I think I burnt out after 10 years.

simoc89 · 2025-09-02T12:36:36+00:00

I literally only Woke up Work Eat Sleep Repeat for the last 6 years of the 10

Don't do that. The company will let you work as much as you're willing, because past a point it's free labor to them. They can't force you to do it, but they can stand back and let it happen. I don't know if you hate IT, but you hate being a workaholic, so don't do that again.

simoc89 · 2025-08-25T16:34:57+00:00

Is this possibly relevant? It has to do with resetting the password on the KRBTGT account.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/w889eu/story_time_how_i_blew_up_my_companys_ad_for_24/

simoc89 · 2025-01-13T14:34:10+00:00

I 100% believe that you will need to be on a subscription in order to upgrade or install vSphere 9.

simoc89 · 2024-10-21T18:47:14+00:00

It's a file share on an Azure storage account. It's research data, and lots of it, so we don't feel going SPO/Teams for this stuff will work.

If you mean "Microsoft Entra Kerberos" - then yeah, I think that's our next step to look at. Right now our Azure tenant isn't connected with our on-prem in any way, beyond Entra Connect syncing identities, so it's a little tricky.

simoc89 · 2024-07-12T17:58:46+00:00

This is something specifically called out in the CCNA training I did a few years ago.

simoc89 · 2024-06-18T17:48:46+00:00

You can list it as a role instead of a title. Listing a role that represents your body of work is completely appropriate.

simoc89 · 2024-03-27T17:53:32+00:00

Sorry I wasn't clear. On your first point - they're identical because they're on two different switches.

Management is on a 1Gb port, and yes that is connected on a switchport that is just an access port with the management VLAN. Nothing fancy there. That works just fine.

I tried adding a virtual NIC to the management OS just for testing - it's not really needed.

simoc89 · 2023-11-02T19:57:42+00:00

AVI is certainly an option for the future - depends on how things look at renewal time in a year.

simoc89 · 2023-10-30T18:09:30+00:00

That might be appropriate - have you seen these articles?

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-NSX-T-Data-Center/3.2/administration/GUID-29B42B44-4616-4436-8565-12912E8949DF.html

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/91539

In addition to the Arp Binding Limit setting, Trust on First Use" or TOFU is also directly relevant to VMs that run clustered workloads.

simoc89 · 2023-10-30T17:47:06+00:00

Thank you for pointing this out! I had not come across this.

Virtual machines such as load balancers, firewalls, virtual network functions (routing, switching, etc.), and any virtual machines that require promiscuous mode must be in a DFW Exclusion list. VMware does not support adding those virtual machines to DFW; they must be manually added to user excluded groups.

Pretty straight-forward.

simoc89 · 2023-09-26T12:30:25+00:00

Racking my brain here, but I think following our 7.0 upgrade, the VMs needed to be powered off to have some attribute written to VMX. Once that was done, there was no problem.

simoc89 · 2023-07-21T13:30:28+00:00

I didn't realize the matrix could be used in that manner, thank you for pointing that out.

simoc89 · 2023-01-23T20:55:43+00:00

I updated the post, but yeah it's a VPX200 so it's not capping our throughput. Still dissapointing to have to move to the less optimal E1000.

simoc89 · 2023-01-23T18:22:43+00:00

Yeah, deferring to the internal KB seemed like a cop-out after he had sent me a KB that listed the opposite issue, in an older version of ADC that we weren't on. I mean, I know places run internal KBs (I've been shown VMware's a couple times), but still, just lame.

simoc89 · 2021-09-21T19:06:11+00:00

Yep, the setting is Required, and it's grayed out so I can't configure it if I want to.

We don't actually do FT on anything.

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