No doubt, you’ve heard about the recent release of VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0 and its support for Kubernetes (K8s). Although you would like to play with the product, the resource requirements seem greater than the resources you have available. Today, I’m going to talk about how you can get a VCF 4.0 environment up and running with the least amount of resources…
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Multi-NIC, Multi-VDS, vSphere Cluster in VCF 4.0
It seems like a good time to have an update post on Multi-NIC “stuff” in VCF 4.0. Before we get to the creation of the cluster, I think it’s important to go over one of the biggest networking changes in VCF 4.0/vSphere 7.0. With vSphere 7.0 came the introduction of the vSphere Distributed Switch 7.0 and with that, some welcome changes that I haven’t really seen mentioned anywhere.
Password Lookup with VCF 4.0
In order to perform all the automation tasks it does, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) must be aware of how to communicate to all of the components in its environment. The method used to obtain a list of these accounts and the passwords used have changed from VCF version to version. Today, I’ll show you how to do this with VCF 4.0…
Continue reading Password Lookup with VCF 4.0Installing the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager (vrslcm) without AVNs with VCF 4.0
You’ve just deployed a brand-new VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0 instance. You’ve configured the VCF repository and have downloaded the vrslcm bundle. You think your all ready to start deploying VRSLCM, and then…
Continue reading Installing the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager (vrslcm) without AVNs with VCF 4.0Automating VCF 4.0 Edge Cluster Creation
Today, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 4.0 was released. One of the new features mentioned in the release notes is how the SDDC Manager now can automate the deployment of NSX Edge Clusters. Today, I’m going to show you how to automate that automation.
Continue reading Automating VCF 4.0 Edge Cluster CreationBorder Gateway Protocol (BGP) Troubleshooting
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 3.9.1 requires the configuration of BGP in order to deploy a new instance of VCF. If BGP is not configured properly, the deployment of VCF will fail as it will not be able to validate the communication to the Edge Service Gateways has been configured properly. In this post, I’m just going to quickly run through some methods you can use to attempt to troubleshoot a deployment that is failing due to a BGP issue.
Continue reading Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) TroubleshootingVMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) with VyOS
With the release of VCF 3.9.1, new VCF deployments require Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) be configured and functioning prior to initiating the VCF deployment. Using BGP simplifies the management of routes to the Application Virtual Networks (AVNs) deployed by VCF.
VMware Lab Constructor (VLC) provides an option to automatically configure the deployed Cloud Builder appliance to provide BGP services. But what if you want to provide your own infrastructure for your home lab? In this case, you have to provide BGP services within your environment. One method to do this is to use a software-based router, such as VyOS. Today, I’ll walk through how to configure VyOS to provide these services in your home lab.
Continue reading VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) with VyOSVCF Certificate Authority Integration
If you have ever had to manually change the certificates in a vSphere environment, you’ll appreciate the automation VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) provides. After connecting the VCF SDDC Manager to a Microsoft CA server, you are a few clicks away from being able to rotate the certificates for various VMware products.
Establishing the connection to the Microsoft CA server, however, requires that the Microsoft CA server is configured properly. Today, I’ll walk through the steps required to configure a Microsoft CA for use with VCF.
Continue reading VCF Certificate Authority IntegrationVLC- Expansion Pack – VCF 3.9.1
The expansion pack feature in VLC can be used for a few things;
1) Building nested hosts
2) Expanding your nested VCF implementation!
3) Testing the limits of your hardware <- You know you want to!
In this post we’re going to talk about Building Nested Hosts and I’m sure you’ll be able to figure out how to do the other two things on your own, or I’ll write a blog article on it! Make sure you follow the implementation guide for VLC with regards to PowerCLI and OVFtool versions and settings.
Continue reading VLC- Expansion Pack – VCF 3.9.1VLC-Build it for me, vRealize Operations deployment – VCF 3.9.1
If you’ve been following the VLC-Build it for me posts you should have VRSLCM up and running. As promised this exercise will be quite a bit shorter due to the work we put in getting VRSLCM built. vRealize Operations gives a view into operations management of both applications and infrastructure and, in the context of VCF, as you grow your solution help you plan, scale, and easily connect new Workload domains and their resources to be included in vROps pervue.
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