Engineers are always diligent about patching, especially when it comes to the lab (wink wink). So being the diligent engineer that I am, yesterday afternoon I setup a job in Update Manager to patch all my hosts in my cluster. I stepped away to run an errand, and when I came back my first host…
There will undoubtedly come a time where you question the port configuration on your ESXi server. The Facilities team is telling you that that there’s absolutely no way they fubar’d the configuration. The NetOps team says the switch configuration is sound. Yet your host continues to have issues with communication. Without physically inspecting the server,…
One of the more tedious things in dealing with NSX is to reclaim an IP address that is no longer in use. Here is a method I use with Postman and the NSX API. Setup your Authorization to use you NSX Manager username and password: Next, perform a GET request to your NSX Manager: This…
When working with the NSX API, the first step is always authentication. Load up your NSX Manager FQDN (or IP address), along with the NSX Manager username and password as variables in your code. The following code will take your variables and convert them to base64 for consumption and authenticate to NSX Manager via API:…