Tag: VMware
Notes from the field: Ghost NIC on VMware
Quite recently I’ve encountered an issue/question at a customer which complained that two virtual machines had ghost NIC’s attached. Well it doesn’t always have to be hard in our line of work ?, after a quick look it was clear that there were snapshots in place for those VM’s with deleted old NIC’s attached. Removal…
Notes from the field: NetScaler VPX & Intel Xeon Gold
Quite recently I came across an issue when deploying a VPX instance on VMware 6.5, which resulted in a bug of the VPX image and underlying physical hardware. For reference the following hardware was backing the hypervisor: Supermicro SYS-2029U-E1CR25M Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 5118 CPU @ 2.30GHz VMware ESXi, 6.5.0, 7967591 with vSAN NetScaler VPX 12.0…
Notes from the field: uberAgent to the rescue!!
We all know it, the once in a while “it’s slow logging on..” and then it gets dropped at the escalation desk for a resolution. So I got the call for troubleshooting this issue. Since I knew from previous experiences that uberAgent is the troubleshooting tool you will want for this I contacted them and…
Notes from the lab: NetScaler VPX nsnet_connect prevents logon
When I started to rebuild my lab I came across the most strangest thing when configuring my NetScaler’s again. First a little background regarding my setup: VMware ESXi 6.5u1 Hypervisors NetScaler VPX 1000 Platinum Appliances Distributed vSwitches with vlan trunks enabled Dedicated NSVLAN for management (tagged) Data transport vlan tagged Whilst configuring and setting…