewall and how rules are applied on Hosts Transport Nodes. Security is a subject that needs careful attention for all administrators at all levels of business (from small to bigger companies). Cybercrime is more sophisticated and new malware is released every day. So, we need to improve our digital security to avoid or minimize risks related to it. In this context, the DFW acronym for Distributed Firewall can help to protect the virtual workloads inside an NSX-T infrastructure. Each Host Transport Node has firewall…

Clustering VMware Aria Operations for Logs is an article that explains how to create a cluster with VMware Aria Operations for Logs. Single Nodes A basic VMware Aria Operations for Logs configuration includes a single node. Log sources can be applications, Operating Systems logs, virtual machine logs, hosts, the vCenter Server, virtual or physical switches, routers, storage hardware, etc. Log streams are transported to the VMware Aria Operations for Logs node using syslog (UDP, TCP, TCP+SSL) or CFAPI (the VMware Aria Operations for Logs native ingestion protocol over HTTP or HTTPS). As a best practice, do not use single nodes…

How to Deploy VMware Aria Operations for Logs is an article that explains how to deploy and configure VMware Aria Operations for Logs (formerly vRealize Log Insight). Firstly, What is vRealize Log Insight? vRealize Log Insight provides intelligent log management for infrastructure and applications in any environment. This highly scalable log management solution delivers intuitive, actionable dashboards, sophisticated analytics, and broad thirty-day extensibility across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Source: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Log-Insight/index.html Based on my Internet research, I would like to share my findings here: If you need to know more details about VMware Aria Operations for Logs, you can read…

How to Restore NSX Manager from Backup is an article that explains the process of restoring the NSX Manager from a valid backup. Backup… Backup… Backup… this is an important subject that always we are talking about. In a practical way, few people really are careful about this. For the NSX-T environment, doing NSX Manager backup is mandatory in my opinion. So, if you do not make regular backups of your NSX Manager cluster, please, stop now and do it now! There are a lot of Internet articles about how to configure NSX Manager backup. Also, we have an article…

Install VMware PowerCLI Offline is an article that explains all procedures to install the VMware PowerCLI from the Offline package. Basically, VMware PowerCLI is a command-line and scripting tool built on PowerShell and provides more than 7000 cmdlets for managing and automating VMware vSphere, VMware Cloud Director, vRealize Operations Manager, vSAN, VMware NSX-T, VMware Cloud Services, VMware Cloud on AWS, VMware HCX, VMware Site Recovery Manager, and VMware Horizon environments. So, in my opinion, every “VMware” Guy needs to know a little about VMware PowerCLI 🙂 In this article, we will explain how to download and install the VMware PowerCLI…

VM Snapshots Basics is an article that explains what is a VM snapshot and how it works in a vSphere Environment. What is a Snapshot? Basically, a Snapshot is a function that can be used to maintain or preserve the state and data of a virtual machine at a specific point in time (PIT): A virtual machine provides several operations for creating and managing snapshots and snapshot chains. These operations let you create snapshots, revert to any snapshot in the chain, and remove snapshots. You can create extensive snapshot trees. Important: Snapshot is not a BACKUP. So, YOU SHOULD NOT…