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General / Tips & Tricks / VMware / VMware ESXi
by Patrik Kernstock · Published 8. September 2021 · Last modified 4. September 2021
What is it? TPS (Transparent Page Sharing) is a proprietary functionality in VMware ESX(i) which essentially does deduplication of memory pages used for virtual machines. To put it in other words: Identical memory content across multiple...
General / VMware / VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer/AVI
by Patrik Kernstock · Published 3. September 2021 · Last modified 31. August 2021
This time I want to introduce the ability to request the famous Let’s Encrypt certificates on your NSX Advanced Load Balancer (also known as Avi Vantage) using comprehensive on-board functionality it offers. I was improving, adding...
General / Tips & Tricks / VMware / VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer/AVI
by Patrik Kernstock · Published 30. August 2021 · Last modified 27. August 2021
Avi Controller (or NSX Advanced Load Balancer, as known now) is able to automatically run scripts to renew your certificates your Virtual Services use – this is done by such called Certificate Management and ControlScript. The...
General / Tips & Tricks / Tutorial/Guide / VMware / VMware Tanzu
by Patrik Kernstock · Published 21. August 2021 · Last modified 28. August 2021
After enabling Workload Management in vCenter as part of vSphere with Tanzu, you can easily enable the Embedded Harbor Registry on the Supervisor Cluster. Bear in mind that this however requires NSX-T in your environment, as...
This is just a quick note about something I’ve came across a few weeks ago. Here I was facing the following error when enabling enabling Fault Tolerance on one or more virtual machine: Device 'Ethernet 1'...
General / Tips & Tricks / VMware / VMware Tanzu
by Patrik Kernstock · Published 8. July 2021 · Last modified 22. August 2021
This time, I’m not getting into much detail about specific details around this topic. Consider this as a quick write-up/FYI. If you’ve ever encountered this issue or worked with securityContext‘s in Kubernetes, you might know what...
General / Microsoft / Tips & Tricks
by Patrik Kernstock · Published 9. June 2021 · Last modified 6. June 2021
Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) allows plenty of customizations when it comes to the website theme. One specific customization allows the logon using just the sAMAccountName (e.g. awesome-admin) instead of the UPN (User Principal Name) (e.g....
General / Tips & Tricks / VMware / VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer/AVI
by Patrik Kernstock · Published 7. June 2021 · Last modified 22. August 2021
VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer – also known as AVI Vantage – is a very comprehensive load balancer I was implementing in my lab the last days. The context By default AVI Controller creates one HTTP-Policy-Set...
General / VMware / VMware vCenter
by Patrik Kernstock · Published 6. June 2021 · Last modified 5. July 2021
As part of a customer request we were in need to change the swap location to a different datastore, as the current datastore was about to be removed in the near future. This post is meant...
General / VMware / VMware vCenter
by Patrik Kernstock · Published 13. March 2021 · Last modified 9. April 2021
Recently vCenter 7.0 Update 2 was released to the public, with new features and improvements. For me one highlight was the introduction of the "vSphere Native Key Provider" (NKP): a native KMS (Key Management Server), or...
