Tag: vmware holodeck

  • 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 with 2 physical servers?

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    1 node configuration: During setup of the first pod, i found out that the minimum config is exactly that, minimum. If your Holodeck host is configured 60+ cores, 1,5TB memory, and 12TB SSDdisk, no problem, but if not, what then? Mgmt cluster w/Aria: You have a pod ready to go, installed almost all the Aria…

  • Holodeck HW

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    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…