When working on a customer site recently, it was discovered that the root account on the vRealize Operations Manager 6.0 server had been locked out. This is the process we used to unlock the root account. Open up a console session to the VM Press Alt + F1 and try […]
Recently on a customer site we had a peculiar scenario where we were deploying a VM into a NSX environment via vRA and the operation was failing due to an unknown reason. However, we noticed that the IP address that vRA had allocated for the new VM was still responding […]
Its well documented that the only way to configure syslog settings on NSX-v controllers is via the REST API. One of the things I find myself constantly doing over and over again on customer engagements is configuring syslog servers details on the NSX-v controllers, whether its because I am at […]
The Broadcom bnx2x NIC driver for VMware ESXi when installed on a ESXi 5.5 host is often an overlooked component when working with VMware NSX. If you have one of the Broadcom NICs which supports VXLAN offload and uses the bnx2x driver, it is important to choose the correct driver […]
When logging is enabled on a Cisco ASA, it often logs way to much information and makes it difficult to troubleshoot when there are issues to be looked at. Below is a config that can be pasted into an ASA which will disable most “noisy” logs and leave you with […]
Its become quite a common occurance that I need to create encrytped zip files to send to clients, and it seems to be one of those things which I always have to Google to figure out how to do it. So to save me looking up Google all the time, […]
Often when working in customer environments, there is a requirement to define security group members which are not virtual machines within the visualised environment. To achieve this, these security group members must be defined as an IP Set. The IP Set can then be included as an object in a […]
Whilst working on a vCloud Automation Center integration with NSX-v this evening, I noticed a strange error which had appeared in the logs in regards to the data collection for Network and Security Inventory. The Network and Security Inventory data collection was displaying the time the data collection last completed, […]
So following on from my previous post (NSX-v: ESG Packet Capture), today we run through how to do a packet capture on one of your NSX Controllers. Why would you want to do this I hear you ask? Well I had a situation recently where I had some unexplained behavior […]
Whilst troubleshooting at a client today, I needed to perform a packet capture on one of the Edge Services Gateways in the environment. Performing a packet capture is often very helpful in diagnosing a range of different issues. To kick off a packet capture you can jump on the console […]
