VMTECHIE

Author: vmtechie

  • Automate vCloud Director with Terraform Provider

    The new refreshed Terraform vCloud Director provider enables administrators and DevOps engineers to define vCloud Director “infrastructure as code” inside Terraform configuration files. This makes it an efficient automation and…

  • Configure HCX for Cloud to Cloud Migrations

    VMware HCX is an application mobility platform that is designed for simplifying application migration across cloud, workload rebalancing, and business continuity across data centers and across clouds. Application migration You…

  • vCloud Director 10 – NSX-T – Tenant Configuration

    In continuation of my previous post , in this post i will be covering tenant side configuration of vCloud Director 10 along with NSX-T. Create OrgVDC To provide resources to…

  • vCloud Director 10 – NSX-T – Provider Configuration

    As you may be aware vCloud Director from its inception initially was relying on vCNS and after that on NSX-V to provide on-demand , self service cloud networking capabilities and…

  • vCloud Director 10 : T-Shirt Sizing

    In vCloud Director 9.7 compute policies were introduced to offer/manage the T-shirt sizing of the VMs which i have covered in detail in my this post,  in vCloud Director 10…

  • vCloud Director 10 : VM Placement Policies

    vCloud Director 10 has introduced a new concept called VM placement policies which helps Cloud Provider to control the virtual machine (VM) placement on a specific cluster or host.VM placement policies…

  • Connect AWS Transit Gateway to VMware Cloud on AWS

    This post is to deploy AWS transit Gateway and connect with VMware Cloud on AWS. AWS Transit Gateway  AWS Transit Gateway is a service that helps customers to connect their…

  • Using vCD-CLI for vCloud Director

    VMware vCloud Director vCD-CLI  is a command line interface for vCloud Director using short, easy-to-remember commands to administer vCD. it also allows tenants to perform certain operations for convenience and…

  • Upgrade NSX-T 2.3 to NSX-T 2.4

    This blog is about how I upgraded my homelab from NSX-T from version 2.3 to version 2.4.First downloaded the NSX-T 2.4.x upgrade bundle (the MUB-file) from the My VMware download…

  • Setup RabbitMQ Server on Ubuntu for vCloud Director

    I am working on a Lab which require messaging queue server , so i setup this and thought of sharing the steps, so here it is.. AMQP is an open…

  • vCloud Director VM Maximum vCPU&RAM Size limits

    As you know vCloud Director 9.7 comes with a default compute policy for VDC , that does provide options for custom vm sizing and this can go out of control…

  • vCloud Director T-Shirt Sizing

    Many of my customer with whom i directly interact has been asking this feature from quite some time , few of them says that T-shirt sized based offering matches of…

  • Deploy VMware PKS – Part3

    In  continuation to  my PKS installation, we are now going to install and configure the PKS Control Plane which provides a frontend API that will be used by Cloud Operators…

  • vCloud Director 9.7 Portal Custom Branding

    Much awaited feature for cloud provider to match thier corporate  standards and to create a fully custom cloud experience, now with release on vCloud Director 9.7 you can set the…

  • Upgrade Postgres SQL 9 to 10 for vCloud Director

    Since vCloud Director 9.7 has dropped support for Postgres SQL9.5 , so i had to upgrade my postgres to 10 , then i have updated my vCloud Director to versions…

  • Deploy VMware PKS – Part2

    In this part I will begin PKS installation by deploying Pivotal Ops Manager which basically provides a management interface (UI/API) for Platform Operators to manage the complete lifecycle of both BOSH and PKS…

  • Deploy VMware PKS – Part1

    In Continuation of my previous blog post here , where i have explained PKS component and sizing details , in this post i will be covering PKS component deployment. Previous Post…

  • VMware Container Service Extension Upgrade

    With the release of new Container Service Extension (CSE) version 1.2.7 due to vulnerability related to docker (CVE-2019-5736 ) for both Ubuntu and Photon OS templates , it is very…

  • VMware CSE Upgrade Error – Missing keys in config file ‘service’ section: {‘enforce_authorization’}

    Trying to upgrade CSE to latest version of CSE 1.2.7 and during upgrade process facing error , like this: Missing keys in config file ‘service’ section: {‘enforce_authorization’} with this new…

  • VMware Container Service Extension Installation – Part-1

    In continuation of my last post on Kubernetes as a service on vCloud Director , here is the next post on installation of Container Server Extension on vCloud Director. This post…