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VMware Octant
As I have been discovering more with K8s, I have been growing to be a fan of VMware Octant. As defined by the open source project: A highly extensible platform for developers to better understand the complexity of Kubernetes clusters. Octant is a tool for developers to understand how applications run on a Kubernetes cluster.…
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Kubernetes as a Service utilizing Nirmata and VMware vCloud Director
Over two years ago, VMware had released vCloud Director Container Service Extension (CSE). The idea back then was to allow service providers to spin Kubernetes Clusters for their customers at ease with a single command line. CSE has as well allowed our VMware Cloud Providers to offer Kubernetes Clusters as a self service, where Tenants…
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vCloud Director 10.0 is here!!
For those who were following VMware vCloud Director Evolution lately, it has been developing quite fast and new features have been added continuously at a none matched speed. The development vCloud Director had over the past couple of years just amaze me as has surpassed what was delivered in 6 years development cycle previously. vCloud…
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How to force delete a PKS Cluster
There are times when you want to delete a PKS Cluster, but the deletion with the usual cPKS delete-cluster command fails. pks delete-cluster <PKS Cluster Name> This is usually due to issues with that cluster either it failed for some reason during deployment or it was alternate into a way that destabilize it. No worry,…
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Installation of NSX 6.4 VIB on ESXi 6.7 host failed
I have often got to interact with customers who had an issue getting the NSX VIB installed on their ESXi host. Most of the time, it is a tedious configuration issue or a step that they have forgotten. I have hit a similar issue today in my lab with me missing a simple step and wanted…
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How to remove orphaned VM from vCenter the easy way
I have lately had few orphaned VMs in my Home Lab vCenter, as I was recreating my setup. Some of the Virtual machines were deleted directly from ESXi host, but still had records in the vCenter inventory. Below how orphaned VMs looked in my vCenter. I have looked online for a way to remove these orphaned…
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Executing vRealize Orchestrator workflows using Rest API
I have been lately involved in conducting integration between vCloud Director and a Cloud Provider Market Place. The Cloud Provider wanted to use vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) for this integration, as there is different integrations point they wanted to integrate with beyond vCloud Director and they did not want to learn multiple APIs. What is nice…
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‘WIRE’ is a free self-paced learning platform to our Cloud Providers and Aggregation partners
VMware had released VMware WIRE for free to our Cloud Providers and Aggregators. It is a free self-paced learning platform with tons of amazing contents. WIRE offers VMware products and Solutions ennoblement for level (L100) sales level, (L200) Technical, and sometime (L300) Deep Technical. If you have been looking for great VCPP Training materials for…
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VMware vCloud Availability 3.0 Update
The long waited VMware vCloud Availability 3.0 will be released soon, so I thought to share some update about the exciting set of features of what’s coming. If you have been following up the evolution of VMware vCloud Availability, you will find many of your wishes and requests are materializing in vCAv 3.0. VMware vCloud…
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VMware Cloud Provider Pod 1.1 released
Great news, VMware Cloud Provider Pod 1.1 has been released on January 31, 2019. Now the new release include a more recent versions of VMware Cloud Provider stack as below: vSphere 6.7u1 vSAN 6.7u1 NSX 6.4.4 vCloud Director 9.5.0.1 vCloud Director Extender 1.1.0.2 vRealize Orchestrator 7.5 vRealize Operations 7.0, including Multi-Tenant App 2.0 VMware vRealize Operations…
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VMware Usage Meter 3.6.1 HotPatch 2 is RELEASED
VMware Usage Meter 3.6.1 HotPatch 2 is Released with a good amount of enhancements and bug fixes. It is highly recommended to apply Usage Meter 3.6.1 HotPatch 2. Below is a summary of the main fixes and improvement included in HotPatch 2. What’s new: Bugfixes for Auto reporting or manual generation of reports in vCloud…
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vCD External Networks Creation fail: Gateway cannot be equal to the network definition
I have a Cloud Provider involving me lately, as they kept getting the error below every time they tried to create an External Network in vCloud Director 9.5. “Gateway cannot be equal to the network definition” It was an interesting error message especially in my customer case, where they were confident of providing the right…
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vCenter 6.7 Appliance fails after the first reboot
I have been getting few requests lately of vCenter 6.7 Appliance installation fails after the first reboot. It sounds like a common theme mostly in lab environments. Below is one of the quite few similar errors that I have received. “A problem occurred during setup. Services might not be working as expected – Starting VMware…
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vCloud Availability for Cloud-to-Cloud DR 1.5 is here!
The vCloud Availability for Cloud-to-Cloud DR 1.5 has been made available today! vCAv C2C 1.5 has come with a number of great enhancements highlighted below: An improved user interface that can be embedded into vCloud Director and allows tenant and service provider users to perform DR operations and monitor DR environments from within vCloud Director. Service…
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VMware Usage Meter Support!
If you are a service provider that is a part of VMware Cloud Provider Program (VCPP) which formerly known as vCAN, then you had to use VMware Usage Meter to report usage. At certain time you might need help either with failure during setting up VMware Usage Meter or you need help troubleshooting an issue…