Tag: vmware
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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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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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ESXi CLI upgrade from v.8.02->
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 profile instead. EXAMPLE: esxcli software profile update –depot=”/path to depot file” –profile=”name of esxi profile”…
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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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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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Microsegmentation «Zero Trust»
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…
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