Eric Sloof

If your dashboard is indicating that a host is not in a healthy state, you can capture packets for that particular host for further troubleshooting. You can capture packets using the new Packet Capture tool, to help diagnose and solve network related problems.

You can create a packet capture session for required hosts on the NSX Manager using the Packet Capture tool. After the packets are captured, the file is available to download. 

Maximum of 16 sessions and total of 400 MB files are available to download. If you want to start a new session after reaching maximum session, you must clean the older sessions. 

Your session remains active for 10 minutes, and the existing session is removed one hour after the session was created. If you restart NSX, all the existing sessions are cleared.

VMware vSphere 6.7 delivers key capabilities to enable IT organizations to address the following notable trends that are putting new demands on their IT infrastructure:

• Explosive growth in quantity and variety of applications, from business-critical applications to new intelligent workloads
• Rapid increase in hybrid cloud environments and use cases
• Global expansion of on-premises data centers, including at the edge
• Heightened importance of security relating to infrastructure and applications

Download the Technical White Paper: What's New in vSphere 6.7

Harald Ruppert, a vSAN Escalation Engineer at VMware has created a great tool to check if your vSAN harware is supported. The vSAN HCL viewer is  based on the VMware vSAN HCL in JSON format for online use of vSAN health checks.

If you would like to build your own vSAN, then you can do so using certified components, and you must confirm that all your components including drives are supported by the OEM server vendor and VMware. Simply select the type of component; SSD, HDD or controller and put in a partial Model or Vender and the result shows immediately.

This document covers how one can create security policy rules in VMware NSX. This will cover the different options of configuring security rules either through the Distributed Firewall or via the Service Composer User Interface. It will cover all the unique options NSX offers to create dynamic policies based on the infrastructure context.

See What's New in User Environment Manager version 9.4. Includes a demo of the new argument based Privilege Elevation feature.

DRS Entitlement Viewer is installed as a plugin to the vSphere client. It is currently only supported for the HTML5 based vSphere client. Once installed, it gives the hierarchical view of vCenter DRS cluster inventory with entitled CPU and memory resources for each resource pool and VM in the cluster. 

Entitled resources can change with VMs’ resource demand and with the VM’s and resource pool's reservation, limit and shares (RLS) settings. So, customers can get the current entitlements based on the VMs’ current demand and RLS settings of the VMs and resource pools.