I know a couple of years ago voipsupply.com carried quite a bit of Yealink gear, but I have not had a need to buy from them in quite a while.

@ghani said in Upgrading from ESXi 5.5 to ESXi 6.5 . what are the steps need to follow ?:

@aaronstuder said in Upgrading from ESXi 5.5 to ESXi 6.5 . what are the steps need to follow ?:

version

currently VMware latest version 6.5 on IT industry

Make sure you're installing 6.5U1 and not just 6.5. Are you using a Windows vCenter or the appliance? Remember that Windows vCenter support will be disappearing soon - https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2017/08/farewell-vcenter-server-windows.html.

I'd start with this series of posts by one of the Technical Marketing Managers at VMware - https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2017/05/vsphere-6-5-upgrade-considerations-part-1.html. I believe there are 2 other articles he has written about it.

Here's my full write up with takeaways - https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2053346-dfw-spicecorps-9-12-2017-google-g-suite-vs-microsoft-office-365.

Many thanks to @NetworkNerdWifey for helping with video editing and thumbnails.

@jakub-wawrzacz-p1 said in Site-to-Site VPN between Cisco ASA and Meraki MX: The KB I Wish Meraki Had Written:

@networknerd I will check out the blog as well thank you. Btw: just to give you an update, I had to do 2 more things to get a stable tunnel and that is set the 2nd Phase Lifetime to be lower than the Phase 1 and remove other encryption policies on the ASA. For example, I used for Phase One 3DES, SHA, DH Group 2 and Lifetime 86400 and for Phase 2 I used AES192, SHA, PFS Off and Lifetime 28800. On the ASA side, I disabled the IKev2 and for the Encryption Policy I only left enabled what you see above, plus obviously matched the time to 28800. I got stable tunnel then. Before these changes the tunnel kept dropping.

That's great information to have. Thanks for sharing!

I hope to have a more formalized write up of some of the cool features of both G Suite and O365 in the next couple of days.

Youtube Video

Here's one of the videos from the meeting. The other one is still being spliced together and uploaded -

Youtube Video

@r3dpand4 I'm afraid the November meeting will be on a Tuesday (not yet posted). But we can move to Thursday evening for a future event (or even Monday). Sometimes Monday is not the best day for people. And I try to avoid Wednesdays since that is a church night for some folks.

@jakub-wawrzacz-p1 said in Site-to-Site VPN between Cisco ASA and Meraki MX: The KB I Wish Meraki Had Written:

Hi NetworkNerd,

I SIMPLY HAD TO create an account to say BIG THANK YOU for putting this together, so thoroughly and being so pedantic about details (just like me) with all information that one could possibly need. It saved my "bacon" two days ago when setting up S2S VPN between MX84 and ASA5510. I couldn't work out why it doesn't sync. Without your KB I'd have to reschedule an important project so again, thank you. I can only hope you got more of these coming.

You are most welcome. I'm so glad it helped someone! It was too crazy of a situation not to tell the story. I have more articles if you search for the networknerd blog tag in Mangolassi (https://mangolassi.it/tags/networknerd blog). And, I've recently created my own personal blog at http://blog.thenetworknerd.com that I try to update regularly with different content.

@coliver said in If You're Close to DFW and Can't Go to Spiceworld...Go to DFW VMUG UserCon!:

@jt1001001 said in If You're Close to DFW and Can't Go to Spiceworld...Go to DFW VMUG UserCon!:

@NetworkNerd There is an Upstate NY VMUG UserCon coming up 10/5. Based on your recommendation I'm going to try and attend! Thanks!

Where is that one?

https://www.vmug.com/Attend/VMUG-UserCon/New-York-New-Jersey-VMUG-UserCon-2017
https://www.vmug.com/Attend/VMUG-UserCon/Upstate-NY-VMUG-UserCon-2017

Definitely go if you can. Sometimes the technical marketing folks from VMware come too and answer whatever questions you want to ask. After all, the price is right (free).