Any sort of deployment should not only consider the immediate needs, but also an potential future requirements. How many times have we been in the “I wished I knew this before” or “I didn’t realise it back then” situations. We can plan as much as we can, but sometimes the most minute details can escape… Read More »
This post are for the system administrators who are less familiar with Networking terms, particularly describing the nature of the ports. Access Port Trunk Port Hybrid Port These terms are not used on the system side, so unless you have done some networking training/read up on this, you may not know what they really mean,… Read More »
This is a common scenario that comes up when discussing resilient network design and implementation between servers and switches. For this we need to have the system and network folks together in the room. More often than not, especially in large organisations, these folks are experts within their domain, but little cross domain knowledge. I’m… Read More »
I’m no networking expert, but I’ve discussed this several times with my friend and colleague Low Soon Seng, who is a double CCIE, and a Technical Trainer at Nutanix. Thank you Soon Seng, I have learnt a lot from you. First my pet peeve; that many people mistakenly use the term LACP, to mean Link… Read More »
In the virtualisation best practice, one of the earliest best practice since many moons ago was to have network admins configure switch ports which are connected to ESXi hosts to have portfast enabled. For many who know this, I find that it tends to be just a regurgitation of what have been read. Very few… Read More »
This is a question that was posed to me recently, it’s an unusual but valid scenario which I feel is worthy of sharing. This is a Horizon View virtual desktop use case where the virtual desktop is hosted in Singapore, and the users are located overseas. In this situation they were in China and Korea,… Read More »
I came across this just this week working with on a virtual desktop deployment. One of the requirements is to disallow virtual desktops in the same subnet to talk to each other. The most efficient way to do this was to make use of Private VLANs and put the desktops in an Isolated PVLAN. It… Read More »