• In a previous post i configured a supervisor cluster with VPC, and now i am ready to configure the rest and have a mgmt vm i can use with all the right tools. I chose VMware Photon 5.0 that you…

  • Ok, the VPC and Supervisor was up and running, but when trying to reach the supervisor API server, it was highly unpredictable. Trying to reach the portal i reached it 6 out of 10 times. Something was wrong and i…

  • After installing VCF 9.0 it was time to setup the Supervisor cluster. This would give me VKS, vSphere Kubernets Service, what we earlier called Tanzu. To do this i had some pre-requisites and some options. What network to use, meaning…

  • After trying a deploy like described in the previous post this was my config: I found out that a full deploy takes up too much resources on my physical host, because the automation vm consumes 1 nested host alone with…

  • Finally there are some news about the transition from the core.vmware.com pages ,and Holodeck info is now here: https://vmware.github.io/Holodeck/ Here you can find info about configuring either VCF5.2 or VCF9. The components and prereq has changed a bit, and now…

  • After the migration of the VMware website to Broadcom there where some confusion with the links we where used to, and William Lam has made a great list: I listed some of them here:

  • Looking at the supportfiles for testing in your VCF-lab, we need some support vms, and the source iso is not included in the files. You can download the Ubuntu here: $src = “https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/bionic/release/ubuntu-18.04-server-cloudimg-amd64.ova”$ova = “ubuntu-18.04-server-cloudimg-amd64.ova” rename to:bionic-server-cloudimg-amd64.ova then put it…

  • So easy installer is complete, now what? Well, you need a few more steps if you want orchestrator fully integrated with vCenter and vRa. Check your inventory, and verify vAPI and vSphere vCenter Server. we start with vAPI. Go to…

  • When deploying a VCF installation with VLC Holodeck you need to deploy the Aria software, that means Aria Lifecycle manager, Aria Identity manager and Aria Automation. We have a few others as well, but will be covered in another post.…

  • So i have been using VMware Fusion a while now on my Intel based MacBook Pro, but my latest MacBook Pro had ARM cpu, and that seemed to change a few things. The most obvious was the OS support, but…