Over the years you hear some great IT horror stories. Hopefully by sharing it, others can learn and have a good laugh. Names have been changed to protect the innocent. Part I - A New Hope The team had created a bootable CD that could re-image an ESXi host within 10 minutes. Late one night, rather than troubleshoot an …

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In a VCF 4 multi AZ deployment, before stretching the cluster to AZ2, there's some manual tasks required for the T0 to peer with the ToR switches in AZ2. The process is well documented in the NSX-T Data Center Configuration for Availability Zone 2 for the Management Domain in Region A on the VVD6 documentation pages. …

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During a VCF 4 Bring-up of a single Management Domain, the validation tests passed all OK. But during the deployment, it failed during the NSX-T tasks, specifically on the "Verify BGP Route Distribution" - "Failed to validate the BGP Route Distribution result for edge with ID ". My understanding of …

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On the 30th July, 2020, NSX-T 2.5.2 was released. Check out the release notes.

This is a minor update with almost 80 issues marked as fixed.

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Last month VMware released updated versions of some exams, including the VCAP-NV Design exam based on NSX-T 3.0. In the past year or so I've been working a lot more with NSX-T, but.. I'm not a real* networking guy, so I wasn't confident in taking NV exams.

After passing the VCP-NV on NSX-T 2.4 earlier in the year, I …

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Finally getting around to upgrading to ESXi 7.0, and I was stuck pretty quickly, with the error: BOOT_DISK_SIZE ERROR.
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Switching between a mix of different product versions, I forget some of the specifics, and I've wasted too much time troubleshooting something that was working OK. Hopefully this saves you some time.
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Here's a few tips from what I do when deploying Photon OS in the lab. Keep in mind this is only for troubleshooting and testing, so don't make the same changes to anything outside of your lab.
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If you followed the previous blog NSX-T: Deploy NSX-T Manager 2.5 with OVFtool you should have NSX-T Managers deployed.

There's a few more things we have to configure within NSX-T Manager like:

• Add a compute Manager (when using vCenter)
• Create IP Pools
• Create Transport Zones
• Create Profiles - Uplink & Transport …

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If you have the NSX-T Manager OVA on a fileshare or web server you can deploy it from the vCenter GUI, or use any other deployment tool like OVFtool.

Using OVFtool to deploy NSX-T Manager is a great way to deploy a quick and repeatable configuration. It also helps to document the configuration options.

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