Intro ArgoCD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. It's designed to make application deployment and lifecycle management automated, auditable, and easy to understand. Key features and concepts of ArgoCD include: GitOps Methodology: Argo CD uses Git repositories as the source of truth for …

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vCenter Troubleshooting Guide The following Troubleshooting Guide applies to vCenter 8 and above. Caution! Create a VM Snapshot of your vCenter before proceeding with any step! General Troubleshooting Log files can be accesses trough ssh or bash. SSH login works with the root user or your SSO Admi User (commonly …

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The new VCF 5.2 Update delivers quite a few interesting updates. This blog post covers expecially the updates and improvements for Tanzu. Part 1 covers new Feature within Tanzu on vSphere 8 Update 3. vSphere with Tanzu Update -> vSphere IaaS Control Plane vSphere with Tanzu is passé - the new naming is vSphere IaaS …

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Getting started with the vSphere API The vSphere REST API, introduced in vSphere 6.5, represents a significant leap forward in managing and automating VMware environments. This modern, developer-friendly interface offers a more streamlined approach to interacting with vSphere compared to its predecessor, the SOAP-based …

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Intro With vCenter File-level Backups you can restore your entire vCenter configuration. If your running vCenter has some misconfigurations (eg. a false proxy setting) and isn't working, you can use existing file-level backups and clear those misconfigurations before restoring. Basic Process The Basic vCenter …

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Tanzu Portfolio explained Lately, we've been having lots conversations internally and with customers about Tanzu. There appears to be some confusion about Tanzu's portfolio and which Tanzu products are best suited for specific use cases. Update November 2024 With the VMware aquisition by Broadcom, the are some changes …

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Problem Recently I got my hands on some old HPE 3PAR 1.92TB SAS SSDs (Samsung PM1633a). I though they would be perfect for my SDDC home lab - sadly they did not work as intended with my HPE DL360 server. The SmartArray P420i was recognizing the disks but was giving the error "This physical drive does not support …

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TKG Bootstrap Machine on Fedora Tanzu Kubernetes Grid needs a workstation to bootstrap your Kubernetes Cluster. This is a short guide for a Fedora based bootstrap Machine: Requirements Ability to run Docker Access to download Tanzu CLI (via Customer Connect Portal) dedicated admin user in the wheel-group Install Docker …

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Intro VMware vSAN is a Hyperconverged Infrastructure Solution from VMware. It basically turns your servers direct attached disks into a storage cluster. General Requirements 10 GbE network switches are the minimum requirement for all-flash vSAN Clusters 25 GBE network switches are recommended Switches that support …

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vSphere Monitoring with TIG (Telegraf, InfluxDB, Grafana) This blog post describes a solution for monitoring SDDC infrastructure using Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana. This solution is based on Docker and displays graphs and metrics via Grafana. All metrics are described in the telegraf.conf file. TL;DR: …

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