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How to define two NetFlow targets in vSphere VDS

July 27, 2017 / Martijn / 2 Comments

Sorry, you actually can’t configure two Netflow targets in vSphere. 😉

HOWEVER! There’s a way around this limitation. Currently, the VDS only supports one Netflow target IP address to send NetFlow to. This limitation can cause some issues when you want to employ multiple Netflow collectors, for instance an existing Network Management System (NMS) and do a vRealize Network Insight Assessment.

What is Netflow?

I’m not going to explain Netflow in depth, but just to set the stage here’s a small summary. Netflow is a protocol that allows you to collect information about what traffic flows are going through … Read more

Editing uneditable VMs in vCenter

July 17, 2017 / Martijn / 2 Comments

Certain service appliances cannot be edited manually inside vCenter. For instance, VMware NSX Edge appliances are an example of such service appliances. These VMs are managed by the NSX Manager and you shouldn’t change their configuration manually. Normally. 😉

But sometimes you need to edit those VMs. There are not many reasons why you would want to do this (as it’s heavily unsupported), but one reason might be to free up resources in your home lab (which is exactly why I wanted to do this). For instance, NSX Edge appliances come with a CPU & memory reservation placed on … Read more

Qt QNetworkAccessManager causing latency spikes on wifi

June 17, 2017 / Martijn / 4 Comments

I don’t post a lot from my other life, the programming personality, most of my posts come from my adventures in virtualization. I have a bit more fun writing about virtualization than I do writing about programming, plus the number of coding blogs out there is enormous. But I’ve been troubleshooting an extremely hard to pin down issue with one of my applications (WhatPulse), where there would be a latency spike every 10 seconds (or less), only when primarily connected on wifi on Mac OS 10.12 (lower versions don’t seem affected). I’ve been pulling my hair on this … Read more

New VMware Fling – Autopology (Drag and Drop NSX Network Topologies? Yes Please!)

May 16, 2017 / Martijn / 0 Comments

The VMware Fling labs is one of my favourite things, as it brings some awesome new tech straight from VMware R&D. Some of these flings flow to the product cycles (remember the HTML5 client, now default in vCenter?). And they did it again!

Ever since I’ve seen an internal session about this product, I’ve been anxiously waiting for it to be released (one way or another). Autopology just dropped on the Flings website. Autopology is a translator between your network drawings and the real-life configuration. It is a what-you-see-is-what-you-get editor where you can create drawings of a network topology and … Read more

Exporting your Amazon Kindle Highlights & Notes to MySQL

April 20, 2017 / Martijn / 0 Comments

As a wise man said; now for something completely different. This post is going to be just that.

I received a Amazon Kindle on christmas and absolutely love it. It has replaced hauling around a bunch of physical books and made my life a lot easier when it comes to managing highlights and notes about the topics in the books (I read a lot of educational text).

Previously I had a physical notebook with me that I translated into electronic notes by hand. I use Evernote for all my note taking purposes. With the Kindle, all your highlights and notes … Read more

VMware NSX 6.3 is here!

February 2, 2017 / Martijn / 0 Comments

NSX 6.3 has just been made generally available and it’s a humongous one. The changes in this new version reflect a new maturation phase in which NSX is now in. Here are my top picks, for the entire list of changes go here.

Controller Disconnect Operation (CDO) Mode

The control plane and data plane in SDN are inherently separated from each other. The control plane can be shut down without affecting the data plane, at least, affecting it immediately. Once the control plane is down, no changes can be made and the data plane operators (in NSXs case, the … Read more

vRealize Network Insight Bulk Import of Data Sources

December 30, 2016 / Martijn / 0 Comments

I’ve been rolling out quite a few vRealize Network Insight deployments (labs, Proof-of-Concepts) and while the installation of NI is a cake walk (see automated installer here), add the data sources can be time consuming if you have a bunch of switches and/or other data sources which need to be imported.

The Network Insight team has done a very good job on the architecture of the product, where they are using all kinds of cool API calls to push and retrieve information from the NI backend. This is mostly done via JavaScript, which means the users browser is executing … Read more

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