Tag: vSphere
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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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vCenter “Dark site” install
Installing vcenter without DNS & NTP I recently had to install an offline install of vCenter, and this could give you some grey hair if you don`t configure this the way vCenter want`s to. After downloading the iso file you mount it and browse to the setup.exe file in the vcsa-ui-installer You choose a basic…
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Windows server Eval registration
I have lately setup a few windows mgmt jumpserver vm`s, some temporary and some permanent, and when downloading the eval iso from windows, there is a specific process for changing the eval key, and setting a permanent key.This could be quite annoying if you don`t change from eval to permanent key. This is what worked…
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