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Separate VPC's can do More Harm Than Good

I have come across this a number of times of the past couple of months. Environments that were born in the datacenter, have grown in the datacenter - in short people who are used to certain (shall we …

  • legacy
  • Network
  • Security
  • culture
3 min read

Error Removing Nexus 1000V VEM

I encountered this last week and was not find any reference to my specific problem – so I am documenting it here. I was trying to remove the Cisco Nexus 1000V VEM from the ESXi hosts in my lab. This …

  • Network
  • Administration
  • Troubleshooting
  • 5.1
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Is 100mb Enough for the Service Console?

It is accepted practice amongst most of the virtualization world that you can use a 100mb/s link for your Service Console port, because there is not much traffic that is flowing over that link. Well …

  • Network
  • Management
  • Appliances
  • Administration
3 min read

How To Bring Down A Single NIC In ESX?

I was installing a new ESX Host today, and before putting it into Production, I wanted to test that the Network Failover was working correctly. Now instead of going over to the server and pulling out …

  • Network
  • Administration
  • VMware
  • ESX