A collegue approached me with a customer request that concerned the NSX-T APIs. More specifically the customer is already using the NSX-T API in management mode but didn’t find the equivalent in the policy API. Doing my own research, I also failed to find the API right away. This post is basicially a reminder to check...
While rebuilding my lab from scratch with vSphere 7.0 U3c NSX Advanced (AVI) Load Balancer 21.1.3 I hit a situation where my TKGS installation would not continue with an error, it was stuck for hours: The control plane VM <ID> was unable to authenticate to the load balancer (Avi - https://<NSX ALB Controler...
Many thanks to Darius Davis from our engineering team who set me up on the solution. This morning I “just wanted to spin up a container quickly”. Having a recent version of VMware workstation already on my computer, using vctl was my preferred choice (In case you missed the blog). Problem# My initial plans came to a...
On a recent, fresh installation of LogInsight I observed that no data from a set of hosts was coming into the LogInsight server. Debugging showed not issues related to the usual suspects of DNS, NTP, firewall or network which left me a bit puzzled. I found the answer by going through the logs of the loginsight agent...
I am working on enhancing my vSphere release tagging script with the ability to tag the vCenter with a human-readable release name. As shown in the screenshot, it’s easy enough in the UI. Tags applied to the vCenter in the UI However, in PowerCLI there is no commandlet like get-vcenter. After many tries I gave up...
Update from 2020-01-11 below Life was good when I was playing around with Minikube on my private Windows Notebook until I had the (stupid) idea to use choco to update everything to the latest version. Now, Minikube would not start and notably these two packages were updated: VMware Workstation 15 Pro: 15.5.1...
Just a quick drop of notes on how to configure this if anyone else needs it. You probably searched the net and found tons of howtos on policy-based VPNs. However, I needed to do a route-based VPN my Azure resources with multi-devices and you can have only a single VPN-policy on a Gateway. Infos on IPSEC settings where...