Bart Oevering Tech blog - how the nuts and bolts are connected
Time for a new blog, this time about the impact of network maintenance on VMWare vSAN. This is a situation I also presented at the VMUGNL on June 14th, 2022. At this customer network maintenance was carried out and then VMware vSAN seemed to be not working anymore. All VMs showed the status as “invalid”…
For a while now I’ve been thinking about building a new, more beefy, version of my home lab. I’m running some nested VMware labs, which require a lot of hardware. This renewal will involve, once again, replacing the underlying hardware. Thinking about this brought me back to the good old days when I bought my…
Friday late afternoon, the end of the working day, a message about a customer reaching out because of many vMotions in vCenter that are not able to complete. More than 275 emails from vCenter with errors. In this blog, we take a deeper dive and find out why it was not possible to successfully perform a…
I don’t have a blog post about ‘what is VMware NSX-T‘ yet -I’ll create a more extensive one in the future- but I just needed to share this with the world. I wanted to deploy a so-called ‘One-Arm Load Balancer attached to segment VLAN ‘ but I just couldn’t get it to work. In this…
In a previous post that I wrote about VyOS, I’ve shown that the L2TP VPN is using 10.255.255.0 as an IP address. In this blog post, I’ll dive into why this is a problem for me and how to change that. Heads up! VyOS no longer uses xl2tpd, rendering this blog post obsolete Why is…
