Tag: technology
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Automating an AD/DC/DNS server in a VCF Pod
Objective: Creating a complete nested pod from scratch containing ad/dc/dns, tftp, ntp and a complete VCF installation. Script functionality The script automates the initial configuration of a Windows server that will function as an Active Directory domain controller and DNS server. It performs the following configuration steps: Edit the configuration section to fit your needs.…
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Deploying applications in VKS
Deploy a simple two-tier application In the last post we prepared VKS, and we are now ready to try some more useful applications. Lets start with a two-tier application with a web frontend and a db. First i check if i have a suitable namespace to deploy to.I dont`t, so i create a new one…
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VKS mgmt vm on Photon 5.0
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 can find on: https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Downloading-Photon-OS It`s an ova, so easy to add to your cluster, and…
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Asymmetric routing after enabling VPC
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 needed a stable portal to be able to setup the endpoint with VCF-CLI. After troubleshooting…
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Holodeck & VCF9 part 2
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,…
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Holo-Lab Support files 5.1
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 here in your holo-console vm: c:\users\administrator\downloads\bionic-server-cloudimg-amd64.ova Now you are ready to open the Auto-Lab and…
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Fusion 13.x “Cannot open the disk or one of the snapshot disks it depends on. Module ‘Disk’ power on failed.”
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 while using e.g. Win11 as a vm in fusion i found that when leaving vm…
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Holodeck Toolkit 5.1 install
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…
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Aria Automation with ChatGPT part 2
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 think i could benefit from trying a smarter AI, like the 4.0. I started like…
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