How to set proper passwords on an NSX-T 2.x Bare Metal Edge Server ANDERS OLSSON - 7 DECEMBER, 2019 Problem: When installing a Bare Metal NSX-T 2.x Edge from the ISO (as described here), you aren’t asked to set passwords for the ‘root’ and ‘admin’ accounts. Instead, the pre-set default user names /
NSX-T – How to use all physical NICs/uplinks in your Bare Metal Edge ANDERS OLSSON - 15 DECEMBER, 2019 Problem: On a newly installed NSX-T 2.5 Bare Metal Edge node, you can only see 3 available physical NICs/uplinks, even though your physical server has 4 of them installed and connected. (Or 7 uplinks
Critical security patch for vCenter Server (VMSA-2020-006) ANDERS OLSSON - 20 APRIL, 2020 VMware has released a critical security patch for vCenter Server 6.7 named VMSA-2020-006. It has a CVSS score of 10, which is all you really need to know to get a sense of the urgency to install this patch. The
VMware ESXi 6.x security vulnerability CVE-2019-5544 (VMSA-2019-0022) ANDERS OLSSON - 27 JANUARI, 2020 In December, VMware posted a security bulletin VMSA-2019-0022 which describes a serious vulnerability in ESXi 6.x (and Horizon DaaS, but that is not covered in this blog post) that allows an attacker to remotely execute code on the ESXi host,
NSX-T – How to figure out what those weird UUIDs really represent ANDERS OLSSON - 27 NOVEMBER, 2019 If you’ve been running NSX-T for a while, you probably know that a lot of error messages and CLI lists contain UUIDs rather than the actual NSX-T object names. One example below, where there
How To Set Proper Syslog Settings for NSX-T 2.4 Appliances ANDERS OLSSON - 12 JULI, 2019 Scenario: We want to have NSX-T 2.4 Managers/Controllers and Edges send logs to a central logging server (such as vRealize Log Insight). This is particularly important for the firewall logs, since we do want to be able to
VMware Skyline – and why you probably want Runecast too ANDERS OLSSON - 18 JANUARI, 2019 VMware Skyline is the new incarnation of VMware’s previous tool called vCenter Support Assistant. The main purpose of the tool is: To proactively analyze a vSphere environment (vCenter, ESXi, vSAN, NSX) and alert the customer when it
