Following my first tests in a nested environment, I wanted to deploy VMware Cloud Foundation 3.7 on physical machines this time. I received a couple of prepared ESXi hosts on which I planned to deploy vCF. During the configuration file validation however I received following message: “Host <HOST-IP> found zero SSD devices for SSD cache … Read more vCF validation fails – Found zero SSD devices
The usual way to download the upgrade bundles in VMware Cloud Foundation 3.5 is in the SDDC Manager Dashboard. After entering the credentials of your My VMware account under Administration –> Repository Settings in the SDDC Manager, you will find the bundles in Repository –> Bundles as described in the official documentation. I won’t describe the whole … Read more Download vCF Upgrade Bundles using a proxy server
vCF deployment preparation In the last article I described how I prepared my underlying infrastructure for the deployment of vCF. This one details the preparation steps required to deploy vCF. Before starting the deployment process, following tasks are required: Download Deployment VM (I used version 3.5 – vcf-cloudbuild-3.5.0.0-11215871_OVF10.ova) Download Deployment Parameter Sheet (vcf-ems-deployment-parameter_3.5.xlsx) Complete Deployment … Read more VMware Cloud Foundation 3.5 Nested Deployment – Part 2
Introduction After attending a couple of sessions about VMware Cloud Foundation at VMworld I wanted to try deploying it myself and see how it works. I prepared myself, read a couple of documents like the Architecture and Deployment Guide and the Operations and Administrations Guide and started planning my first deployment. I managed to get … Read more VMware Cloud Foundation 3.5 Nested Deployment – Part 1
This year was quite exciting in regard to my professional career. Early in 2018 I started with software defined networking and took the VCP-NV exam. After having worked a lot with legacy infrastructure before, this was a game changer for my career. Then in summer I took the decision to quit my old position as … Read more My year review – and what’s next?
Introduction As I started recently to concentrate more IT automation (e.g. for infrastructure, containers or even cloud) I decided to start playing with Ansible. In the last couple of weeks and months I heard about Ansible quite often, which is why I wanted to know more about it. So what is Ansible? Ansible is an … Read more Ansible – Getting started – Part 1
Between 5th and 8th November VMware organized again the European Edition of its famous VMworld conference at the Fira in Barcelona. This time, for VMware’s 20th anniversary there were according to VMware about 12.000 visitors, which is a new record for the European version of VMworld. Like last year I found it very interesting and … Read more My VMworld 2018 Europe review and experience
Over the last years I have been working almost only on the infrastructure management. Almost 6 years ago I was in a team, which managed (and still does) the virtual part of the environment. The last two years I have been working as an infrastructure architect for the same environment. Now however I have come … Read more New career path
The issue I recently had an issue to solve with an NSX(-v) instance in which the default firewall rule had been set to reject without an exception defined for the vCenter Server. As a result, the communication between the vCenter Server appliance and NSX Manager was interrupted, which blocked vCenter Server completely from accessing the … Read more Restoring vCenter access after being blocked by a Deny All rule in NSX DFW
The problem I had the issue with a crashed vCenter Server which was configured on an non-ephemeral portgroup and was disconnected. As the vCenter Server was down, and the portgroup was a non-ephemeral one, no new ports could be allocated. In that particular case a new standard vSwitch has to be created, vCenter needs to … Read more Repair disconnected vCenter Server when no ephemeral portgroup is available
