• Ok, so we are installing the Holodeck Toolkit 5.1 There is still missing some documentation from the Broadcom site, so lets hope they migrate everything to the new broadcom pages soon and makes them available. In the mean time… Use…

  • Some times you may need to copy a script or textfile from your mgmt desktop to a vmware mgmt vm. In my case, this happened during VCF install and configuring the CloudBuilder VM. This is a linux vm and is…

  • As Broadcom aquired VMware, the Holodeck web pages have been moved and migrated, so for a while now, Holodeck setup info and documentation has been unavailable. They where located on core.vmware.com, and are (according to Broadcom) in a transition phase.…

  • Starting from v.8.0u2, esxi changed how you can upgrade your esxi host from within CLI, esxcli software vib install -d “path to depot file” do not work anymore. KB here: https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/380215/esxi-version-change-is-not-allowed-using.html You now have to define depot location and esxi…

  • As i quickly realized in part 1 and 2, the yaml file was incomplete and needed some different approach when asked for an output. One thing was the many different templates you can create: 1. VMware Infrastructure 2. Public Cloud…

  • We talk about Tanzu, but what are the differences between a supervisor cluster and a TKG cluster? In VMware’s Kubernetes ecosystem, a Supervisor Cluster and a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) Cluster serve different but complementary roles. Here’s an overview of…

  • Creating a Cloud Template yaml file using chatgpt v.4.0: So in previous post i tested the creation of a yaml file from ChatGPT. My first experience was that it was missing some info in the file, and that made me…

  • In another post about automation, i tested the creation of Cloud Templates in Aria Automation using ChatGPT. This can also be done for the kubernetes yaml files. This YAML file describes a TKG workload cluster configuration, using Cluster API (CAPI).…

  • Creating a Cloud Template yaml file using chatgpt v.3.5: Aria Automation Cloud Templates are based on yaml files and powershell scripts, as well as some Orchestrator Workflows. I was curious about using ChatGPT to create the basic config in the…

  • With NSX we could use microsegmentation for the east-west traffic, and in a greenfield DC config, we could start with “zero trust” meaning all vms and ports are default deny or drop. Then you add rules opening up for the…