Ever have a host in your VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environment die suddenly? Ever had an issue adding a new host back into your VCF environment because you have no available IP addresses left in your Network Pool? Let’s talk about this and I’ll show you some ways to address this!
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Log4J Workarounds for VCF
By now, I’m sure you’ve heard about the latest security vulnerability with Log4J. This is certainly something that you should address immediately! Today I’ll quickly cover what the vulnerability is and how you can address the issue within a VMware Cloud Foundation environment…
Continue reading Log4J Workarounds for VCFKeystore Management with VCF
Keystores contain certificates used by Java-based applications to authenticate and encrypt HTTPS traffic. VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) leverages a keystore and automates a significant part of the interaction with it. As a result, management of the keystore is often overlooked.
In this article, I’ll discuss the keystore used by VCF, why you would need to manage it, and demonstrate some of the commands you might use.
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Most platforms today implement a password aging system that requires a user to change the passwords used within a specific interval or have access automatically disabled. VMware is no different. By default, password aging is enabled on most VMware products, including vCenter, NSX, and so on.
In this article, I’ll discuss what can happen when passwords expire within a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environment and demonstrate how you can avoid issues.
Continue reading When passwords expire…VMware Cloud Foundation Security
Securing a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environment can be a daunting task at times. There are several products that can be deployed, and each has specific things that need to be looked at. It’s especially important to think of VCF as a solution though, as actions that you may take on an individual product can impact the functionality of the solution as a whole. Today, however, this just got a bit easier…
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You just downloaded the latest version of the VMware Cloud Foundation Lab Constructor (VLC) so you can deploy a nested version of VMware Cloud Foundation in your lab. You’ve read all the articles and followed the directions. You kick off the deployment and…. It fails with a BGP error.
Now what? Today I’ll show you something that might help…
Continue reading BGP Error at VCF DeploymentBuilding a VCF lab with pfSense (Part 3)
Part 3: Deploying VCF
In the previous parts of this series, I discussed the architecture of the environment and we went through the configuration of pfSense. Now it’s time to get our SDDC deployed in our home lab, using VLC to drive VMware Cloud Foundation.
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Part 2: Configuring pfSense
In the last article, I explained the environment that we would work towards building out. Now that we have the plan down, let’s get started by getting pfSense configured.
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Part 1: Defining the Architecture
Building a lab running VCF is made easy through the use of the VCF Lab Constructor (VLC). When run in the ‘automated’ mode, VLC will build out a nested environment and deploy VCF in it. It even abstracts a lot of the networking setup to make it as easy as possible. But what if you want to build out the network manually? In this series of posts, I’ll walk you through doing exactly that!
Continue reading Building a VCF lab with pfSense (Part 1)Minimalistic VCF 4.0 Deployments with Kubernetes
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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