VCF 9.1.0.0 – Darksite/Airgapped tutorial – Part 01 Initial Deployment

IntroductionTransporting binariesPreparing lin01Configure webserverDownload Binaries using VCF Download ToolTransfer lin01 from preparation area to darksiteDeploy the VCF InstallerDeploying VCF Management Domain Introduction In this series i'll walk through how to go about deploying, and managing a completely disconnected environment.Below is a diagram of what the environment looks like, it's a standard architecture design with a … Continue reading VCF 9.1.0.0 – Darksite/Airgapped tutorial – Part 01 Initial Deployment →

VCF9 – AllApps blueprints

A lot of customers are currently evaluating the VCF Automation AllApps tenancy feature. While it offers the ability to create completely custom deployments using the VM Service, VKS Service etc, some customers are looking to create blueprints that can be published, and consumed by their users. Currently there are quite few example blueprints out there, … Continue reading VCF9 – AllApps blueprints →

VCF9.0.2 – ArgoCD Service

VMware has released an Operator for the VMware Supervisor that will allow you to fill the "CD" gap of a CI/CD.I wont go too much into detail what a CI/CD is (Continious Integration / Continious Deployment), other than that this allows you to create a declarative state of both your infrastructure (VMs, Kubernetes, Networks, Load … Continue reading VCF9.0.2 – ArgoCD Service →

VCF9 – VM Service

After creating a Project, and a vSphere Namespace we can start consuming Services. Pre-installed in the vSphere Supervisor is a Operator called VM Service. This Service allows you to create a yaml manifest that defines the desired state of a Virtual machine, and have this provisioned inside of a vSphere Namespace. Regardless if you choose … Continue reading VCF9 – VM Service →

Omnissa Horizon Ubuntu Desktops

I've been running Windows 11 desktops in Horizon forever, and this works increadibly well. Not everyone is a Windows shop though, so i wanted to explore how well Linux desktops would work in Horizon. My distribution of choice has always been Ubuntu, so i went to Omnissas documentation website, and started digging into how to … Continue reading Omnissa Horizon Ubuntu Desktops →

VCF9 – Create Organization in VCF-A

So at this point if you're following along you should now have a workload domain, with at least one cluster, and an nsx-edge cluster setup. Now let's setup VCF-A, and create an Organization. Browse to your VCF-A fqdn. To login to the Provider interface, you enter system as the Organization. It should now state that … Continue reading VCF9 – Create Organization in VCF-A →

VCF9 – Enable Supervisor using 3 Zones

Okey, if you're following along on the blog series, now we're getting to the fun stuff! To recap, at this point i've created 3 clusters in a Workload Domain, and also deployed a NSX Edge-Cluster that spans two of the Clusters to gain high availability on network ingress/egress. The first thing we need to is … Continue reading VCF9 – Enable Supervisor using 3 Zones →

VCF9 – Deploy NSX Edge-Cluster

After you've deployed a Workload Domain, or a new Cluster, you may want to deploy an NSX Edge-Cluster. You should be aware that there are now two methods you can use to get traffic into, and out of your SDN when using VPCs. These are called Centralized and Distributed Transit Gateway. You can read more … Continue reading VCF9 – Deploy NSX Edge-Cluster →

VCF9 – Adding a Cluster

This post is a continuation of the post VCF9 – Creating a workload domain, which automatically creates a Cluster when creating the Workload Domain. But what if you require more clusters? Maybe you want to create a dedicated cluster for your databases? Maybe you want to run Kubernetes over 3 different zones for high availability? To … Continue reading VCF9 – Adding a Cluster →