Tag: NSX

  • 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…

  • Holodeck Toolkit 5.1 install

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    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 the google link to download the holodeck sw: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSelfYYIIRkfvgniLBJxXbHv62hmyxD_GAtzlh-lzi2YFiUICg/viewform Here you will come to a…

  • Microsegmentation «Zero Trust»

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    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 services you need, and this will get you only the ports necessary. To do this…

  • VMware Holodeck

    VMware Holodeck

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    Creating a VCF lab can be a rewarding endeavor. It involves setting up your own virtualization infrastructure, including configuring and managing VMware Cloud Foundation. This hands-on approach allows you to gain valuable experience with VCF deployment, operations, and troubleshooting.