Part 11 – VCF Automation – Constraints

VCF Automation will always try to find the most appropriate location to provision VMs to while taking things into consideration. If you've specified that the VM should be specifically deployed to a network labeled Production, then naturally all the clusters that meets all requirements except for having that Network will be filtered out as suitable … Continue reading Part 11 – VCF Automation – Constraints →

Part 7 – VCF Automation – NSX infra Microsegmentation

NSX microsegmentation will have two parts, one that explains how we can enforce security at a larger scale, and one that explains how we can create segmentation internally within a deployment. Wide/Infra microsegmentation When some people hear microsegmentation, they think they need to start by locking down everything at it's smallest component. That will be … Continue reading Part 7 – VCF Automation – NSX infra Microsegmentation →

Part 6 – VCF Automation – XaaS Microsoft AD

It's important to remember that VCF Automation does not just create Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS, the Ubuntu and Windows Templates), but also DaaS (Desktop as a Service), KaaS (Kubernetes as a Service), DBaaS (DataBase as a Service), and lastly XaaS (Anything as a Service). Ehh? Sounds ... vague? Well, … Continue reading Part 6 – VCF Automation – XaaS Microsoft AD →

Deploying vSAN Snapshot Service Appliance

Kind of wierd that i even need to write this blog post but i did have some issues getting the vSAN Snapshot Service deployed. I was writing a powershell automation to simplify this, and while asking William Lam some questions, it was discovered that he'd beaten me to it. So if you want to take … Continue reading Deploying vSAN Snapshot Service Appliance →

Part 5 – VCF Automation – Windows Template

So in the previous post we created a Ubuntu Template, but we also did some stuff to ensure that the Catalog would be visible. So if you're reading this post just for the windows template, you may want to review the Ubuntu post for this stuff. Property Group So we need to add a property … Continue reading Part 5 – VCF Automation – Windows Template →

Part 4 – VCF Automation – Ubuntu Template

Finally! Let's create a blueprint that we can then publish for consumption.Login to your Automation portal, Select Assembler and navigate to the Design tab. We're going to focus on Three things for now. Templates, Property Groups, and Project Secrets. Property Groups Propery groups are objects, that contain static variables that can be useful in Automation … Continue reading Part 4 – VCF Automation – Ubuntu Template →

Part 3 – VCF Automation – Housekeeping

Housekeeping So now let's start to configure some basic stuff that we'll use in the automation. Networking To both be able to create our Templates, and be able to provision VMs somewhere we are going to require networks. Out of the three pillars Compute, Storage, and Networking/Security, the Networking/Security part is always the hardest to … Continue reading Part 3 – VCF Automation – Housekeeping →

Can’t add Secondary Cells to vCloud Director cluster

I had an issue (self inflicted) where i needed to remove the two secondary Cells from vCloud Director deployment.After removing the two cells i'd broken, i proceeded to deploy two new secondary cells with the same version as my primary cell.I'm using signed certificates for all my 3 cells, and they're unique to each cell … Continue reading Can’t add Secondary Cells to vCloud Director cluster →

vCloud Director deployment doesn’t start :5480

After deploying the vCloud Director appliance, the next step is to browse to the https://cell-ip-address:5480 admin interface to perform initial setup, or supply the NFS share if it's a secondary node.In my case the :5480 port wasn't responding, but i saw the appliance failed to start NGINX.After sifting through the logs i found the error: … Continue reading vCloud Director deployment doesn’t start :5480 →

vCloud Director 10.5.0.0 with NSX-T LB Ciphers

NSX-T LB has been deprecated, but still exists in NSX-T 4.x. I find it convenient, and easy to manage, so i still use it in my vCloud Director deployment. When upgrading from 10.4.0.1 to 10.5.0.0 it was apparent that the SSL Ciphers that VCD now supports have changed, which denied anyone to login to the … Continue reading vCloud Director 10.5.0.0 with NSX-T LB Ciphers →