Author: Danilo

Manual 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 UI. But, if all NSX Manager Appliances were deployed by the manual process instead from NSX Manager GUI, we cannot delete this NSX Manager Appliance from UI (the delete option will be Grayout): We can check what Deployment Type of an NSX Manager Appliance by clicking on the…

Removing 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 below link: As a VMware recommendation, three NSX Manager Appliances are recommended for high availability and redundancy purposes. So, to access the NSX Manager Cluster using one IP address, for example, we can enable the Virtual IP (VIP) configuration. We have an article to explain how to do…

NSX-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. The NSX-T Data Plane is a fundamental layer of the NSX-T Data Center architecture responsible for handling network traffic processing and forwarding. This article explains the main components of the Data Plane and how Transport Nodes operate inside the NSX-T environment. Within NSX-T Data Center, the architecture is divided into three main layers: Management Plane, Control Plane, and Data Plane. While the Management and Control Plane components run on the NSX Manager Cluster, the Data Plane is…

Installing Slax in a Lab Environment is an article that explains how to install the Slax OS in a Lab Environment. Slax is a live OS, based on Linux, very tinny and we can use it for tests or other related actions. Besides Slax is a Live OS system, we can install it on a disk to boot directly from the disk. We will show how we can do that 🙂 To know more about Slax, I would like to recommend the below link: I am used to using Slax in lab environments to simulate VMs, do networking tests between…

Implementing 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 can be a vSAN Cluster or a vSphere cluster and we have the remote vSAN cluster. This remote vSAN cluster has a vSAN datastore and the client cluster can mount this datastore and using to create your VMs (Virtual Machines). The client cluster only is used to provide…

Applying ESXi patch with vLCM is a practical way to update multiple ESXi hosts in a vSphere cluster while maintaining image consistency. This article explains how to use vSphere Lifecycle Manager Images to define a desired ESXi image and remediate hosts according to that configuration. With vSphere 7.0, VMware introduced vSphere Lifecycle Manager Images (vLCM), a declarative approach that allows administrators to manage the desired state of ESXi hosts, including ESXi versions, firmware, and drivers. When a host differs from the configured image, vLCM can remediate it to restore compliance. In this guide, we will demonstrate the process of importing…