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Lab Maintenance: Firmware Updates on a Running VCF Cluster
Installing VCF is the exciting part. Keeping it healthy afterwards is the part that matters. Server firmware is a big piece of that: BIOS, the iDRAC, storage controllers, network cards and drives all get regular fixes, and a good share of them are security fixes rather than new features. This post is the routine I…
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Building a VCF 9 Lab, Part 1: The MikroTik Network
The physical network behind my four-node VCF 9 management domain: a CRS309 routing every lab VLAN, a CRS326 as a pure L2 switch, jumbo frames end to end, and the RouterOS gotchas I hit along the way.