Yellow Bricks

by Duncan Epping

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#109 – Introducing Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) featuring Yves Hertoghs

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VMware Cloud Foundation 9 has brought the ⁠Virtual Private Cloud networking model⁠ front and center in the vSphere UI. Not only has it become extremely easy to provide a self-service solution for networking, but it also comes with a plethora of networking services and capabilities. Maybe even more importantly, it allows networking-noobs (like myself) to consume advanced functionality without having to file dozens of service requests. In this episode, Yves Hertoghs explains what a Virtual Private Cloud is and discusses all the ins and outs around the Transit Gateway, vDefend, subnets, and much more.

You can listen to the episode on Spotify (bit.ly/3MArJs9), Apple Podcasts (bit.ly/3YtUhWQ), or online via the embedded player below.

If you like to learn more about VPCs, make sure to read the various blogs, and watch the various Explore sessions on the topic. There’s plenty out there to dive straight into it!

Plenty of things to read and watch during the upcoming holiday season, I am going to take a short break as well, but I will be back in January for sure! Enjoy,

vSAN File Services IPs not reachable when using NSX-T?

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I’ve had this question a few times, if you enable vSAN File Services and you use NSX-T and it’s not possible to reach the vSAN File Service IP addresses, what should you do? In 999 out of the 1000 cases, it typically is a matter of enabling Mac Learning on the Segment Profile for the segment being used by vSAN File Services. I stole the below screenshot from William, it shows you how to enable it.

You may wonder why this needs to be enabled, well basically because the vSAN File Services VM is not what you are directly communicating with. The IP Address and MAC address you communicate with is associated with the vSAN File Service protocol stack container. As a result, MAC Learning needs to be enabled. I described this already in my FAQ post, but as it comes up frequently I figured I would dedicate a post to it.

VMUGs next week in South Africa, sign up!

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Last year when I visited South Africa and presented at 3 events someone on twitter said: if I would have known I would have shown up. Already tweeted it a couple of times, but just in case people missed it, I figured I would also do a short post on the topic. I am presenting at 3 VMUGs in South Africa next week together with Scott Lowe and Joe Baguley. If you live near any of these three cities, make sure to sign up… Great way to meet like minded people, extend your network, and get to hear all about Software Defined Everything from Joe, The future of NSX from Scott and all about VSAN 6.2 from myself. (Note, Joe will not be able to present in Durban unfortunately)

Hope to see you guys next week, and euuh… Yes, I would love a Stellenbrau 😉