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 Automation – Lab Setup

The lab setup that i will be using in this blog series is quite extensive. Yours does not have to be! Some of the options that i will be showing will add resiliency to your infrastructure, but most things only add capacity. You will need to determine what business requirements you have, and from that … Continue reading VCF9 Automation – Lab Setup →

VCF9 – Getting started with VCF Automation

So it's now been 130 days since the release of VMware Cloud Foundation 9. The release that's likely the largest single release released by VMware, where over 1 million hours of engineering was poured into making a unified private cloud platform. I've now spent a lot (a lot!) of time digging into the new VCF … Continue reading VCF9 – Getting started with VCF Automation →

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 →

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 →