Hello reader, For a while I’ve been having an idea for an offering I have not been able to find anywhere. Currently, if you want to pay for VMware Cloud on AWS through a credit card, you have to pay $2000 up-front which expires after 60 days. Not everyone can do this, so this is where this comes in. The idea is that …

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Hi everyone, In this post, I want to highlight an issue I had. I wanted to create a VPN Service, connected to a Tier 0 gateway. But none of my tier 0 gateways would show up. I couldn’t find any information on this, not even in the documentation (it’s well hidden and unless you know what to look for, it’s not easily …

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Hi everyone, For this post, we’re going to look into all the gear I have in my lab. Note that these are all links and prices that I paid for at the time. Let’s start with compute. I will list a table here of the servers. NOTE: This BoM is outdated and is yet to be updated pending upgrades that I'm saving up for. …

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Hi everyone, For those who follow me and sometimes chat with me, you probably know that I am a big fan of VMware TestDrive. I don’t hear a lot about it, but I think it’s something great and very useful. What is VMware TestDrive exactly? To quote them: “With ready-made integrations with some of our most popular …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Hi everyone, This post will be all about me and how I got into the world of IT. (not covering anything else like school, etc because then it would be even longer, for that, I forward to this older post) When I was born, and currently still do, I live with two “families” under one roof. A few years ago, the house was …

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