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 →

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 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 →