VCF FAQ What is Greenfield and Brownfield? Greenfield is a fresh installation. Brownfield is taking your existing VMware infrastructure and migrating it to 9. Do I need SDDC Manager / Fleet Manager with VCF9? No — for VCF 9 you just need VCF Operations, which handles the licensing. How do I upgrade from vSphere 8 to …

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Problem Recently I got my hands on some old HPE 3PAR 1.92TB SAS SSDs (Samsung PM1633a). I though they would be perfect for my SDDC home lab - sadly they did not work as intended with my HPE DL360 server. The SmartArray P420i was recognizing the disks but was giving the error "This physical drive does not support RAID …

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Intro VMware vSAN is a Hyperconverged Infrastructure Solution from VMware. It basically turns your servers direct attached disks into a storage cluster. Minimum Bandwidth Requirements vSAN ESA A minimum bandwidth of 25 Gbps is required, 10Gbit works but is only supported for the AF0 Config. For larger clusters or …

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Huawei Versatile Routing Platform (VRP) Overview This post gives an overview about the network operating system for huawei network devices - VRP. General Task Command Comment Enter System View < Huawei > sys Enter Interface View [R1] int GigabitEthernet0/0/1 Enter Protocol View [R1] ospf 1 Display Running Config in …

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