Last year I decided to start a YouTube channel to share VMware-related tutorials and demos. I have to admit I felt the same hesitance as when I started my blog several years ago. There is so much rich content on VMware technology already available on YouTube. What value am I going to add? These were ...
Nakivo Backup and Replication allows you to replicate Virtual Machines with a wide range of options. You can replicate between vCenters, clusters and so on. This blogpost provides a quick overview of the setup and configuration of a replication job. To create a replication job, click Create and then click VMware vSphere replication job on the Dashboard: My homelab contains ...
In my previous video and blogpost, I explained how I set up a fully nested vSphere 7 homelab with NSX-T. In this video tutorial, I’m adding a second VyOS appliance and a second NSX-T Edge Node to my homelab. The video covers setting up the proper Edge Uplink profiles, configuring the Edge Nodes, and finally ...
In my previous video and blogpost, I explained how I set up a fully nested vSphere 7 homelab with NSX-T. Now I want to go back to basics with NSX-T Logical Networking. There is so much exciting content out there on some of the most advanced use cases for NSX-T and last week I realized, ...
Setting up vSphere 7 with Kubernetes I recently upgraded my VMware homelab to vSphere 7 Update 1. One of the major new features of vSphere 7 Update 1 is the introduction of vSphere 7 with Kubernetes without requiring a full VMware Cloud Foundation deployment. vSphere 7 with Kubernetes now supports a bring your own network, ...
In my previous video and blogpost, I explained how I set up a fully nested vSphere 7 homelab in a single box. This new video gives a basic explanation about how I set up NSX-T in a nested homelab: Topics covered in the video Transport Zones Uplink Profiles Transport Node Profiles ESXi Transport Nodes Edge ...
With roughly two weeks to go, VMworld 2020 is just around the corner. The number of sessions available in the catalog is HUGE! If I just look at the number of sessions available with the general (free!) pass … wow! The schedule builder allows you to easily search and filter through the catalog. All sessions ...
Five reasons why I’m looking forward to VMworld 2020 Digital Edition I’m not going to do a big introduction and talk about the pandemic to explain why VMworld 2020 will be a digital online event. If you’re reading this blogpost, I’m guessing you already know: September 29th – October 1st 2020 will go in the ...
Nakivo introduced support for Office 365 in their Backup & Replication v9.2 release in February 2020. This blogposts takes you through the necessary steps to set up data protection for Office 365. The high level architecture of the solution is shown in the following diagram: Adding the Microsoft 365 Account to the Inventory The first ...
VMware recently added data protection capabilities to Tanzu Mission Control (TMC). Data protection allows you to backup and restore Kubernetes clusters managed by Tanzu Mission Control. Data protection is enabled by the opensource Velero project that came with the Heptio acquisition. For testing purposes, I created a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) cluster on AWS EC2. ...