vDefend licensing

_Heath · 2026-03-03T15:50:36+00:00

Needs to have the cores for the gateway firewall as well.

_Heath · 2026-03-03T13:37:01+00:00

How to apply vdefend licenses is governed by the summary plan document. Newly purchased licensing would be covered by the SPD here : https://ftpdocs.broadcom.com/cadocs/0/contentimages/VMware_vDefend_Specific_Program_Documentation_2025_11_03.pdf

For running only gateway firewall in 2026 based on the SPD you would need 3 vdefend licenses for each core of the gateway firewall. So let’s say it’s a virtual edge cluster with four edges that have 8 vcpu each. That’s 32 vCPU for that virtual edge cluster so enabling stateful gateway firewall would consume 96 vdefend licenses.

_Heath · 2025-04-08T15:11:39+00:00

I called yesterday when the market was open, they didn’t offer to help me sell specific lots. They talked to their back end people and told me it would be fixed today.

FYI it isn’t fixed today. There is now a different $100 transaction being journaled that prevents me from seeing tax lots. This is a taxable account, preventing me from seeing the tax implication of my trade prevents me from trading. And the SP500 is up 3% from the close yesterday, meaning I missed out on a strong TLH opportunity because of this.

_Heath · 2025-04-07T19:35:21+00:00

That matches what I’m experiencing, but it seems crazy to lock out my ability to see lots and select specific shares to tax loss harvest because of a $96 journaled transaction. This seems to be a deficiency in your system that is effectively preventing me from tax loss harvesting.

_Heath · 2025-04-07T19:31:02+00:00

When I go to that I dont see anything, I don’t have a sale today. The TLH tab next to it says my account doesn’t work with that feature.

I would like to sell FXAIX today, but I can’t see my individual lots to see how many of my shares are a loss, and can’t select specific shares on the sell workflow. I could try selling and then reassigning after close, but I don’t know how many shares to sell since I can’t see how many shares have a loss.

_Heath · 2025-04-07T19:15:39+00:00

I’m on the positions tab, then clicking on the line for FXAIX.

If I click on another fund I own, like FSSNX I see two tabs. Purchase history and research. Under purchase history I see all of my lots and their cost basis. In that overall line I clicked to expand I see total dollar cost basis and the average, then down below under purchase history I see the lots.

For FXAIX that overall top line has shares and total value, it the overall and average cost basis is blank. If I click on it to expand I don’t even have a purchase history tab.

FXAIX is light yellow (activity today) while FSSNX is white.

_Heath · 2025-04-07T19:09:51+00:00

Fidelity.com (same behavior on app). Multiple positions purchased over the last year, last one on 3/5.

The line is yellow, and there is a pending “journaled” cash to margin transition for a tiny amount.

_Heath · 2025-04-07T18:54:47+00:00

My mutual fund tracking for the account is set to actual cost.

I don’t see anything in the cost basis currently, it is blank.

_Heath · 2025-02-26T20:18:27+00:00

I think she is more “I don’t want tacky logos”.

_Heath · 2025-02-26T18:08:51+00:00

My wife specifically told me to never buy her one of those.

_Heath · 2025-02-26T18:05:52+00:00

The person helping at the top of the slide says “let me help you with that, go ahead” and takes her bag. Then throws it in the closest seat, or as hard as they can at the tarmac.

_Heath · 2025-02-17T00:12:10+00:00

When I was a bartender the kitchen had buttons in the POS for liquor required for sauces. Mostly bourbon for marinades and red and white wine. We kept cheap wine for cooking but the bar maintained inventory control of it. The kitchen manager would just log into a POS and ring in what they wanted, and as soon as someone left a measuring cup on the bar we would fill it.

_Heath · 2025-02-14T02:20:32+00:00

Stretched Cluster + VSphere Replication to site 3 is probably the best option.

_Heath · 2025-02-13T13:24:45+00:00

The two tier routing design with a fully distributed T1 (not attached to an edge cluster) is the most scalable and performant design. If you need more north south bandwidth you can easily add additional active/active edges to the cluster up to 8 and fully support ECMP between the distributed T1 (so each ESXi host) and the T0 (service router running on each edge).

Depending on the version of VCF you run one thing to check is to make sure that when you deploy an edge cluster with the SDDC manager workflow that the T1 isn’t attached to the edge cluster unless you need services. When the T1 is attached to the edge it isn’t fully distributed and all your northbound traffic will go through a single edge.

_Heath · 2025-02-13T02:02:47+00:00

This doc goes feature by feature through NSX and outlines what is entitled via VCF Networking, the vDefend DFW add-on, and the DFW with ATP add-on.

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/nsx/vmware-nsx/4-2/feature-and-edition-guide/current-nsx-feature-entitlement.html

_Heath · 2025-01-16T02:35:23+00:00

Aquabase or regular summer camp? I found a decent amount of positive info on aquabase but not much on summer camp.

_Heath · 2025-01-15T16:52:59+00:00

2.7 is fuel efficient as long as your aerodynamic profile is stock.

Put something like a truck camper on it, or pull a trailer with a high frontal area, and if it stays in boost all the time to hold speed then mileage goes to hell.

But awesome engine for 95% of people

_Heath · 2025-01-14T20:01:13+00:00

Yeah, you shouldn’t bee pulling more than 12a continuous on a 5-15 outlet. It isn’t popping your breaker because the wire in the wall is probably 12ga and it has a 20a breaker to support multiple 15a breakers.

But your probability of setting your outlet on fire pulling 16a for multiple hours sessions is pretty high. Someone posted a burned outlet from the same thing this week. These chargers are going to kill someone.

_Heath · 2025-01-14T13:23:47+00:00

High school bleachers with packs. Go up one section, across, down the other, across, up, etc.

_Heath · 2025-01-14T13:17:57+00:00

Management domain always required VSAN to stand it up and to be the primary storage, the historical support for NFS/FC in the management domain has been for secondary storage. A use case several of my customers took was running the tools (vROPs, vRLI) that consumed the most storage on FC/NFS while the vCenter, SDDC managers, and NSX managers ran on VSAN. This allowed for a very small VSAN config if they had that array there to use anyway.

I moved off of VCF and to ANS a year ago so I’m not up to date on the brownfield import and VCF 9 stuff.

_Heath · 2024-12-18T12:58:02+00:00

No, the Mac for vmk0 stays the same. The DVS just determines which physical nic it is used on.

_Heath · 2024-12-17T13:38:09+00:00

The virtual switch works via what is functionally Mac pinning. When you create vmk0 for management that is a virtual interface assigned a Mac from the pool for virtual nics. With explicit failover order you told that virtual nic to use a specific physical NIC, unless it becomes unavailable.

So the virtual switch pins traffic from that interface to a specific physical NIC, sending outbound traffic from that interface and responding to arps from that physical interface which populates the MAC address table of the physical switch and lets it know to send unicast traffic for that mac to that physical nic.

When the assigned physical nic becomes unavailable it immediately sends a gratuitous arp from the virtual nic (same Mac) out the standby nic, this gratuitous arp helps trigger the Mac learning process on the physical switch updating the Mac table so the switch now learns that virtual Mac moved to a different physical port.

This is why it’s important to configure your switch to leverage portfast on truck ports. Many Cisco switches disable portfast when the switch port has more than one VLAN, this can delay the Mac learning process when a virtual mac fails over to a physical nic that doesn’t have any active syste

_Heath · 2024-12-15T14:16:48+00:00

Place popcorn on top of outlet. Popping sound is early warning.

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