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NSX-T Edge and Manager CFAPI/TLS Integration

NSX-T edges, manager and components do support integration with LogInsight CFAPI Agent with TLS. However the NSX-T Manager UI does not support this specific combination of options and requires CLI work in order to function.

NSX-T Overlay Configuration (EDGE/HOST)

Update: 2025 for NSX4.x VMware NSX-T™ Data Center provides an agile software-defined infrastructure to build cloud-native application environments. NSX-T Data Center focuses on providing networking, security, automation, and operational simplicity for emerging application frameworks and architectures that have heterogeneous endpoint…

Avamar Cheatsheet

This blog entry is a cheat sheet for various Avamar commands and options required during deployment or day-to-day operations.

Debian: LVS (Direct Route/DR)

Direct Routing: referred to as DR, adopts a semi open network structure, similar to the structure of TUN mode (IP tunnel), but the nodes are not scattered in different places, but located in the same physical network with the scheduler.…

Windows: Prometheus-Node-Exporter

Prometheus is a free software application used for event monitoring and alerting. It records real-time metrics in a time series database (allowing for high dimensionality) built using a HTTP pull model, with flexible queries and real-time alerting.  Prometheus also has…

Debian: Netdata Parent

Netdata is an open source tool designed to collect real-time metrics, such as CPU usage, disk activity, bandwidth usage, website visits, etc., and then display them in live, easy-to-interpret charts. This post will cover how to create a Netdata “parent’…

Debian: Squid Block AdServers

Some us of don’t want to run PiHole, but do wish to run an AdBlock system either in DNS or integrated with our proxy server. provides a solution to both. This entry will describe how to integrate an Adblock…

ESX supressing Log Messages

VMware Workspace One Access

Sometimes it is very useful to filter most of the data coming out of each ESXi host. The destination logging servers will have cleaner logs as most junk is filtered out. This post will define the current defined filters and…