Faisal Rahman, Author at Bridge to Cloud

Install and Configure vROps Management Pack for NSX

December 14, 2017 Faisal Rahman Comments 1 comment

Installing vRops management pack for NSX is easy as all other management packs. First, download the management pack from VMware market place (VMware Solution Exchange). To do so, search for “management pack for NSX”. At the time of writing the latest version is on https://marketplace.vmware.com/vsx/solutions/management-pack-for-nsx-for-vsphere-3-5-1 Click try button and log in using your credentials. Make sure you check the compatibility before install / configure for your environment. Once it gets downloaded, install the management pack (extension .pak). To do so,…

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NSX Manager Account – NSX CLI account – Part-2 (Modification)

December 4, 2017 Faisal Rahman Comments 2 comments

The NSX Manager Account – NSX CLI account – Part-1 (Creation) was for creating the user account. In this section, we will go through how to modify the privilege or delete an NSX CLI account. Modifying the NSX CLI user account privilege – Modifying account privilege is easy from vCenter GUI. It is as simple as selecting the user and set new privilege you like to prefer. But wait, we cannot do whatever we want to do with the user…

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NSX Manager Account – NSX CLI account – Part-1 (Account Creation)

December 3, 2017 Faisal Rahman Comments 2 comments

Recently I was doing a vROps project that requires monitoring NSX environment as well. VMware has a management pack for NSX that monitor the NSX environment. Once I go through the procedure, I found the roadblock. The vROps management pack for NSX requires (here is how to install and configure vRops MP for NSX) an NSX CLI account. For many companies, it is okay to use the built-in ‘Admin’ account. But for the security point of view, it is not…

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‘HCI Bench’ Comparing Samsung 960EVO vs 850EVO vs SanDisk Extreme

June 13, 2017 Faisal Rahman Comments 0 Comment

My new requirement at home become quieter servers or no more home lab (you know what I mean :-)). So, I had to change my Cisco and HP servers to a custom build workstation/server with Super Micro motherboard. For on-board storage, I used SSDs from my old servers and added a new Samsung 960EVO M.2 card on it. After the server build I felt like time to test my 3 different SSDs on board. After reviewing few of the benchmark tools,…

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Cannot log in to the ESXi 6.0 host using Active Directory domain credentials

July 12, 2016 Faisal Rahman Comments 0 Comment

After an ESXi v6 host is added to the domain and add domain security group to the ESXi permissions, users might not able to login to ESXi host using domain credential. There can be many reason for this. One of the reasons is that the ldap cache is not big enough to catch require ladp data. /var/log/syslog.log file will have a entry lwsmd: encoded packet size too big (4612 > 4096)To fix the issue, /etc/likewise/openldap/ldap.conf needs to configure. The default…

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