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My home lab has been running with primary storage provided via an all-flash implementation of VMware vSAN for almost 4 years now. The underlying drives are consumer-grade Samsung 850 EVO 120gb (cache) and 500gb (capacity) SSD drives. Six months ago, Continue reading Replacing a failed vSAN cache drive
In conjunction with my previous post about IP conflicts, I thought I should share a script I created. When you are talking about the networking subnet that your VM’s live on, or the management subnet of your hosts, you can Continue reading Validating free IP’s on a non-routable subnet
I recently had a client with some ESXi hosts having intermittent issues with NFS storage. After checking vmkernel.log (and confirming via vodb.log) I found that these hosts were reporting IP conflict errors. Someone bought extra drinks that night! The following Continue reading Finding ESXi hosts with IP conflicts
I came across this post by /u/thakala on Reddit, which covers a scenario where ESXi 6.7 U2 is apparently causing dropped packets for Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) workloads. No specific support ticket has been raised with VMware according to the Continue reading ESXi 6.7 U2 breaks jumbo frames within VLAN trunk portgroups
VMUG UserCons are a free, one-day conference on topics related to VMware, its partner ecosystem and career enhancement. The day is organised and run by local VMware User Groups all around the world. The Melbourne VMUG UserCon 2019 was on Continue reading Melbourne VMUG UserCon 2019