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 – 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 →

VCF9 – Creating a workload domain

Creating a workload domain involves multiple steps. Image the hosts with the correct ESXi version. Please refer to the Bill of Material (BOM) that correlates to the version of VCF you are deploying. If you are deploying, or running VCF 9.0.1.0 you would go to https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/vcf/vcf-9-0-and-later/9-0/release-notes/vmware-cloud-foundation-90-release-notes/vmware-cloud-foundation-bill-of-materials.html and find that the correct version of ESXi to … Continue reading VCF9 – Creating a workload domain →

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 →

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 →