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The Supermicro E300 require the igxbe drivers for their 10GE NICs as the standard ESXi ISO does not natively support. Therefore I’m require to custom build the ESXi ISO. The igxbe 4.5.1 drivers were from Paul Blog – https://tinkertry.com/how-to-install-intel-x552-vib-on-esxi-6-on-superserver-5028d-tn4t. Download here. The powershell script were from here. https://www.v-front.de/p/esxi-customizer-ps.html  These are the commands used. PowerCLI C:> C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\ESXi-Customizer-PS-v2.5.ps1 -izip C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\update-from-esxi6.0-6.0_update03.zip -pkgDir E:\pkg PowerCLI C:> C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\ESXi-Customizer-PS-v2.5.ps1 -izip C:\Users\Administrator\Downlods\ESXi650-201704001.zip -pkgDir E:\pkg Screenshot: ...

Recently partly due to my interest and also work requirements, I wanted to test out VIC. You can read more about VIC here https://vmware.github.io/vic-product/. Below shows a screenshot that I had successfully deployed a vSphere Container Host(VCH). I wasn’t successfully the first time I tried to set it up just by reading the github documentation. Ben Corrie released an updated the VIC 1.1 Installation video and that help me a lot and I was successful deploying the VCH after following his steps in his video. ...

If you use VM Security Tags for Security Group membership, these Security Tags are not applied on those VMs on the recovery site. On the protected site. After using SRM for a planned migration or during a disaster recovery.   I have created the same Security Tags on both the NSX Managers. Primary NSX Manager: Secondary NSX Manager: Please let me know if you have any solution.

NSX Edge Services Gateways(ESG) – DRS Anti-Affinity automatically configured by NSX NSX Control VMs – DRS Anti-Affinity automatically configured by NSX NSX Controllers – Need to manually configured for DRS Anti-Affinity rules