Id like to update vCenter and ESXI without having a gateway on my Management Network as denoted in vCenter. Instead I would like to update using the second nic connected to vCenter which does have a gateway and allows only vCenter updates though.

My lab is air gapped. I dont want to expose management services to the public internet. I will only use this other NIC1 as the update NIC, using vCenter as a ?proxy? tot he ESXI hosts.

If I need to I can put a VMK on the ESXI hosts to reach the public as well, but would rather not put Management services on that VMK. This would allow my system to be connected from the Public Network, defeating the idea of Air Gapped – I will only use this second connection while updating vCenter and ESXi hosts.

NIC0 – Management Network – No Gateway

NIC1 – DHCP with access to Internet (no management services assigned)

Is this possible? Am I missing something?

Maybe I should just make a soft proxy vm or something.

Thanks,

Eric

Hi Community, we are facing the following problem: We downloaded a NSX-T Evaluation Version from VMWare und tested our planned deployment.

After successful tests we decided to use this already working setup as productive deployment.

Now we stumbled across the issue, that in the eval-version there is no IPSec and L2TP available due to export restrictions, it is a “limited export” version.

Now here is my question: can we backup the manager node configurations, install the regular NSX-T version from VMWare and restore the backup to the manager nodes without issues in regards to the limited export limitations? Do we need to redeploy edge nodes or reinstall  NSXT agents on the hosts? Maybe somebody has done this before? 

An answer would be highly appreciated!

Thanks to all of you!

Micha

So I’ve got this work computer… yes it has too many group policies preventing me from what I want to do so I installed a VM using Player trying to set up my own stuff in the VM. I’m struggling to set up the VM’s network so it bypasses work VPN on the host and only acts as another computer on my LAN. Is this possible?

The VPN is Citrix Gateway, the network connection for the VPN is on Citrix Virtual Adapter network adapter. Windows 10 Enterprise.

In addition, the PC has cellular capability. But I don’t think it’s possible to bridge the VM to the cellular adapter? It’s a DW5820e Intel 7360 LTE-A cellular adapter.

I could set up a proxy server on my LAN and just use the proxy server. Citrix Gateway is letting me have access to my LAN. But I want to explore if it’s possible to have the VM completely separate from the VPN connection and only use my LAN connection, wired or wireless.

I try to automate the installation of the vSphere replication appliance,

This appliance needs to bind with the “vCenter Extension vService”.

Wit the UI this works as expected, but is this registration also possible within the deployment with powercli?

Hello there,

We have a new win 10 1909 environment we’re trying to roll out and we’re having extreme issues with DEM not applying/saving default apps and FTAs correctly and we cannot figure out why.

I have the Default Apps and FTAs flex engine enabled with a predefined forced setting to set Internet Explorer as default browser and to set adobe reader to open PDFs.

It seems to save and apply the adobe reader FTA, and it actually seems to map .http and .https files to Internet Explorer, but it only makes IE the default browser about 40-50% of the time, so when we click on a link inside of outlook it opens up in edge.

I worked with support and they had me drop the .xml file in the file type association page on DEM as well and like I said that part seems to be applying correctly just not for the default application part.

I’ll attach several pictures and a log of my latest login to see if that will help any.

I do appreciate it!

Edit: I apologize, I forgot to list that we are using DEM version 9.11 as well.

We have started receiving the warning: “WARNING: LRO: 977: cannot aggr pkt from port 0x5000002 as lro session port is 0x5000004″.  The esx hosts are running 6.5 build 10884925.  I searched through VMware’s knowledge base, without success.  AS of yet I do not see any indications of a problem.  Any information around the error would greatly be appreciated.  We are using a nimble array with HP Proliant DL 380 G10, usiing Adapter 1 – HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2port 534FLR-SFP+ Adapter  (firmware 7.15.97) and Adapter 3 – HP Ethernet 10Gb 2-port 530SFP+ Adapter (firmware 7.15.97)

Thanks,

ShineKnox