I have been getting quite a few inquiries about my fully nested VMware homelab setup. People seem to be struggling mostly with setting up the networking bits. I describe the overall topology in this blogpost but this blogpost will contain a lot more details on the network configuration. I also made a couple of changes, ...
Update April 15th 2020: William Lam reached out and asked me to provide the vm-support log bundle. Apparently, I incorrectly used the esxcli command to upgrade my host. Thanks to William, I found out a bunch of other VIBs were also not properly upgraded yet. If you are doing a full upgrade, make sure you ...
I’m going to take a big risk here by trying to address the topics Availability and Recoverability in a VCDX design. This is arguably both the most important and most challenging topic of any VCDX design. I would say VCDX candidates get grilled on meeting SLAs, RPO and RTO times the most during the mocks ...
I recently passed the Master Specialist exam for VMware Cloud on AWS and this guide contains all my study notes and resources I used during my preparation. VMware Cloud on AWS Master Specialist Exam overview The exam is a multiple choice exam with 34 questions which you need to finish in 60 minutes. The passing ...
First steps into VCDX6-NV Wow! This has been quite a journey. After I achieved my first VCDX on DCV, I was pretty soon looking at the VCDX6-NV blueprint and quietly developed the ambition of shooting for the double. I’m in the luxury position of working at ITQ so I didn’t have to convince anyone at ...
After upgrading to vRealize Operations Manager 7.5, my next task at hand was upgrading to vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) 4.1. I’m really looking forward to this release because it supports VMware Enterprise PKS and Kubernetes as a data source. Very cool! vRNI 4.1 What’s New! Martijn Smit recently made the move to the vRealize Network ...
It was time to upgrade the operations management layer of my homelab environment. This includes an upgrade to vRealize Operations Manager 7.5. vRealize Operations Manager 7.5 What’s New! vROps 7.5 introduces a lot of exciting new features, including: vSAN-aware performance optimization Return of the allocation model Identify orphaned (or “zombie”) virtual disks with reclaimable capacity ...
I’m running a fully nested homelab with a four-node vSAN Cluster. When trying to patch my vSphere environment using VMware Update Manager (VUM), my remediation pre-check fails because the vSAN Health Services are reporting an error. This short blogpost explains how to silence a vSAN Health Check: Since the ESXi servers are nested VMs, the ...
In my previous blogpost, I explained how to remove a failed PKS cluster by removing the BOSH deployment using the BOSH CLI. Removing the BOSH deployment does not remove the NSX-T objects however. Manually deleting these NSX-T objects using the GUI is prohibited because these objects are supposed to be managed by PKS and are ...
