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VMC on AWS – HCX – Site Pairing and interconnect

Oct 1, 2020

Hi, In this post, we’ll be talking about setting up a Site Pair and interconnect with HCX, between your on-prem datacenter and your VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC. Video version here. Written version: In this post, we are going to create a Site Pair in HCX and an interconnect. Like the name suggests, a site pair pairs two …

Collection of VMworld vRealize announcement posts

Sep 29, 2020

Hi, This blog post serves more as a collection of links to other blogs about new announcements that VMware has made during VMworld. 1. The new vRealize Cloud Universal offering. With this new hybrid subscription offering, VMware is providing customers the flexibility to consume both on-premise and SaaS vRealize Suite …

VMC on AWS – HCX – Deployment

Aug 23, 2020

Hi everyone, In this blog post, we will be going over how to deploy HCX on both your VMware on AWS SDDC and also on-prem. So what exactly is HCX? One of the main features of HCX is stretching networks between on-prem and your VMC on AWS SDDC. (It does not have to specifically be to/from a VMC SDDC). Also you can …

VMware Cloud on AWS with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid – Public IP on kubernetes load balancer.

Aug 13, 2020

Hi readers, In this post, we will be taking our previously deployed TKG workload cluster and make it accessible through a public IP using NAT. First, we deploy an application. I’ll use yelb. See the previous post on how that works. Here we see that our application is deployed. Let’s look at the load balancer IP. As we …

Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on On-Prem or VMC on AWS – Management and workload deployment

Aug 5, 2020

Hi everyone, In this post we will be making our own deployment VM to deploy Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on VMware Cloud on AWS. There is a demo appliance, but I would like to use the latest versions of everything. If you would like to know more about Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, please check out this link. This also works for …

I’m a vExpert now!

Jul 17, 2020

Hi everyone, I applied for the second-half vExpert applications and I got accepted! This is the first time and I’m really, really happy! This is my fourth attempt and here is to hopefully more years of vExpert. Here is my public profile page. If you don’t know what vExpert is, you are missing out on a lot, quoting from …

In-place upgrading a NSX-T ESXi Host with multiple host switches.

Jul 8, 2020

Hi everyone, Here is how I upgraded my NSX-T deployment from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1. If you tried to in-place update a NSX-T Host that has multiple host switches, you will get an error. You can use this trick to get around this limitation. First, we log into the NSX-T Manager, and go to the Upgrade tab under system. Here, we …

Setting up a free KMS server for vCenter with PyKMIP (with database)

Jun 12, 2020

Hi everyone, In this post, we will be deploying a PyKMIP server that stores its keys in a database. Unlike the docker container, the keys will be saved so on a reboot your keys are not lost. So what exactly is this for? Well, in my use-case, I will be using this server to encrypted virtual machine files and drives. For …

Horizon 7.11 Deployment – Part 5: Windows 10 Desktop Image (refers to TechZone for now, video coming soon!)

Jun 4, 2020

Hi everyone, Sadly during server maintenance, the contents of this blog posts were corrupted. For now, I will link you all to a TechZone article that explain you what to do. A video on this will be coming soon once I get to it. My apologies!

VMware Purple Screen of Death troubleshooting for random crashes with disk errors in the homelab.

Jun 4, 2020

Hi everyone, Time for a new blog post about the adventure I’ve been having for the past two days. On June 2nd, my server, a DL380G6 started to suddenly take-off. The fans were roaring at 70%, and the temperature sensor near the PCI Riser was showing 110 C. Of course this is not supposed to happen, in this blog post, I …