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This article provides information for backing up and restoring the embedded vPostgres database for vCenter Server or vCenter Server Appliance. This process can be used when uninstalling the vCenter Server to prevent data loss due to the uninstalled database. [Read More]

In an environment with a vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 6.5.x, 6.7.x or vCenter Server 7.0.x, you experience these symptoms: [Read More]

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To avoid automatic password expiry for root, audit and admin users on both NSX manager and Edges we can set the password expiry to 9999 days. This is better than disabling password expiry altogether as some checks later might require password expiry to be enabled. [Read More]

iPerf3 is a tool for actively measuring the maximum achievable bandwidth on IP networks. It supports tuning various parameters related to timing, buffers and protocols (TCP, UDP, SCTP with IPv4 and IPv6). It reports the bandwidth, loss, and other parameters for each test. [Read More]

It’s often more helpful to capture packets using tcpdump rather than wireshark, as it is available as a package in most Linux and BSD package managers. For example, you might want to do a remote capture and either don’t have GUI access or don’t have Wireshark installed on the remote... [Read More]

Appliance Size **Memory ** vCPU **Disk Space ** VM Hardware Version Notes NSX Edge Small 4 GB 2 200 GB 11 or later (vSphere6.0 or later) Proof-of-concept deployments only. Note:L7 rules for firewall, load balancing and so on are not realized on a Tier-1 gateway if you deploy a small... [Read More]

For the secure functioning of a Fortigate Firewall, it is recommended to only permit access to the functions of the Fortigate that a user needs to have access to. Some of the functions that utilise these groups with a FortiGate are: [Read More]

There will be times within the NSX lifecycle when you could be required to deploy a new edge node, including: [Read More]

FRRD is the routing daemon that NSX uses as the data plane. To access this you use the cli command vtysh. [Read More]