Tag: cloud

  • Supervisor cluster with VPC on VCF 9.0

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    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 VPC, NSX or VDS. By choosing this i soon found out that i had to…

  • Holodeck & VCF9 part 2

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    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 24 cores. That is twice the amount of cores compared to the other 3 hosts,…

  • Holodeck & VCF9

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    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 you have a new Holorouter with a lot more functionality. The Holodeck guide describes this…

  • Aria easy installer in HoloDeck

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    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. Just one tip: Check if your console-vm that you run the installer from can reach…

  • Supervisor cluster vs TKG cluster or both?

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    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 each and the key differences between them: VMware Supervisor Cluster Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) Cluster…

  • Deploying Tanzu Kubernetes Grid with YAML

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    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). Explanation: This YAML configuration creates a Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster named “example-cluster” with one control plane…

  • Windows server Eval registration

    Windows server Eval registration

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    I have lately setup a few windows mgmt jumpserver vm`s, some temporary and some permanent, and when downloading the eval iso from windows, there is a specific process for changing the eval key, and setting a permanent key.This could be quite annoying if you don`t change from eval to permanent key. This is what worked…