Author: Danilo

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…

Force provisioning option in vSAN policies is an article that explains in a practical way how the advanced option force provisioning works. Firstly, if you need to know a little bit about vSAN, we have an article that explains what is vSAN (in a basic way) and how to set up a vSAN cluster. Click here to read this article. When the object will place in the vSAN Datastore, a vSAN Storage Policy is used to define how this data will be stored, what level of tolerance, the number of stripes, and other parameters. So, about advanced configuration in a…

vSphere HA Communication Network is an article that explains how vSphere HA Communication Network works in a vSAN Cluster, and what network is used to achieve that. Definitely, the vSphere HA is a classical and useful feature present on the vSphere Stack. vSphere HA provides high availability for virtual machines by pooling the virtual machines and the hosts they reside on into a cluster. Hosts in the cluster will monitor and in the event of a failure, the virtual machines on a failed host will restart on alternate hosts. Note: It is very important here to avoid confusion or mistakes. When…