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Running Plex Media Server in a VM
This is a description on how to setup Plex Media Server to run as a virtual machine on vSphere. I am using Linux distribution and exposing CPU integrated Intel UHD Graphics 630 for accelerated...
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Extending VCD Media Catalog Storage with vSAN
VMware Cloud Director stores ISO catalog media in a directory structure on one or more datastores backing the storage policy assigned to the catalog. The directory structure looks like this: <VCD...
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Enforce Maximum Duration for Cloud Director API Tokens
Recently released VMware Cloud Director 10.6.1 adds support for enforcement of maximum duration of API Tokens. It is API only feature configured with the following call: PUT...
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Stateless Firewall Support in Cloud Director
With the new Broadcom licensing changes related to NSX only the stateless firewall is included in the base VCF/NSX license while statefull firewall needs to be licensed separately. VMware Cloud...
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GMKTec K8 Plus – vSphere Mini Lab
In an effort to downsize even more my home lab from Shuttle PCs that were (in the past) considered compact I decided to explore the impressive, powerfull and small GMKTec mini PCs. With NVMe drives...
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Quick Guide to VCF Automation for VCD Administrators
VMware Cloud Foundation 9 (VCF 9) has been released and with it comes brand new Cloud Management Platform – VCF Automation (VCFA) which supercedes both Aria Automation and VMware Cloud Director (VCD)....
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Deploying VCF 9 in a Minilab
Recently released VCF 9 combines vSphere 9, NSX 9, new Lifecycle and Operational tooling via VCF Operations, Fleet Management and Logs and with brand new fully multitenant cloud management platform...
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VCF Automation – How to Create Provider Managed Blueprint
Content Hub in VCF Automation provides access to Content Libraries which store VM templates (OVA) and media (ISO), VM images (OVA templates), custom Orchestrator workflows and Blueprints. Blueprints...
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VCF 9 – Converting Brownfield Deployment
One of the ways how to start using VMware Cloud Foundation 9 is to convert existing vSphere environment. Let’s have a look what is the process. VCF Fleet VCF consists of a Fleet Management with one or...
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VCF 9 – Importing Brownfield Environment
In my previous blog post I described how you can convert existing brownfield vSphere 8 environment into your first VMware Cloud Foundation 9 instance including Fleet Management. In this article we...
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Load Balancing VCF Automation with Avi
This post describes how to configure Avi Load Balancer in front of of VCF Automation (VCFA) to provide more secure access to the cloud service. Usage of Avi Load Balancer for tenant IaaS services is...
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Accessing VCF Automation Deployed K8s Cluster with VCF CLI
1. Install VCF CLI: link. Note that I had issues with the Windows version, so I used Ubuntu WSL subsystem instead. 2. Install kubectl: link 3. As end-user log into VCFA console and make sure you have...
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Deploying Databases in VCF Automation with kubectl
VCF Automation (VCFA) can provide DBaaS when integrated with VMware Data Services Manager (DSM). In version 9.0 it provides deployment and management of PostgreSQL and MySQL databases . However only...
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How to Restore Missing Default VCF Services UI Plugins in VCF Automation
If you accidently delete VCF Services tiles from VCF Automation, there is an easy way to restore them. For example let’s delete the DSM service tile. Tile is now gone. To restore we need to ssh to one...
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Quick Demo: VCF Automation Cloud Application Deployment
To demonstrate how a cloud-first microservice application can be quickly deployed into VCF Automation managed Kubernetes Cluster I will use Online Boutique demo app. This app consists of multiple...
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RBAC in a VCF Automation Deploy Shared VKS Cluster
In VCF Automation when a project administrator deploys Kubernetes VKS cluster they can download kubeconfig file from the UI or via VCF CLI to deploy applications on the cluster. In this blog post I...
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Resizing VCFA 9.0 Namespace
In VCF Automation compute and storage resources are consumed by tenant organizations via Namespace construct which tenant creates in a project and assigns to it resources from their regional quota....
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VMware Certified Advanced Professional – VCFA 9.0
Broadcom announced three new (VMware) software Advanced Certifications (VCAP) and thus still with the VMware brand. The first two of them are already available to schedule: VMware Certified Advanced...
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VCF Automation 9.0 Networking Deep Dive
When talking to customers that are adopting VCF 9 with VCF Automation I realized there is confusion on how the networking should be set up especially related to the new concepts such as supervisor,...
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Monitoring VKS Cluster in VCF Automation
VCF Automation (VCFA) provides very easy way to deploy vSphere Kubernets Service (VKS) Clusters in a multitenant environments. This can be done via UI, Kubernetes API or CLI. This is in my opinion the...
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