Tag: VCF
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Supervisor cluster with VPC on VCF 9.0
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…
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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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Holodeck & VCF9
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…
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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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Aria easy installer in HoloDeck
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…
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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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Copy/paste with VI to esxi
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 used for the preparation of VCF for importing the excel file with all the info…
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Aria Automation with ChatGPT part 3
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 Platforms 3. Container Platforms 4. Private and Hybrid Clouds 5. Other Integrations 6. Traditional IT…
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Holodeck HW
I have another post about setting up the VMware HoloKit, but this post is about the HW needed. The first test was a “lego-build”, a decommisioned Cisco server with memory from a Dell server, CPU`s from a Cisco blade, SSDdisks from another Cisco server, and so on, you get the picture. Eventually we had something…
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How to Change VMware ESXi Machine Certificates
Changing VMware esxi machine certificates. I recently needed this, and the vmware documentation is describing a lot more steps than i think is needed. I had some nested esxi servers with the wrong hostname/IP, so i changed it, but i also needed to fix the machine certificate to reflect my recent change. vstellar.com has a…
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