Hello readers, In this part, we will be deploying VMware Cloud Foundation in a nested environment using vCF Lab Constructor, which you can read more about here. TLDR: it is a PowerShell script designed to automatically deploy vCF along with the management Workload Domain (WLD). VCF Lab Constructor (aka VLC) is a great …

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Hi everyone, This post will be about a nice trick I learned to get the maximum out of your VMware Homelab. TPS, or Transparent Page Sharing, is a function where, in short, multiple identical virtual memory pages are pointing to the same page within the memory of the host. Here is a whitepaper that goes more in-depth. …

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Hi readers, Currently, I temporarily have access to a server with enough memory to run a Cloud Foundation lab until January 2nd 2020. This gave me the inspiration to build a Cloud Foundation lab and tinker around with it, along with tinkering with an automatic lab deployment script called VLC (VCF Lab Constructor). …

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Hello! Inspired by my last blog post, here are more PowerCLI scripts to make life easier. Script one; get VMs on a specific host with a specific Port Group $viserver = "vCenter IP/FQDN here" $t_host = "ESXi FQDN/IP here as used in vCenter" $portgroup = "port group name here" Connect-VIServer $viserver Get-Cluster …

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Hi everyone, In this post I am sharing a PowerCLI script that I made in order to easily migrate VMs from one network to the other. There are two versions of this script, one version has a hard-coded ESXi/vCenter instance, and the other one asks for the vCenter on each run. Version 1 (hard coded ESXi/vCenter): Do { …

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Hi everyone, This post will be out about me moving back from NSX-T to NSX-V due to weird deploying issues. NSX-V is no longer being developed, so this has caused me to try to migrate to the new NSX-T, however I moved back to NSX-V when my NSX-T Edge nodes started to fail. The Geneve tunnels to the ESXi host randomly …

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Hey everyone, As some of you know, I have my own IPv4 and IPv6 subnet, along with my own Autonomous System Number, in my case AS208751. I am not a LIR (Local Internet Registry, you can read more about that here.) myself, so I had to get a sponsoring LIR to request my ASN. Once that was taken care off, I got myself a …

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Hello everyone, Here’s an update on both my personal and lab situation. First of all, thank you for the few that have send me an email giving some advise and such. It is very much appreciated. Luckily, I am now able to go to a place where I get to work with servers and networking. They’ve even asked me to set up a …

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Hello readers, Welcome to my new blog post, in this post I’ll be sharing some ideas that I had. For the past few weeks I have been thinking of creating posts about setting up a nested ESXi lab with NSX and vSAN. I thought to myself: “Why not make both a blog post and a YouTube tutorial?”. Which is exactly what I will …

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Hi readers, This short post will be about how I had to set-up a static route on ESXi to my VPN subnet. My setup is as follows: I have an ESXi server in DC1, and a ESXi server at home. The Home ESXi server has vCenter and vRealize Operations Manager on it. My goal was to have vRealize Operations Manager give rightsize …

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