Random Technology thoughts from an Irish Virtualization Geek (who enjoys saving the world in his spare time).
In Part 1 of this post I covered setup of the environment, creating the nested host VMs themselves and configuring kickstart. Basically we did everything in purple in this workflow. In this post I'll cover the last three steps required to get these nested hosts deloyed and prepped for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) bringup or... Continue Reading →
Update: I decided to revise this post as despite it showing the kickstart aspect pretty well, I felt it didnt showcase the use of multi-threading as well as it could have. As a more tangible use case for my recent post on reusing functions in multi-threaded PowerShell scripts I thought I'd share some recent work... Continue Reading →
LifeOfBrianOC and I recently had cause to build out some new lab infrastructure to host nested ESXi VMs. As part of that build we wanted to be able to deploy identical nested testbeds i.e multiple testbeds, each with their own set of nested hosts and supporting infrastructure, each of which would use the same VLAN... Continue Reading →
So I finally got the time and opportunity to start contributing to this great initiative. I've done lots of work with and around PowerVCF before, but never actually contributed code. Thats changed with this release. Hurrah! In my spare time, I've been doing a lot of PowerShell development on internal tooling used to prepare for... Continue Reading →
It’s been an interesting few months working on the just released VMware Validated Design 6.0. It’s a BIG release. Every component in the management stack has had a major version change and to add to that we completely changed the operating model from the 5.x days. Starting with VMware Validated Design 6.0, we are now... Continue Reading →
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