Reading Time: 5 minutesExplaining vSAN’s Free Capacity is an article that explains some important points about vSAN’s free space recommendation to maintain your vSAN cluster healthy. What is vSAN Slack Space? vSAN Slack Space is a free space or a free area in the vSAN Datastore reserved for vSAN’s internal operations such as host maintenance mode data evacuation,…
Reading Time: 3 minutesDebugging vCenter and ESXi Heartbeat is an article that explains how to debug the ESXi heartbeat communication with the vCenter Server. We will use the tool “tcpdump” to help us in this troubleshooting. The ESXi host (vpxa) sends UDP heartbeats packets to the vCenter Server (vpxd) every 10 seconds. This traffic uses UDP port 902….
Reading Time: 3 minutesAdding Additional NSX Manager Appliance is an article that explains the process to add additional NSX Managers appliances to the NSX Management Cluster. We posted a previous article explaining how to deploy the first NSX Manager. So, click HERE to read this article. There is a recommendation from VMware to deploy 3 NSX Managers in…
Reading Time: 4 minutesNSX Manager Deployment Steps is an article that explains all steps to deploy the first NSX Manager for an NSX-T Data Center environment. The first step is to deploy the first NSX Manager. In this phase, we need to deploy the NSX Manager from the OVA file. Firstly, select the Cluster –> Right Click on…
Reading Time: 4 minutesIntroduction to NSX-T is an article that explains the basic concepts of VMware NSX-T. Update: Nowadays, VMware has changed the name to only “NSX”! Current Business Days In the digital business era, nearly every organization is building custom applications to drive its core business and gain a competitive advantage. The speed at which development teams…
Reading Time: 4 minutesIntroduction to SDDC is an article that explains the core fundamentals of SDDC. SDDC is an acronym for Software-Defined Data Center and it’s very common in the documentation about Data Centers based on Software-Defined. What is SDDC? SDDC is a concept used in IT to refer to data center infrastructures based on virtualization, such as…