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 ...
When I tried to delete a failed PKS cluster in my homelab, I was presented with an error message, and there was no way to delete the cluster with the command pks delete-cluster [CLUSTERNAME] Following some of the Pivotal troubleshooting instructions, I was able to use the BOSH CLI to eventually delete the cluster by ...
Introduction In my homelab, I’m currently running a fully nested VMware environment in a single box. With the necessary tweaking and tuning, and thanks to fast NVME SSD storage, I can quite comfortably run 6 ESXi hosts concurrently. 4 Nodes with vSAN are running the management cluster (non-stop), and two 2-node clusters with NFS storage (provided ...
This is just a quick blogpost on a small issue I encountered during a VMware Validated Design (VVD) deployment. As part of the VVD deployment, all ESXi hosts need to be added to Active Directory. This allows for Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) over the ESXi hosts.. Following the planning and preparation guidelines, the customer nicely ...
Introduction I am currently deploying a VMware Validated Design for SDDC at a customer, with the addition of vRealize Network Insight. This blogpost explains how to use the Certificate Generation Utility for VMware Validated Design for Software-Defined Data Center (CertGenVVD utility) to replace the default SSL certificate of the vRNI Platform Appliance. CertGenVVD is a command-line utility ...
Nested homelab and NSX-T I recently published a blogpost about my fully nested VMware homelab.After completing a beta NSX-T Install, Configure and Manage course, I was keen on adding NSX-T to the mix. The beauty of NSX-T is that it is not hard coupled to vCenter Server. By simply adding another (nested) ESXi host to ...
Conceptual, RCARs and AMPRS … What? Today I gave a very quick crash course on the conceptual design portion of a VMware design, RCARs and AMPRs to a couple of co-workers at ITQ who are taking a VCAP exam on VMware EMPOWER next week.I decided to do a blogpost on this topic. So if you ...
DHPA TechFest 2018 I was invited to talk at the DHPA TechFest 2018. The DHPA foundation is a collaboration between market-leading hosting and cloud providers in The Netherlands. DHPA TechFest is not your regular IT event. It is called an IT festival by the organization with the tagline “work hard, play hard”. Besides several technical ...
Nested homelab introduction I was chatting with someone the other week about homelab setups. The old debate of running on physical hosts vs. nested came up. I am running a completely nested homelab with stretched vSAN, NSX-v, et cetera and as a follow-up to that conversation I was having, I decided to do a short ...
