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 RAID …

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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. Minimum Bandwidth Requirements vSAN ESA A minimum bandwidth of 25 Gbps is required, 10Gbit works but is only supported for the AF0 Config. For larger clusters or …

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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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Intro This post gives a few examples of Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster Manifests and how to deploy them. Prerequiries Successfull Installation of vSphere with Tanzu Supervisor vSphere Namespace created Already existing VM Classes, Storages Policies and Tanzu Kubernetes Releases assigned to the Namespace. Login via kubectl …

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Quick Tip: vSphere with Tanzu an HA-Proxy This is a short article with tips and tricks I experienced when deploying vSphere with Tanzu and HA-Proxy as a Load Balancer. Deploying Ha-Proxy OVA Network Alwasys use three NICs when deploying in a production environment. It is very important that these IP addresses do not …

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Kubernetes Cheat Sheet Cheat Sheet for kubectl, kubeadm and general k8s related commands. kubectl Interacting with clusters kubectl command description Comment kubectl config view View Kubectl Configuration Display the current Kubectl configuration kubectl config get-contexts List available contexts See the available …

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Huawei Versatile Routing Platform (VRP) Overview This post gives an overview about the network operating system for huawei network devices - VRP. General Task Command Comment Enter System View < Huawei > sys Enter Interface View [R1] int GigabitEthernet0/0/1 Enter Protocol View [R1] ospf 1 Display Running Config in …

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